Court blocks Acsa’s plans to transform airport car hire that would disqualify Imperial
Vehicle rental giant Imperial has grounded a plan to transform airport car hire. Handing the company a comprehensive victory in the High Court in Johannesburg‚ Judge Phillip Coppin said Airports Company SA’s (Acsa’s) attempt to exclude Imperial from its premises on empowerment grounds was unconstitutional. Tuesday’s judgment forces Acsa to scrap the request for bids it issued last September for 10-year car hire concessions at nine airports‚ comprising a total of 71 kiosks. Imperial‚ which operates the Europcar and Tempest car-hire businesses through 113 outlets‚ was awarded costs after Coppin rejected all but one of Acsa’s arguments. The judge said Acsa had been vague and evasive about how it had decided to allocate marks equally based on price and broad-based black economic empowerment (B-BBEE) requirements relating to ownership‚ supplier development and management control. Imperial told the judge it had operated airport car-hire outlets for 32 years and had a quarter of the countr...
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