A consortium led by China’s Jiangsu United Water Technology has won a long-term operations and maintenance (LTOM) contract for nine sewage treatment plants in northern Saudi Arabia.

The contract covers the Northern Cluster Sewage Treatment Plants Package 10 (LTOM10) and has an estimated value of about SR203m ($54.1m).

According to sources, Saudi Arabia’s National Water Company (NWC) awarded the contract to United Water, Prosus Energy (UAE) and Armada Holding (Saudi Arabia).

The scope includes the rehabilitation and operation of nine sewage treatment plants located across the Hail, Qassim, Al-Jouf and Northern Borders provinces.

The facilities have a combined treatment capacity of 337,800 cubic metres a day (cm/d).

The contract runs for 15 years and includes an initial three-year period for rehabilitation and upgrade works, followed by long-term operation and maintenance.

The consortium will carry out plant rehabilitation, efficiency improvements, installation of sludge-drying facilities and full-cycle operations and maintenance services.

As MEED understands, United Water will be responsible for design, financing, operation and part of the construction works.

Saudi Arabia’s Armada Holding will handle construction, equipment import customs clearance and local business communications. UAE-registered Prosus Holding will act as the financial investor.

LTOM programme

NWC awarded $2.7bn-worth of contracts for the first phase of its LTOM programme. This comprises nine packages covering the treatment of 4.6 million cm/d of sewage water for the next 15 years.

As MEED previously reported, local contracting firm Alkhorayef Water & Power Technologies won three contracts with a combined capacity of 2.04 million cm/d, nearly half of the awarded total. These three contracts are worth more than SR5.53bn ($1.47bn).

A consortium of France’s Suez and the local Al-Awael Modern Contracting Group, with its affiliate Civil Works Company (CWC), won two packages worth a combined SR1.84bn.

A consortium comprising France’s Veolia and Awael-CWC won a single package worth SR1.26bn and local utility developer Miahona won one package worth SR392m.

Most recently, a joint venture of CWC and Al-Awael Modern Contracting was awarded a $211m contract for LTOM 9.

As part of the second phase, the contract for LTOM 11 (North Western A Cluster) is expected to be awarded in the coming weeks.

The main contract bids have also been submitted for LTOM 12 (North Western B Cluster).

Alkhorayef Water & Power Technologies, CWC and Miahona, among other companies, have submitted bids.

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