Dubai’s Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) has received bids for the contract to build a bridge that will take Al-Khail Road over a new waterway connecting Business Bay and Meydan.

The lowest bids were submitted by the local Dutco Group. It submitted two offers, one of AED670m ($183m) and another of AED892m.

The second lowest bids were submitted by the local Al-Naboodah Contracting. It submitted bids of AED848m and AED1.165bn.

The other bidder was Turkey’s Mapa Gunal with bids of AED1.167bn and AED1.485bn.

Once the project is completed, Al-Khail Road will bridge a section of canal linking the Dubai Water Canal or Dubai Creek Extension with a waterway that will run through the Meydan development.

The works involve the construction of road bridges together with excavation and marine works for the waterway.

The consultant is US-based Aecom.

Al-Khail is one of the major highways running through Dubai. It connects to Mohammed bin Zayed road in the Jebel Ali area to the south, and connects into the Dubai-Hatta/Oman road to the north.

The Al-Khail Road scheme is similar to works completed on Sheikh Zayed Road in 2016 for the Dubai Water Canal, although the bridge and excavation work for that project were executed as separate packages. The contractor for the bridge was Mapa Gunal and the contractor for the excavation and marine works was the local/Belgian Belhasa Six Construct.

Beijing-based China State Construction Engineering Corporation was the contractor for the bridges taking Al-Wasl Road and Jumeirah Beach Road across the Dubai Canal.

According to regional projects tracker MEED Projects, the RTA awarded more than $1.45bn of construction contracts in 2017. Overall, the agency has $5.57bn of ongoing projects in Dubai.