The local Mechanical Engineering & Contracting Company (MECC) and Heavy Engineering Industries & Shipbuilding Company (Heisco) have submitted the lowest priced bids for two pipeline construction deals in Kuwait, worth more than $425m.

MECC submitted a bid of KD77.25m ($273.2m), beating rival proposals from six other local engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) firms for a deal to build a network of flowlines and associated works in the southeast of Kuwait.

Heisco submitted a price of KD42.9m ($157m) for a separate deal to build flowlines in the west of Kuwait, beating proposals from eight other firms.

Both sets of bids were submitted to state-upstream operator, Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) on 22 October bid round through the country’s Central Tenders Committee.