In an overwhelming response, 24 bidders have submitted their bids for the Commercial Operation, Maintenance of Terminal Building, Development and Operation of Cargo Facilities and Cityside Development of the Udaipur Airport in Rajasthan. The Government had invited bids for Commercial Operation, Maintenance of Terminal Building, Development and Operation of Cargo Facilities and Cityside Development of the airport. The last date for submitting bids was 24th January 2008.
IVRCL Infrastructure & Projects Ltd, Zoom Developers Pvt. Ltd, GMR Infrastructure ltd, Maytas Infrastructure, Gammon Infrastructure Projects Ltd, L&T Infrastructure-DPL-Unique Consortium, MSK Projects (India), Soma Enterprises ltd., Reliance Energy Ltd., Unitech Ltd., D.S. Constructions Ltd., Omaxe-Valecha JV, Oriental Structural Engineers Pvt. Ltd., Shyam Basic Infrastructure Projects (P) Ltd., Ansal Properties & Infrastructure Ltd., Atlanta Ltd., TRIL-Changi-Tata Power, Essar-Celebi-Vipul, Sew-DLP JV, ECC-DB Realty JV, ABL-Shristi-Galfar-SREI, SRS-ERA JV, Som Datt Builders Pvt. Ltd., and GVK-Leighton-ETA Consortium have expresssed their interest.
The Government has undertaken the modernization and up gradation of 35 non-metro airports by the year 2010. The cityside development of 25 such airports will be done through the Public Private Partnership (PPP) route in phases - the first of which are Amritsar and Udaipur. While Amritsar Airport received 23 bids, Udaipur Airport has received 24 bids.
The applications for Udaipur Airport were opened for evaluation on 28th January 2008.