Contractors have submitted bids for the deal to complete the expansion of the Al-Rayyan World Cup stadium in Qatar.

The 45,000-seat stadium will host group matches during football’s 2022 Fifa World Cup, and is expected to cost about QR1.3bn ($357m) to complete. The concept design was prepared by Germany’s Albert Speer & Partner (AS&P). The consultant is Denmark’s Ramboll and US-based Aecom is the project manager.

Qatar Foundation is developing the stadium, which will be located in Education City.

Other stadiums in Qatar are also seeing progress. In December 2015, a joint venture of the local Midmac Contracting Company and Austria’s Porr won the contract to build the Al-Wakrah stadium.

In July 2015, Doha awarded the first main construction contract for one of the new stadiums it plans to build for the World Cup. A joint venture of Italy’s Salini Impregilo and Cimolai, and the local Galfar Engineering was awarded a €770m ($850m) contract by the local Aspire Zone to build the Al-Bayt stadium in Al-Khor.

In April 2014, Qatar awarded the first World Cup stadium construction contract to a joint venture of Belgium’s Six Construct and Midmac Contracting Company. The estimated $300m deal involves upgrading the existing Khalifa stadium and increasing the seating capacity of the stadium to 60,000, from the current 45,000.