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BRAZIL. Aeroporto Internacional de Belo Horizonte (BH Airport) has extended by three months the deadline for submissions for its master food & beverage tender at Tancredo Neves International. The moves comes amid strong international interest in the contract, with a number of bidders asking for more time to establish local partnerships.
As reported last week, BH Airport has called for responses to six tenders, principally in F&B. Package 7 is the largest concession, with four units covering 1,216sq m, including a food court, bar and full-service restaurants. The original RFP deadline was 28 August but this has now been moved to 28 November. The same extension applies to the airport’s VIP lounge in International Departures (Package 5), while the company has also just launched the tender for the VIP lounge in Domestic Departures.
BH Airport Commercial Director René Baumann told The Moodie Report: “We suddenly have a very strong participation in this process. For the master contract in F&B only, we have five international candidates. Some of them have asked us to give them time to find the right partner here.
“For the lounges we have the same situation. I’m particularly happy, because it’s time to raise the level to international standards.”
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The bid timetable for four of the packages (above) and the revised timetable for the master F&B and VIP lounge packages (below) |
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Decisions on these two extended RFPs should be made by mid-December, said the airport company, while for the remaining packages the bid deadline of 28 August applies, with a decision likely in September.
The packages in detail are:
Coffee & Press (Package 9)
Five units covering 799.57sq m
Terminal 1
Ground Floor – Airside area (114.83sq m)
First Floor – Airside Domestic (224.4sq m)
Terminal 2
Ground Floor – Landside area (84.73sq m)
First Floor – Airside Domestic (177.63sq m)
First Floor – Airside Domestic (197.98sq m)
VIP Lounge International Departures (Package 5)
One unit of 394.55sq m in Terminal 2 airside (International)
One unit of 583.15sq m in Terminal 1 airside (Domestic)
Catwalk Pub (Package 1)
One unit of 205.2sq in Terminal 1, ground floor landside
Hamburger Restaurant (Package 2)
One unit of 523.58sq m in T1 ground floor landside
Torrefacção Café and Bakery (Package 6)
One unit of 76.98sq m in T1 ground floor landside
Bar/Serviced Restaurants/Food Court (Package 7)
Four units covering 1,216.21sq m
Terminal 2
Departures Bar & Snacks concept
First Floor – Airside Domestic (134.38sq m)
Departures Serviced Restaurant & Full Kitchen
First Floor – Airside Domestic (342.8sq m)
Departure Food Court (Three concepts)
First Floor – Airside Domestic (400.34sq m)
Departures Serviced Restaurant & Full Kitchen
Second Floor – Airside International (338.69sq m)
Belo Horizonte handled 11 million passengers in 2014 and is Brazil’s fifth biggest airport.
BH Airport is a partnership between a consortium led by CCR and Flughafen Zürich, which won the 30-year concession to operate the facility in 2013.
Tancredo Neves International Airport is located in the municipality of Confins, in Belo Horizonte’s metropolitan area, some 38km to the north of the city. Said to be one of the most modern airports in Brazil, it is the main gateway to the State of Minas Gerais, which has a population of over 20 million.
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BH Airport is redesigning and redeveloping commercial across both terminals |
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