It will take another year for Cidco to select the final bidder for the ambitious Rs 15,000-crore Navi Mumbai International Airport as the requests for qualification (RFQs) submitted by them are still pending at the project management committee (PMC) level.

“We have already shortlisted four bidders which are being scrutinised by the PMC. By next April, we will be able to select the final bidder,” an official at Cidco, which is the nodal implementing agency for the proposed airport, said.

Cidco had invited the global tenders for RFQ on February 5, 2014. The official said once the PMC completes the scrutiny, it will submit the report to CM Devendra Fadnavis and then it will go to the aviation ministry. “Once we get the clearance from the ministry, we will invite financial bids and by April 2016 the bidder will be selected and work will start,” the official said.

Earlier, Cidco had said it would invite financial bids or requests for proposal (RFPs) by August this year and the final bidder would be selected by October. Cidco received nine bids, out of which four have been shortlisted. The four companies include GMR Group, the GVK-led MIAL, Hiranandani Developers, along with Zurich Airport and Mia Infrastructure with Tata Realty and Infrastructure.