Kuwait’s Public Works Ministry has invited contractors to submit bids for a contract to build the headquarters for the Public Authority for Minor Affairs in Kuwait City.

Prequalified contractors have until the 8 August to submit bids for the deal to build and maintain the main building and car parking for the new headquarters building. The contract has an initial guarantee of KD435,000($1.5m).

The 15 prequalified contractors are all local. They are:

• Mohammed Abdulmoshin al-Kharafi & Sons
• Combined Group Contracting
• Al-Fulaij United Group General Trading & Contracting Company
• Kuwaiti General Trading & Contracting Company
• Boodai Construction Company
• Real Estate Construction & Fabrication Company
• Ahmadiah Contracting & Trading Company
• Kuwait Company for Process Plant Construction & Contracting
• Mushrif Trading & Contracting Company
• Arab Kuwait Contractors Company
• Burhan International Construction Company
• Canar Trading & Contracting Company
• Kharafi Construction Company
• Sadeem al-Kuwait General Trading & Contracting Company
• Bayan National Trading Company

The ministry recently awarded a $135.3m contract to the local Combined Group Contracting Company (CGC) to build intersections on the sixth-ring road serving the Jahra residential area, which is located about 30 kilometres northwest of Kuwait City (MEED 28:5:10).