Turkmenistan - Turkmenistan - Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games 2017 (HVO OTH-05)

Description

With a wealth of natural resources the ‘Stans’ are increasingly devoting significant budgets towards hosting, and bidding for, major sports events and other non-sporting events (e.g. Baku 2012 Eurovision Song Contest, Astana Expo 2017).  With support in-country at the highest political level, and limited domestic capability these events perhaps offer the greater business opportunities for companies with event delivery capability, and more limited opportunities around the delivery of the necessary infrastructure required. Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan are at the forefront of this movement with each country either hosting or bidding for a major event.

Turkmenistan has been investing to become the most popular destination in Central Asia for major sporting events. In 2017 Ashgabat will accommodate more than 5,000 athletes from 62 countries competing across 17 sports when it hosts the 5th edition of the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games. The Ashgabat Olympic Complex, estimated to cost around £3.5 billion, will host the Games across 10 competition venues including two indoor arenas, a velodrome, an indoor athletics facility, tennis centre and an aquatics centre. The Athletes' Village is set to accommodate around 12,000 beds once completed.  Although the Turkish company Polimeks is taking a significant role in delivering the infrastructure necessary to host the Games, UK companies have had success and will expect to win more business particularly from the estimated £250-300m operational budget.

Construction and infrastructure projects for the Games have already been commissioned but there will be opportunities in the areas of planning, facility management and games delivery in the run up to the games.

To a lesser and greater degree, across the Central Asia major sports events HVO, we expect to see the following opportunities accessible for UK companies: transport, security, event delivery (security, stewarding, training, event management, media signage, ticketing, screens, temporary overlay, crowd control, transportation and branding), hospitality and catering, and legacy.

Contract opportunities over the next 6 months; Torch & medal design and production; Brand & communication; Facility management; Professional services/cost management.

UKTI has appointed a dedicated Business Specialist from industry to identify business opportunities around AIMAG 2017 and to support UK companies to pursue these business opportunities.

The UKTI Global Sports Projects team in London is also on hand to speak to UK companies about this project, as well as other Global Sports opportunities.

High Value Opportunities (HVO) programme

The high value opportunities programme identifies large scale overseas projects offering the most value to UK Plc and aims to provide an intensive level of support to help UK businesses win contracts in and around these opportunities.

Opportunity closing date

30 June 2016

Value of contract

to be confirmed