Indian’s GET Power has put in the low bid for a contract being tendered by the Oman Electricity Transmission Company (OETC) to upgrade a grid station and install a connecting transmission line.

The upgrade scheme will convert the current grid station to 220kV capacity and will see a 220kV associated transmission line put in place.

The tender was launched in May. A total of ten bids have been submitted to perform the engineering procurement and construction (EPC) project:

• GET Power (India) – OMR 14.25m ($37m)
• Ozdil Enerji Taahhut (Turkey) – OMR 14.99m
• ICOMM Tele Limited (India) – OMR 17.44m
• Larsen & Toubro (India) – OMR 17.77m
• Simplex Infrastructures (India) – OMR 18.41m
• Bahwan Engineering Company (Oman) – OMR 18.68m
• Oman National Engineering & Investment Company (Oman) – OMR 18.94m
• National Contracting Company (Saudi Arabia) – OMR 19.46m
• ABB (Switzerland) – OMR23.86m
• Galfar Engineering & Contracting (Oman) – OMR 31.99m

Eight companies were prequalified, but opted not to bid:

• Sunir (Iran)
• KEC Global (Austria)
• Danway Electrical & Mechanical Engineering (UAE)
• Kalpataru Power Transmission (India)
• China National Electric Wire & Cable Import & Export Corporation (China)
• Hasan Juma Backer Trading & Contracting Company (Oman)
• Imco Engineering & Construction Company (Kuwait)
• Areva (France)