The awards are:

A $600 million contract to a joint venture of the US' Fluor Corporation and the UK's Amecfor the design and construction of potable water distribution and treatment systems, municipal sewer collection and treatment systems and solid waste management systems in the north;

A $500 million contract, also to the Fluor/Amec joint venture, for the same water services in the south;

A $325 million contract for the upgrade of aviation facilities, ports, highways, bridges and railroads to a joint venture of the US' Contrack Internationaland its parent company Orascom Construction Industries (OCI) of Egypt, with the US' American International Contractors and its parent, Geneva-registered Archirodon Construction (Overseas);

A $75 million contract to the US' Lucent Technologies World Servicesto repair and modernise the country's communications systems.

The PMO has now awarded 15 out of 17 management contracts planned under the reconstruction programme. The two remaining contracts are for the reconstruction of public sector buildings, including schools and hospitals, and the reconstruction of security and justice facilities (MEED 19:3:04).