After rejecting the other competitive bidder, the government allegedly outsourced the Islamabad International Airport to its preferred foreign consortium.
As part of a new $7 billion loan program, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recommended transferring control of Pakistani airports to the private sector for the first time.
Danish Janjua told The Express Tribune that his group was denied arbitrary access to the public-private partnership (PPP) project at Islamabad International Airport.
He claimed that his consortium team made it to the designated room for tender submission near Karachi International Airport on time, even though they had to go through lengthy security checks after a suicide attack about 14 to 15 hours before tender submission time ended at 3 p.m. on Monday.
He claimed that upon arrival, the consortium team was led to the waiting room and given the impression that tender documents were being processed. The team was informed later, at 3:05 p.m., that the deadline for submitting documents had passed.
In order to be eligible to participate in the bidding process, the consortium previously submitted Rs1.5 billion. It put in a lot of effort for seven to eight months to get ready for the tender.
In this regard, the consortium filed a written complaint against arbitrary exclusion from the bidding process with the director general of airport service at the Pakistan Airport Authority (PAA) in Karachi.
