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25 February 2014, 5:43 GMT | By Iliana Foutsitzis
Kuwait’s Public Works Ministry issues tender for renovation of Hadiya and Riqqa sewage networks
Kuwait’s Public Works Ministry has tendered renovation works for the twelfth phase of the Hadiya and Riqqa sewage network.
The bid submission deadline is 15 April.
A total of 11 local companies have been prequalified. They are:
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Al-Rua General Trading and Contracting Company
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Burhan International Construction Company
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Combined Group Contracting Company
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Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC)
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Green Line General Trading and Contracting Company
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KCC Engineering & Contracting Company
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Kharafi National Company
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Kuwait Company For Process Plant Construction & Contracting
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Mahmoud Behman General Trading & Contracting Company
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Mohammed Abdulmohsin Al-Kharafi General Trading & Contracting Company
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Musaed Saleh & Sons Company
Previous sewage renovation work in the Hadiya and Riqqa areas was completed by Kuwait’s Copri Construction Enterprise, which was awarded an $11.7m engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract in 2009.
Kuwait invites prequalification for desalination plant
25 February 2014, By Andrew Roscoe
First phase of new Doha desalination plant will have a capacity of 50 million imperial gallons a day
Kuwait’s Ministry of Electricity and Water (MEW) has invited companies to prequalify for the contract to build a new reverse osmosis (RO) desalination plant at Doha.
The MEW has invited companies to submit prequalification documents by 6 March for the 50 million imperial gallon-a-day (MIGD) first phase of the Doha desalination plant. The project will be tendered as a standard engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract.
This is the second time that the MEW has held a prequalification process for the project. The ministry first invited firms to prequalify for the scheme in April 2012 and had planned to issue tender documents for the project in April 2013. However, due to the environmental impact studies taking longer than expected, the project had been delayed. The MEW is intending to issue tender documents before the end fo April and award the construction contract before the end of 2014.
The new Doha desalination plant will also have a second phase, which will also involve installing a 50 MIGD component, resulting in the plant having a total capacity of 100 MIGD. The MEW is planning to tender the second phase in 2015.
The project is part of Kuwait’s efforts to expand its desalination capacity to cope with increasing demand from rapid population growth.
In addition to the Doha EPC scheme, Kuwait’s Partnerships Technical Bureau (PTB) is moving ahead with several major independent water and power projects (IWPP), which will contain major desalination components.
In December, the final project agreements were signed on the Al-Zour North IWPP. The project company set up to develop the IWPP, which is 40 per cent owned by the consortium of the UK/French GDF Suez, Japan’s Sumitomo Corporation and local Abdullah Hama al-Sagar & Brothers, awarded South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) and France’s Sidem the $1.4bn contract to build the Al-Zour North scheme.
HHI will build the gas-fired 1,500MW, combined-cycle power plant, while Sidem will build the 107 million gallon-a-day (g/d) desalination component of the Al-Zour project. The consortium is scheduled to complete the construction of the IWPP in the fourth quarter of 2016.
When financial close for the Al-Zour North IWPP is reached, the PTB and the MEW will push ahead with the next phase of the Al-Zour development, Al-Zour North 2 IWPP. In June last year, the PTB invited companies to express interest in the second phase of the Al-Zour scheme, which will have similar scope and the same power and water desalination capacities as the first phase.
The PTB and MEW are also planning to oversee the development of an IWPP at Al-Khiran, for which the first phase will have a power generation capacity of 1,500MW and a water desalination capacity of 125 MIGD. Developers were invited to submit expressions of interest (EoI) in December.
24 February 2014, By Colin Foreman
Contract signing for $3.3bn-plus deal expected in early March
Qatar Railways Company (Qatar Rail) has issued conditional letters of award to the two contracting groups competing for the estimated QR12bn-plus ($3.3bn-plus) deal to build Doha Metro’s Gold Line.
The letters will give contractors a final chance to submit their best commercial offers ahead of an expected award in early March.
The two groups competing for the contract are:
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Aktor (Greece)/Yapi Merkezi (Turkey)/STFA (Turkey)/Larsen & Toubro (India)/Aljaber Engineering (local)
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Hochtief (Germany)/Al-Jaber Trading (local)/Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC) (Athens-based)/Marbu Contracting Company (local)/Lusail Hochtief (local/Germany)
Firms submitted fresh prices at the end of last year. Bids were originally submitted in early 2013, but after several months of evaluating bids, Qatar Rail decided to seek revised prices after it reduced the scope of some parts of the Doha metro scheme, including the Gold Line, so it could concentrate on the key elements of the network it needs in place for the 2022 Fifa World Cup.
Despite the reduction in scope, the Gold Line is the largest contract to be tendered for Doha Metro. Valued at more than QR12bn, it is considerably more than the estimated QR8bn deals awarded for the Red Line North, Red Line South and Green Line in May last year.
Doha Metro was one of the region’s most active projects for contract awards last year. In late May and early June, Qatar Rail awarded construction deals for underground sections and two stations.
The estimated QR8bn Red Line South underground sections construction package were awarded to the consortium of the local/French QDVC, South Korea’s GS Engineering & Construction, and the local Darwish Engineering.
A team of Austria’s Porr, Saudi Binladin Group and the local HBK Contracting Company won the estimated QR8bn contract to build the underground sections for the Green Line.
The estimated QR8bn deal for the Red Line North underground sections was secured by a consortium of Italy’s Impregilo, South Korea’s SK Engineering & Construction and the local Galfar al-Misnad Engineering & Contracting.
South Korea’s Samsung C&T, Spain’s OHL and Qatar Building Company won the estimated QR4bn contract to build two major stations at Msheireb and Education City.
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