Oman’s Regional Municipalities and Water Resources Ministry has received bids for a major sewerage contract in the Wilyat of Ibri in northwest Oman.

The ministry received 19 bids from 11 contractors on 20 January. The project involves building a sewage treatment plant and sewage network system for Ibri.

The local Amrouni International Construction submitted the low bid of RO9.7m ($25m). The price was 33 per cent lower than the RO14.5m price submitted by the second lowest bidder, the local Al-Ansari Trading Enterprise.  Al-Ansari also submitted a second offer of Ro14.6m. This was followed by the local Towell Infrastructure Project’s bid of RO15m.

The project is part of the sultanate’s efforts to upgrade its sewerage and wastewater infrastructure.

In May 2013, Oman’s Haya Water awarded a RO26.7m ($70m) contract to Athens-based Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC) to carry out a water reuse project in the Qurum and Ilam areas of Bausher in Muscat governorate.

The 30-month contract covers the construction of 40 kilometres of sewer pipes, 66km of lateral pipes and 10km of treated effluent irrigation channel. The project also includes the design and construction of 13 minor network pumping stations, with flow rates ranging from 3-120 litres a second, as well as rising mains that will take effluent to a gravity sewer network.