Bids sought for Rod el-Farag highway in Egypt
Date
February 02, 2011
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There are new dates for the Rod el Farag highway tender. The project will connect the existing ring road around Cairo with Cairo - Alexandria highway with total length of 34 km.
The Invitation for Prequalification for the project was issued on April 13th, 2010 and deadline for submission of the PPP road tender was postponed to August 1st , 2010.Five consortia have entered the bidding process according to World Highways:
- Orascom has teamed up with French firm Egis and Belgian-based Besix
- Austrian contractor Strabag is in partnership with local firm International Group for Investment and EFG Hermes
- The Greek contractor Gek Terna has teamed up with Austrian company Porr Solutions and local firm Hassam Allam
- China Communication and Portuguese Soares da Costa
- South Korean contractor GS Engineering
This is a very important project for Egypt, probably the first PPP project in transportation. Let's see whether they are able to accomplish the new timing set for the project.
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