Contractors have submitted technical bids for package seven, eight and nine of Oman’s Batinah Expressway project.

The bidders for package 7 are:

• Consolidated Contractors Company (Athens-based)
• Gharbia Enterprises (local)
• Larsen & Toubro (India)
• Ozkar Construction Company (Turkey)
• Galfar Engineering & Contracting (local)
• Al-Watanyiah United Engineering & Company (local)
• Sezai Turkes Feyzi Akkaya (Turkey)
• Dogus (Turkey)
• Federici Sterling Batco (local)

For package 8 the bidders are:

• Consolidated Contractors Company (Athens-based)
• Gharbia Enterprises (local)
• Larsen & Toubro (India)
• Sezai Turkes Feyzi Akkaya (Turkey)
• Ozkar Construction Company (Turkey)
• Abu Hatim Company (local)
• Oman Shapoorji Construction (India)
• Federici Sterling Batco (local)
• Galfar Engineering & Contracting (local)
• Al-Watanyiah United Engineering & Company (local)
• Marmul Contracting & Trading (local)
• Simplex Infrastructures (India)
• Onur International (Turkey)

The bidders for package 9 are:

• Consolidated Contractors Company (Athens-based)
• Gharbia Enterprises (local)
• Larsen & Toubro (India)
• Abu Hatim Co (local)
• Federici Sterling Batco (local)
• Galfar Engineering & Contracting (local)
• Al-Watanyiah United Engineering & Company (local)
• Ozkar Construction Company (Turkey)
• Onur International (Turkey)
• Oman United Engineering (local)
• Simplex Infrastructure (India)

The Transport & Communication Ministry invited bids for the packages in July last year.

The contracts for the first six packages have already been awarded.

In December 2014, MEED reported that in August, India’s Nagarjuna Construction Company was awarded a $371.3m contract to build the retendered second package of the Batinah Expressway scheme.

While in 2013, another Indian firm Simplex Infrastructures won a $318m deal for package three, as well as India’s Larsen & Toubro (L&T), which was awarded a $353m contract for package four.

Also in 2013, Athens-based Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC) won a $322m contract for package six, while a joint venture led by the local Federici Stirling Batco secured a $345m deal for package five.

In 2012, the local Galfar Engineering & Contracting was awarded a $361m contract for the first package on the expressway project.

The new 265-kilometre-long Batinah Expressway, Oman’s biggest road scheme, will create the first dual four-lane motorway in the sultanate, and will link Muscat to the new Sohar port and the UAE border.