Hello everyone,There are six 6 consortia competing for the implementation of Rod El-Farag's highway.The Rod El Farag Highway Project is one of the key PPP Pilot Projects whereby the MHUUD (The Ministry of Housing, Utilities and Urban development) with the Ministry of Transport and by the technical assistance of the PPP Central Unit invited the private sector participation through a competitive bidding process to enter into PPPs for the construction, operation and maintenance of Rod El Farag Access road.The project will connect the existing ring road around Cairo with Cairo - Alexandria highway with total length of 34 km.The local source states the following: (I have included the companies that appear in the Qualification document)

Minister of Housing, Utilities and Urban Development Ahmed El-Maghrabi said that 6 Egyptian-global alliances of leading construction companies applied for the financing and implementation of the highway of Rod El Farag, pointing out that there are international companies from Austria (Strabag AG Infrastructure Development and Porr Solutions), France (Egis Projects), Malaysia (Projek Lintasan Kota Holdings SDN BHD and Prolinatas), Portugal (Soares da Costa Concessões and Banco Efisa- a subsidiary of BPN - Banco Portugues De Negocios), China, Korea (Samsung C&T Corporation) and Greece (GEK TERNA S.A.), in addition to large companies Egyptian Contracting.

The Invitation for Prequalification was issued on April 13th, 2010 and deadline for submission of the PPP road tender was postponed to August 1st , 2010. On the website of the Egyptian PPP Unit  we can find a list with all the companies that have requested qualification for this PPP road tender.I attach it below here:Rod El Farag Axis PPP Road Project - Pre Qualification Requests In this document we are missing chinese developers and we also can see how there would be two spanish developers inmerse in the tender (Acciona and OHL).El-Maghrabi said the ministry will start the evaluation of the documents submitted by each company and then announcing the short list of companies accepted within 15 days, after that comes the distribution of the bidding document, pointing out that this project is one of the major development projects, implemented by the Ministry of Housing to develop western entrances of Greater Cairo, solving traffic problems on the roads.We will wait until we know how the consortia are formed. I will keep you updated.Follow us on twitter!Take care!