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MDLIAN 7875
CONFIDENTIAL
Mm3 182/3
1091
CONFIDENTIAL
FM BTC HONG KONG
TO PRIORITY FCO
TELNO 292
OF 180912Z OCTOBER 91
INFO PRIORITY DTI, ECGD
91 HAC 121/4 (107
पर
DTI FOR ADAMS, PEP AND LOVE OT2
YRTELNO 209 BALFOUR BEATTY
SUMMARY
COP COPY Q DIST?
1. BALFOUR BEATTY HAVE BECOME A MAJOR CONTENDER FOR WORK ON THE
AIRPORT PROJECT. THEY HAVE VERY SIGNIFICANT INTERESTS AND PROSPECTS IN HONG KONG. MALWYN JONES, WHO IS TO SEE ANDREW BURNS ON 23 OCTOBER, IS EFFECTIVE AND IMPRESSIVE.
DETAIL
2. BALFOUR BEATTY'S CURRENT INTERESTS IN HONG KONG ARE AS FOLLOWS:
(I) AIRPORT PLATFORM. THEY LEAD ONE OF THE GROUPS WHO HAVE PRE- QUALIFIED. TENDER DOCUMENTS ARE EXPECTED TO BE AVAILABLE ON 8 NOVEMBER AND BIDS TO BE IN IN FEBRUARY 1992 AND WORK TO BEGIN IN MAY 1992. IN THEIR GROUP ARE HOCHTIEF (GERMANY), LEIGHTON (GERMANY/AUSTRALIA), FRANKI KIER (SUBSIDIARY OF BEAZAR ASIA RECENTLY BOUGHT BY BULFINGER BURGER OF GERMANY, RETAINING LINKS WITH BEAZAR UK NOW SUBJECT TO HANSON TAKE-OVER BID), DILLINGHAM (USA), OBAYASHI (JAPAN), HYUNDAI (KOREA), BLANKEVOORT (NETHERLANDS) AND DRAGOMAR (ITALY). THIS IS A VERY POWERFUL GROUP. INDEED I UNDERSTAND (IN CONFIDENCE) THAT THEY SCORED THE SECOND HIGHEST SCORE IN THE PRE-QUALIFICATION EXERCISE (THE KUMAGAI LED GROUP I BELIEVE WERE FIRST). I WILL BE TELEGRAPHING
VERY SHORTLY FULL DETAILS OF THE PRE-QUALIFICATIONS FOR THIS CONTRACT BUT THE MAIN OTHER BRITISH INTERESTS ARE A GROUP IN
WHICH COSTAIN/TRAFALGAR HOUSE/NISHIMATSU AND MORRISON KNUDSON HAVE EQUAL SHARES, WITH CHINA HARBOURS AND BALAST NEEDHAM ALSO INVOLVED, AND ANOTHER GROUP IN WHICH MOWLEM HAVE A SHARE, LED BY BOUYGUES/DRAGAGES OF FRANCE. CERTAINLY THE BALFOUR BEATTY
INTEREST IS AS SIGNIFICANT AS ANY OTHER FROM THE UK IN THIS
CONTRACT WORTH ROUGHLY POUNDS 750 MILLION.
(II) OTHER AIRPORT PROJECT INTERESTS. BALFOUR BEATTY WILL BE COMPETING FOR M AND E WORK, CABLING AND TRACK AND TRACK LAYING