Kerala, India. The airport is the fourth international airport in Kerala.
Kannur International Airport is expected to be operational by 2015.
The Government of Kerala in its order GO (MS)No.2/98/Tran on 17 January 1998, accorded sanction for setting up Kannur International Airport and appointed Kerala Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (KINFRA) as the nodal agency for its implementation. KINFRA engaged EMA Unihorn (India) Pvt. Ltd., Gurgaon as a consultant and they submitted their techno economic feasibility report in 2000, which was updated in 2005. This was submitted to the Government of India.
The proposal for the development of the Kannur International Airport received in-principle clearance from the Ministry of Civil Aviation in February 2008 and final approval later. The project will be implemented on a public–private partnership (PPP) basis and on a build-own-operate (BOO) model.
On 9 August 2012, STUP consultants was selected as the project consultant after submitting a winning bid of INR145 million.[3] On 3 September 2012, Kannur International Airport Ltd (KIAL) announced that it had issued a show-cause notice STUP Consultants. KIAL stated that the consultant had violated Request for Proposal (RFP) conditions. Mir Projects and Consultants, who had bid earlier bid for the consultancy contract, moved the Kerala High Court seeking termination of the contract on the grounds that STUP Consultants and Darashaw was a blacklisted company, and blacklisted companies were not eligible according to the project tender.
KIAL subsequently stated that the reply to the show-cause notice was unconvincing and that STUP Consultants was guilty of violating the tender requirements. The company was found to have been blacklisted by the Punjab Government in 2007. The order was set aside by the Punjab and Haryana High Court but the company was blacklisted again in 2009. The contract was terminated and KIAL announced that it would call for new bids at a later date.
KIAL's decision to terminate the consultancy agreement with STUP Consultants was uphelf by the Kerala High Court on 1 November 2012. Justice T.R. Ramachandran Nair dismissed the writ petition filed by STUP and observed that he did not find any reason to interfere with the KIAL's decision.
In the KIAL director board meeting on 15 November 2012, a new project consultant - a consortium led by the Hong-Kong-based AECOM Asia Private Ltd. and including AECOM India Private Ltd. and CRISIL - was appointed.[7][8] They won the consultancy by bidding INR138 million.
In January 2013, KIAL floated a Request for Qualification (RFQ) document to determine the eligible firms for the detailed designing, earthworks and concrete works of the airport. The value of the tender is INR7 billion and covers the detailed designing, engineering, procurement and construction of earth work and pavements for the runway, basic strips, turning pads, taxiways, apron, access roads, drainage system, related retaining structures, formation platforms for landside facilities and design, supply, installation, testing and commissioning of airfield ground lighting system, visual aids for navigation, and bird hazard reduction system.The response to the RFQ by vendors was lodged by 14 February 2013.
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