Bids opened for contract to design 111km part from Kuwait Metropolis to Saudi border.
KUWAIT’s Central Company for Public Tenders (CAPT) has opened 4 monetary bids for a 12-month contract tendered by the Public Authority for Roads & Transportation (PART) to offer design companies for a 111km railway between Kuwait Metropolis and the border with Saudi Arabia.
It will type the northern part of the formidable railway mission being promoted by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which might see over 2000km of recent traces constructed at a value of over $US 200bn to attach Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Oman.
In accordance with native media, Proyapi Engineering and Consulting of Turkey made the bottom bid of Dinars 2.47m ($US 8.15m) for the contract, whereas China Railway Firm supplied Dinars 6.77m. The opposite bidders have been Sener of Spain (Dinars 8.82m) and Systra Turkey (Dinars 9.73m).
9 corporations had sought to prequalify for the contract, however 5 have been excluded. Design and consultancy work is because of be accomplished inside 12 months, after which tenders shall be issued for development work.
PART vice-president, Ms Haifa Al-Jaralla, says that tendering has been expedited following conferences between Kuwait’s minister of public works, Dr Noura Al-Mashaan, and Saudi Arabia’s minister of transport and logistics companies, Mr Saleh Al-Jasser, which included reviewing the feasibility for a brand new line between Kuwait Metropolis and Riyadh in Saudi Arabia.
Appointing the design advisor kinds the primary section of the railway mission, Al-Jarallah stated. The second section contains presenting the mission to traders and choosing an funding accomplice, with the third section focusing mission implementation which is predicted to take 30 months to finish.
The brand new railway to the Saudi border is among the largest tasks in Kuwait’s 2035 nationwide improvement plan, which goals to remodel the nation into a world industrial and financial hub. Kuwait’s portion of the GCC mission is predicted to be accomplished in late 2030.
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