CONFIDENTIAL
FM BTC HONG KONG
TO PRIORITY DTI
TELNO OTTER 81
OF 18120OZ APRIL 90
INFO PRIORITY FCO
CONFIDENTIAL
Mark
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MDLIAN 4941
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PADS
FOR ADAMS, HEAD OF PEP
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MY TELNO OTTER 75: AIRPORT PROJECT
SUMMARY
+KC 18212
RECEIVED IN REG
26 APR 1990
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1. AN ANNOUNCEMENT ON THE AWARDING OF THE MASTER PLAN CONSULTANCY APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN DELAYED. THE OMENS FOR SIGNIFICANT BRITISH PARTICIPATION DO NOT LOOK GOOD.
DETAIL
2. THE CONTENDERS WERE EXPECTING THE MASTER PLAN CONSULTANCY TO BE AWARDED ON 17 OR 18 APRIL BUT NOW UNDERSTAND THERE WILL BE A FURTHER DELAY, POSSIBLY OF SEVERAL WEEKS, AND BELIEVES THERE IS DISAGREEMENT AT SECRETARY LEVEL WITHIN THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT.
3. THE SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST OF 13 APRIL CARRIED A PROMINENT REPORT SAYING THAT THE PARSONS GROUP OF THE USA (WHICH INCLUDES IN ITS SUPPORTING TEAM MOTT MACDONALD AND SCOTT WILSON KIRKPATRICK OF THE UK) WERE THE CHOSEN GROUP.
4. THE BECHTEL LED GROUP, WHICH INCLUDES HALCROW OF THE UK, SAY THEY ARE NOT CONCERNED ABOUT THIS REPORT WHICH THEY BELIEVE TO BE INACCURATE. THEY THINK THAT THE TECHNICAL COMMITTEE HAS RECOMMENDED THEM, BUT THAT THERE IS NOW DISAGREEMENT AT THE COMMITTEE OF SECRETARIES (THOSE FOR ECONOMIC SERVICES: WORKS: PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT AND LANDS: AND TRANSPORT, AS WELL AS THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY). BECHTEL SAY THAT THEIR PRESENTATION WAS WELL RECEIVED, THAT THEY BELIEVE THEIR PRICE IS RIGHT (THEY HAVE BEEN TOLD IN CONFIDENCE THAT THE BIDS RANGE FROM HKD90 MILLION TO HKD200 MILLION: THAT THEY SUBMITTED TWO BIDS FOR DIFFERENT TYPES OF WORK, THE LOWER OF WHICH WAS HKD108 MILLION: AND THAT THE PARSON'S BID WAS SUBSTANTIALLY THE MOST EXPENSIVE OF ALL.). THEY HAVE HAD SEVERAL SIGNALS HOWEVER THAT THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT DOES NOT FAVOUR HALCROW, LARGELY CAND IF SO VERY UNFAIRLY SURELY) BECAUSE OF
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