Oman receives bids for road dualisaton scheme

13 August 2014

UAE’s Ghantoot Transport & General Contracting submitted low bids for both road dualisation packages

Oman’s Transport & Communications Ministry has received bids for two major packages on the project to dualise the Adam to Thumrait road in the sultanate.

For the first package, the ministry received 17 prices from nine contractors, with most of the bidders submitting two offers.

The UAE’s Ghantoot Transport & General Contracting (GTGC) submitted the two lowest bids. Its lowest price was RO110m ($286m), which was 6 per cent lower than its alternative bid of RO117m.

India’s Simplex Infrastructures submitted the third-lowest bid of RO119m. The Indian contractor also submitted the fourth-lowest bid of RO125m.

The local Khalid bin Ahmed & Sons was the next bidder with a price of RO126.3m, which was closely followed by bids of RO126.6m and RO126.7m submitted by the local Galfar Engineering & Contracting and Athens-based Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC) respectively.

For the second package, the ministry received 13 offers from seven contractors.

GTGC was again the lowest bidder, submitting a price of RO88.5m, which was almost 3 per cent lower than the RO91m price submitted by CCC, the second-lowest bidder.

Galfar Engineering & Contracting submitted the third-lowest bid of RO95.9m, followed by a RO98.7m alternative offer from CCC. This was followed by a RO99.6m alternative price from GTGC.

The projects are part of the sultanate’s efforts to upgrade and expand its transport links. The ministry is also pushing ahead with plans to convert the Batinah Expressway from a dual road into a six-lane highway, three lanes in each direction. It recently awarded India’s Nagarjuna Construction Company a RO143m contract to build the second package of the expressway and has tendered packages 7, 8, 9 and 10 for the ambitious road project.

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