Muharraq sewage tender open to bids

Bidding for the Build Own Operate (BOO) contract for the Muharraq sewage treatment plant in Bahrain has opened, according to the Ministry of Works.

A spokesman for the Ministry said the tender will close on October 28. A total of 16 pre-qualified consortiums have been invited to bid (see below for full list).

The contract is on a 25-year BOO scheme and is expected to be awarded by March or April next year, the spokesman said.

The sewage treatment plant will be located in the Muharraq region of the Kingdom and will process 90,000-100,000m3 per day which is expected to will increase to 160,000m3 within five years.

The Muharraq plant is the country’s first private wastewater scheme after the Ministry employed consultancies HSBC, Fichtner and Norton Rose to develop a programme of privatisation for the sanitary engineering sector.

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The assistant undersecretary for sanitary engineering, Khalifa Ebrahim Al Mansoor, had told Construction Week they hoped to also tender stage two of an upgrade to the Tubli waste water treatment plant by the end of the year.

“Stage one of the upgrade was the consultancy work and that has been completed by p2m Berlin,” he said.

“Stage two will increase the capacity to 350,000m3 a day and includes the construction, operation and maintenance of the plant.

“We are now in the process of preparing this and hopefully we will be ready to go to tender maybe by this end of this year.”

The pre-qualified consortia

1. Acciona Agua (Lead) and Kuwait Finance House
2. Aqualia Gestion (Lead), Four Winds Capital Management, Grupo FCC, Nesma Partners, Zero Waste Bluewater Bio, and Fomento De Contructiones Y Contratas (“FCC”)
3. Berlinwasser International (Lead) and Metito Utilities Limited
4. BiWater Construction Limited
5. Suez Environment – Degremont
6. Keppel Seghers Engineering Singapore Pte Ltd
7. Karafi National (Lead) and Severn and Trent International
8. Palm Water (Lead) and Water Leau
9. Saudi Bin Ladin (Lead), Tanqia FZC, and Passavant Roediger GmbH
10. Saudi Oger (Lead), Korea Water Resources Corporation, and Saumsung C&T
11. Sembcorp Industries Ltd
12. Sumitomo Corporation
13. United Utilities International Limited (Lead), Samsung Engineering Company Ltd plc, and Abu Dhabi investment Company PJSC, and Instrata Capital
14. Veolia Water
15. YTL Power International and Wessex Water
16. WTE Wassertechnik GmbH