Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2022-12-23
Buyer: Ministry of Transport and Communications
Country: MK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 60400000: Air transport services
Estimated value: 312420000 MKD
Submission deadline: 2023-01-19
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: PUBLIC CALL For submission of a request for granting financial support for introduction of a new destination/s from the airports in the Republic of North Macedonia to the airports in the ECAA/EU
. Subject of this public call is the granting of financial support to domestic and foreign air carriers for introduction of new routes to airports in the ECAA/EU.
exchange rate of the National Bank of the Republic of North Macedonia on the day of invoicing, per departing passenger, for passengers transported from the airport "St. Apostle Pavle" - Ohrid for the new destination.
The amount for the financial support can be reduced if it amounts to more than 50 percent of the amount of the lowest airport fees.
11. In order to qualify as an applicant for financial support, the air carrier should meet the following conditions:
- to have an operating license (OL) issued by an EU/ECAA member state in accordance with the regulations of the European Union for issuing operating licenses to air carriers,
- to submit a notarized statement that he will continue to operate the destination that is the subject of financial support even after the end of the financial support period, for a period at least equal to the time he received financial support for it, while otherwise that he agrees to return to the provider of financial support all funds that were paid for that destination during the period of granting financial support.
The financial support will be granted in accordance with the criteria for ranking the new destinations in the following order:
- attractiveness of the airport, that is, the airport with  largest number of passengers served in 2019 according to the Report of the International Council of Airports (ACI-Airport Council International), in the case of a submitted request for the same destination; and
In case of submission of equal requests in accordance with the ranking criteria of the destination, the first-come, first-served principle will be applied when submitting a request for granting financial support.
After the ranking of the new destinations, the Commission calculates the needed funds for each new destination in accordance with the planned costs that the air carrier must have entered in the Operational Plan submitted with the Request and determines the ranking list of new destinations and proposes the selection of beneficiaries of financial support.
14. Any new destination introduced for the period for which the financial support is  being granted, which is subject of financial support and will be operated from "Skopje International Airport", must not been served so far by regular air transport in the last two IATA seasons from/to "International Airport Skopje".15. Each new destination introduced for the period for which the financial support is granted, which is subject of financial support and will be operated from the airport "St. Apostol Pavle" - Ohrid, must not been served so far by regular air transportation in the last two IATA seasons from/to the airport "St. Apostle Pavle" - Ohrid and from "Skopje International Airport".
- 7 euros in denars equivalent at the middle exchange rate of the National Bank of the Republic of North Macedonia on the day of invoicing, per departing passenger, for passengers transported from "Skopje International Airport" to the new destination and

Eligibility requirements: 11. In order to qualify as an applicant for financial support, the air carrier should meet the following conditions: - to have an operating license (OL) issued by an EU/ECAA member state in accordance with the regulations of the European Union for issuing operating licenses to air carriers, - to have transported, i.e. served at least 10 million passengers in 2019, - to have made a profit of at least 25.000.000,00 (twenty-five million) euros in 2019 and - to submit a notarized statement that he will continue to operate the destination that is the subject of financial support even after the end of the financial support period, for a period at least equal to the time he received financial support for it, while otherwise that he agrees to return to the provider of financial support all funds that were paid for that destination during the period of granting financial support.

Award value: 312420000