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The government of Bangladesh under the Ministry of Housing & Public Works has released a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) seeking interested firms to undertake the development of Flyover from Shantinagar to Dhaka-Mawa Road through Public Private Partnership.

Rajdhani Unnyan Kartripakkha (RAJUK), a goverment agency, has invited interested applicants and/or applicant consortiums to participate in qualification process for selection of a Private Partner through International Competitive Bidding (ICB) process for the PPP project.

RAJUK envisages the selected Private Partner to undertake designing, building, financing, operation & maintenance of the project. 

The project cost is estimated at BDT2,670 crore (US$338 million), including BDT461 crore (US$58.4 million) for land acquisition. The Government will manage land acquisition.

Of the total length of the project, the 4-lane of flyover portion will be 6.438 km while the 2-lane portion will be 6.882 km. Construction of a new two-lane 245m bridge is also included in the project.

The purpose of this project is to facilitate north-south traffic movement by increasing the traffic-carrying capacity of Dhaka city.

Application must be submitted on or before 12:00 hours BST, on 7 December 2017.

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