Kuwait University (KU) has extended the submission deadline to 19 September for a contract to build a faculty of arts and a faculty of education on the new $3bn Sabah al-Salem University campus.

This is the third time that the submission date has been extended. The original submission date for the project was 25 July. The tender has an initial guarantee of KD2.3m ($7.9m).

The 26 consortiums that have prequalified for the project are:

The university recently received bids from 13 consortiums for the contract to build the College of Engineering and Petroleum (Coep), which will be located at the new $3bn Sabah al-Salem campus.

A consortium of Malaysia’s Pembinaan and the local Al-Sager General Trading & Contracting was the low bidder with a price of KD136.4m.

Designed by the local Gulf Consult and US-based Cambridge Seven Associates, the new facility will include eight engineering departments, as well as the university’s department of architecture.

Scheduled for completion in 2014, the college will be divided into two buildings – one for male students, the other for female students. The contract was the first tender issued on the Sabah al-Salem campus, which will be located at Shadadiyah, 20km west of Kuwait City (MEED 26:8:10).