Kuwait’s Central Tenders Committee (CTC) has approved the award of contracts worth a total of KD129.1m ($462.8m) for infrastructure packages at Kuwait University’s Sabah al-Salem campus.

CTC approval is the final stage before a formal contract award is made.

The latest CTC approval was for the award of a KD98m ($351m) contract to the local Copri Construction Enterprises for infrastructure packages A5 and B5 at Kuwait University’s new campus.

The infrastructure work will include the construction of service roads, secondary substations and car parks. Eight groups submitted bids for the infrastructure packages in December 2011. Copri’s KD98m bid was 1.2 per cent lower than the KD99.2m price submitted by the second-lowest bidder, the local Mohammed Abdulmoshin al-Kharafi & Sons Company.

The CTC also recently approved the award of a KD31.1m contract to the local Ahmadiah Trading & Contracting Company for infrastructure package B6 at the new campus. The B6 infrastructure package will involve upper floor car parking works, public shelters and various buildings in the Eastern part of the university development.

The new Sabah al-Salem university campus will be located at Shadadiyah, which is 20 kilometres west of Kuwait City. When completed, the campus will comprise more than 25 faculty buildings. It will include a 600-bed hospital, car parks with space for more than 32,000 vehicles, dormitories, sports facilities and auditoriums.

In October 2011, Kuwait’s CTC approved the award of two construction contracts worth a total of $1.2bn to build faculty buildings at the new Sabah al-Salem university campus.