Ministry awarded six tenders worth BD2.8M

Manama

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Works, Municipality Affairs and Urban Planning Assistant Service Undersecretary Ahmed Abdul Aziz Al Khayyat said yesterday that the Ministry awarded six tenders worth BD2,893,470 and invited bids for 11 roads, sanitary and construction tenders worth BD4,020,108 in last April .According to Al Khayyat, the awarded tenders covered the roads, sanitary and construction sectors. In the roads sector, the tenders covered BD1,082,602 Time Contract Project for the import and installation of safety fence for years 2014 to 2016, and BD518,445 revamp of Block 351, Road 5121 and  environs in Burhama. In the sanitary sector, awarded tenders included  BD470,000 operation of the sewage treatment network, while the construction sector covered BD660,000 maintenance of building No.6 and construction of a guard room and outside fence for Sh. Rashid Equestrian Club, and BD104,750 import and installation of lighting, sensory mixers and solar energy control cell for the Central Informatics Organization in Isa Town.As for the 11 tenders for which bids were invited, the roads sector included the revamp of Hamala Block 1014, Road 1429, while the sanitary sector included the implementation of a main sewerage drainage line West of Budaiya (phase 2), as part of the housing projects sewerage works. The construction sector included maintenance and painting works for Al Jabriya Industrial School for Boys in Manama, maintenance and painting works for Saar Secondary Girls School, maintenance and painting works for Sh. Abdul Aziz bin Mohammed Secondary Boys School in Adliya and supervision of construction, mechanical and electrical works and painting works in Sh. Rashid Equestrian and Horse Race Club in Sakhir. Al Khayyat also revealed that the Ministry’s Cost Engineering Directorate, represented by the Purchase Department, approved 157 purchase requests during April 2015 worth BD476,322.The technical services sector approved two new request as part of the contractors pre-qualification requests and nine contractors and suppliers renewal requests.