Kuwait’s Ministry of Public Works (MPW) has selected the Kuwait Technical Consulting Bureau for the contract to study, design and supervise the maintenance work for the road network in Kuwait’s Kabad area.

It was ranked first among eight consultancies that submitted offers for the contract.

The firm emerged with the highest technical score and submitted what seems to be the fourth-highest price, based on the outcome of the bid evaluation published by the Central Tenders Committee (CTC).

In August, several groups have submitted a bid for the contract to build, upgrade and maintain the road that extends from North Kabad to Al-Salmi Road.

They include:

• Rawabi Kuwait general Contracting (local) / Sacyr Construction (Spain): $248.8m
• First Kuwaiti (local) /Cengiz Insaat (Turkey): $271.48m
• Khalid Ali Al-Kharafi & Bros. (local) / Metallurgical Corporation of China (China): $278.48m)
• Combined Group Contracting (local) / China First Highway Engineering Company (China): $280.86m)
• Al-Roumi General Trading & Contracting (local) / China State Construction Engineering Corporation (China): $303.38m)
• Arab Kuwait Contractors (local) / Arab Contractors “Osman Ahmed Osman & Co.” (Egypt): $305.25m
• Consolidated Contractors (Athens-based): $317.48m
• Larsen & Toubro (India): $328.12m
• Kolin Insaat (Turkey): $359.89m

Kuwait has awarded a total of $1.52bn-worth of road and street project contracts between January and August. This accounts for a third of the total contracts meant to be awarded for the full year 2016.

Road projects awarded during the year include the $956m infrastructure package for the South Al-Mutlaa City, the $324m road works from Saad Al-Abdulla to Buhaith, and the $256m contract for road works from the 5th Ring Road to the 6th Ring road on Al-Ghouse Street.

In terms of the value of road projects awarded this year, Kuwait trails Qatar, which recently awarded a $2.1bn contract for the construction of a 34km highway as part of the Al-Khor Expressway project.