The Great Manmade River Authority (GMRA) is planning to award in mid-January the fourth- phase contract on the Great Manmade River (GMR) project. Eleven groups submitted bids for the contract in August. A company identified as China's Sinohydrois understood to be the frontrunner having submitted a bid of about $600 million - some $400 million less than the next lowest bid (MEED 29:8:03).
The selected contractor will procure, supply and install 620 kilometres of pipeline, pumping stations and storage tanks. The pipeline system will have capacity of 250,000 cubic metres a day of water and provide drinking water from an underground aquifer at Ghadames to over 1.25 million people living in Zauara, near the Tunisian border, Zawiya and small towns along the course of the pipeline. Water will also be used for irrigation.
Construction of the western network is expected to take 42 months. The consultants for phase 4 are the local Engineering Consultancy Office for Utilities (ECOU) and France's Safege (MEED 3:1:03).
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