ANAC approves call for bids for the 7th round and sets the auction for August 18

The National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) approved, on June 6, the drafts of the notice and contracts for the 7th round of airport concessions. Fifteen airports located in the North, Southeast and Center-West regions of the country will be auctioned in clusters. Congonhas Airport, the most attractive airport for investors, leads the cluster SP-MS-PA-MG, which includes 11 assets. The auction was scheduled to take place at B3, in São Paulo, on August 18.

Besides the SP-MS-PA-MG cluster, the General Aviation and North Clusters II will also be auctioned. In all, the concessions of the 7th round reach 15.8% of domestic passengers handled in the Brazilian air transport market. In 2019, there were more than 30 million boardings and landings.

Check out the main highlights of each cluster:

- SP-MS-PA-MG Cluster: composed of the airports of Congonhas, in São Paulo (SP); Campo Grande, Corumbá and Ponta Porã, in Mato Grosso do Sul; Santarém, Marabá, Parauapebas and Altamira, in Pará; Uberlândia, Uberaba and Montes Claros, in Minas Gerais. The minimum initial contribution is R$740.1 million. The estimated value for the entire contract is R$11.6 billion.

- General Aviation Cluster: formed by the airports Campo de Marte, in São Paulo (SP) and Jacarepaguá, in Rio de Janeiro (RJ). The minimum initial contribution is R$ 141.4 million. The estimated value for the entire contract is R$ 1.7 billion.

- North Cluster II: integrated by the airports of Belém (PA) and Macapá (AP). The minimum initial contribution is R$ 56.9 million. The estimated value for the entire contract is R$ 1.9 billion.

Initially, Santos Dumont Airport (RJ) was also part of the 7th round of the concession, but in compliance with the guidelines of the National Civil Aviation Secretariat (SAC), of the Ministry of Infrastructure (Minfra), the Rio de Janeiro terminal was excluded from the current bidding process and the configuration of the clusters was reformulated.

The legal documents (public notice and contracts) of the 7th round of airport concessions were approved without recommendations by the Federal Audit Court (TCU) on June 1. The bidding was qualified under the Investment Partnerships Program (PPI) by CPPI Resolution No. 145, of December 2, 2020, and by Decree No. 10,635, of February 22, 2021.

Rules for the 7th round

The 7th round of airport concessions proposes flexible regulations, compatible and proportional to the size of each airport in relation to tariffs, investments and quality of services, as already occurred in the 5th and 6th rounds. The service level requirement will be proportional to the size of the airport, always aiming at the best service to the user.

In this round, the same bidder will be able to bid for all three clusters. The minimum requirement for technical qualification of the airport operator will be the proof of experience in processing, in at least one of the last five years, of one million passengers for the North II Cluster and five million passengers for the SP-MS-PA-MG clusters. In the case of the General Aviation Cluster, the passenger processing must be at least 200 thousand passengers or, alternatively, 17 thousand aircraft movements (landings and take-offs).

To learn more about Round 7, go to the page for this stage of the airport concessions program on ANAC’s portal (available only in Portuguese).