Bids due for Muscat wastewater package

07 June 2004
Bids are due by 19 July for the third package on the first phase of the Muscat Wastewater project. The deadline for bidding for the second package, covering the Bawshar wastewater collection system and treated effluent redistribution system, has been extended to 14 June from 31 May (MEED 14:5:04).

The scope of works for the third package covers the installation of a 53,000-cubic-metre-a-day sewage treatment plant at Al-Ansab and a control system for the entire project, which will cost an estimated $1,000 million. The Bawshar contract calls for construction of a main collector, a central pumping station and a secondary pumping station and connection of 18,000 properties to the network.

The client on the scheme is Oman Wastewater Services Company, a government-owned body slated for privatisation when the wastewater network becomes operational. The consultant is team of Lebanon's Khatib & Alamiwith Metcalf & Eddyof the US.

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