TNAG-2409-FCO40-3503-Hong-Kong-Port-and-Airport-Development-Strategy-(PADS)-Brit-1992 — Page 203

OVERMENT HOUSE HONG KONG.

NED 66 MAY 92 16:31

PG.03

CONFIDENTIAL

"The

Government

has

applied

the

same rigorous

assessment

procedures

tenderers

Programme contract.

for

this

to each of

critically

the four international

important Airport

Core

assessment

proposals,

"There has been

which has

a stringent and

included

the

scrupulously fair

tenderers' prices and

their experience in suspension bridge

construction, and their ability to complete the contract on

time to the standards we require," said Mr Yeung.

The Tsing Ma Bridge Will carry both road and rail

traffic and will be one of the world's longest suspension

bridges, with a central span of 1,377m. It is the first and

biggest of five major contracts to be let for the Lantau

Fixed Crossing, which is a crucial section of the road and

rail links to the new airport at Chek Lap Kok.

for

Work must start under the terms of the contract within

four weeks, and it is scheduled

completion and

commissioning within five years.

"The Central Tender Board is satisfied that the

Anglo-Japanese consortium, which submitted the second

lowest tender last December, is the best placed of the four

contestants to undertake the Tsing Ma contract," said Mг

Yeung.

"It

will bring to Hong Kong the international

construction expertise needed at the most cost-effective price and with the greatest assurance of project completion

on time.