Kuwait receives bids for $473m College of Engineering and Petroleum

26 August 2010

Malaysian and local joint venture submit lowest bid

Kuwait University (KU) has 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 ($472.6m).

This was 4 per cent lower than the KD142.1m submitted by the second lowest bidder, a partnership of China Metallurgical Construction Corporation and the local Khalid Ali al-Kharafi & Brothers.

UAE-based Arabtec Construction and the local Combined Group Contracting Company submitted the third lowest bid with a price of KD154.9m.

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.

Malaysia’s Pembinaan and the local Al-Sager General Trading & Contracting was the low bidder

Scheduled for completion in 2014, the college will be divided into two buildings – one for male students, the other for female students.

The two buildings will contain separate laboratories, lecture halls, auditoriums, conference rooms, exhibition space, prayer rooms and faculty offices, while sharing a central library.

The contract was the first tender issued on the Sabah al-Salem campus, which will be located at Shadadiyah, 20km west of Kuwait City.

When completed, the integrated 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.

Kuwait University is also currently tendering a contract to build a faculty of arts and a faculty of education at the new campus. The university has prequalified 26 consortiums for the project and has set a submission date of 12 September (MEED 11:7:10).

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