Athens-based Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC) has submitted the lowest bid with a price of $202m for package 10 of the Batinah Expressway project in Oman.

The only other contender for package 10 was local firm Galfar Engineering and Contracting, which made an offer of $214.5m.

CCC had previously won a $322m contract for package six of the expressway project.

The client, Oman’s Transport & Communications Ministry (MOTC), has also opened the offers for packages seven, eight and nine.

Firms bidding for package seven include:

• CCC ($257)
• Galfar ($246m)
• Sezai Turkes Feyzi Akkaya Oman (local) ($228m)

Firms bidding for package eight are:

• CCC ($174m)
• Sezai ($165m)
• Galfar ($164m)

Contractors bidding for package nine include:

• Galfar ($159.6m)
• CCC ($157.4m)

The 265-kilometre-long Batinah Expressway will be Oman’s biggest road scheme and will link Muscat to the UAE border. The estimated budget for the project is about $2.6bn, but chances are the total value of the 10 contracts could exceed the budget by at least 9 percent. An eleventh package is also currently being tendered.

The contractors currently working on the various awarded packages include:

• Package 1: Galfar Engineering & Contracting (local) ($361m)
• Package 2: Nagarjuna Construction Company (India) ($371m)
• Package 3: Simplex Infrastructures (India) ($318m)
• Package 4: Larsen & Toubro (India) ($353m)
• Package 5:  Federici Stirling Batco / Ferrovial (Spain) JV ($345m)
• Package 6: CCC($322m)