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GERMANY. Berlin Airports (Berliner Flughaefen) today launched a major leasing drive for retail, food & beverage and other service concessions at Berlin Brandenburg International (BBI) Airport, which opens on 30 October 2011. It is publicising the opportunity to the trade via The Moodie Report, and through the Official Journal of the European Union, where full details appear.
The new BBI airport is being built on the site of Berlin Schoenefeld Airport, and will handle all traffic currently flying through the city’s three airports: Schoenefeld, Tegel and Tempelhof. Between 22 and 25 million passengers will use BBI initially, with a peak capacity planned of 40 million passengers a year.
In total, around 150 units covering more than 20,000sq m will be leased to retailers, caterers and other service providers. Within this, about 120 units will be located airside, and about 30 units landside.
There will be around 3,000sq m dedicated to duty free/duty paid retailing, split between two walk-through outlets and two units in the pier areas.
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Face of the future: Berlin Brandenburg International will become the gateway to Germany’s capital in October 2011 (Photo: ©gmp Architekten) |
Initially, Berlin Airports is beginning with the pre-qualifying process for duty free and duty paid concessions. The leasing process for food & beverage begins at the end of April, while other retail and services come to market in August.
Seven-year duty free contract
The duty free/duty paid contract will run for seven years and will be operated as a straight concession. Berlin Airports told The Moodie Report it plans to appoint one exclusive operator for this contract, and added that it was keen to attract a strong list of international travel retailers to the process. Gebr Heinemann currently operates duty free at Berlin’s major airports.
The airports group said it expects to finalise an operator for the key duty free/duty paid contract by the end of 2009, and make decisions on all its key commercial contracts by mid-2010.
In each case there will be pre-qualification, followed by Requests for Proposals, a short-listing of leading bidders and a final negotiation to choose a winner.
Berlin Airports said it aims to bring together a “high-quality offer that exceeds customers’ expectations”. It also said it aims to attract strong local brand and companies to the airport as business partners.
On the process, it added: “A project office has been established that will implement a graduated three-step leasing process for each industry package. The project office should be contacted by all candidates. After successful prequalification, the prospective clients are invited to tender for appropriate areas. Afterwards negotiations will be held with selected bidders. Berlin Airports has assigned the international management consultancy AT Kearney to operate the overall leasing process. The decision on all contracts will be taken solely by Berlin Airports.”
Full details of deadlines, other requirements and the planned leasing proceedings are published today in the Official Journal of the European Union.
For more details contact:
Flughafen Berlin-Schönefeld GmbH
Non Aviation Management
Projektbüro BBI Non Aviation
Flughafen Schönefeld
12521 Berlin
E-Mail: pb-bbi-na@berlin-airport.de
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