A low bid of TL 10.5 million million ($61.1 million) has been returned for the construction of a wastewater treatment plant in Izmir by a venture of the local Tekser with Austrian Energy & Environment (AEE) and the US' Post Buckley, according to contracting sources. The plant is part of the Izmir great channel project planned by the Izmir Water & Sewerage Administration (IZSU - MEED 29:8:97).

The six bids returned to IZSU by ventures of local with foreign companies were:

Tekser with AEE and Post Buckley - TL 10.5 million million ($61.1 million)

Sistem Yapi, Limak and Intes with the US' CDM - TL 13.5 million million ($78.5 million)

Alarko with Italy's Emit - TL 15.1 million million ($87.6 million)

Aydiner with Germany's Berliner Wasser Betriebe (BWB) and Fichtner - TL 21.3 million million ($123 million)

Ata with Italy's Ansaldo Industria - TL 21.7 million million ($125.6 million)

Entes with Spain's Tecnicas Reunidas - TL 24.2 million ($140.13 million)

The project involves the construction of the first stage of an advanced, fully automated biological wastewater treatment plant with an average flow of 7 cubic metres a second.