FG invites investors for RFQ for concession of Calabar-Kaduna Free Trade Zones

By Uthman Salami

Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) has invited investors for the Submission of Response To Request for Qualification (RFQ) for the Concession of the Calabar and Kano Free Trade Zones.

This invitation was contained in a circular posted by BPE yesterday.

This comes on the heels of the success recorded in Lekki Free Trade Zone harbouring the Dangote Group’s Refinery and Petrochemical Park and the Lekki Deep Sea Port that are scheduled for completion this year.

The FG through the National Council on Privatisation and the BPE alongside the Ministry of Trade and Investment and the Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority were inviting prospective investors to express interest by submitting responses to Request for Qualification to invest and operate and also manage the Calabar Free Trade Zone and the Kano Free Trade Zone as concessionaires, BPE revealed.

“The objective of the concession are to re-develop and rehabilitate the two zones significantly and increase their efficiencies by operating and managing them through professional and efficient management practices as world calls trade zones for a minimum of 25 years,” the post stated

The prospective investors should hand in five hard copies in response to the Request for Qualification and one digital copy in PDF, to be delivered with the names of the Prospective Investor boldly written  and addressed to the BPE no later than 25th May 2022, the Bureau explained.