Dubai retenders Hassyan power and water station

17 November 2007
Dubai Electricity & Water Authority (Dewa) has retendered the contract for P station at Hassyan after receiving bids from three companies on 30 April which it says were too high.

According to a Dewa official, the prices submitted by the companies were too high.

The bidders were Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction, Hyundia Engineering & Construction and Hyundai Heavy Industries, all of South Korea.

Dewa issued a retender notice for phase one of the project to the bidders on 1 May. The deadline for new bids is 8 July. A new tender for phase two is expected to follow shortly.

The first phase of station P will have a capacity of 120 million gallons a day (g/d) of desalinated water and 1,500MW of power. The second phase of the plant will have the same power generation capacity and a desalination capacity of 100-120 million g/d (MEED 26:3:08).

A MEED Subscription...

Subscribe or upgrade your current MEED.com package to support your strategic planning with the MENA region’s best source of business information. Proceed to our online shop below to find out more about the features in each package.