The number of tenders submitted during the same period was 77 tenders with the total cost of BD 116.1million.
“In line with the implementation of the Government Action Plan, led by His Royal Highness Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, the Prime Minister, aimed at reviving nationwide infrastructure development in the Kingdom of Bahrain, the Ministry of Works (MoW) by the end of last year had completed the implementation of a large number of development projects under its strategic plan aimed to provide infrastructures that supports the economy, and to attract more investments as well as enhance the efficacy and quality of services offered to citizens and residents in the Kingdom,” the Ministry in a statement said.
Minister of Works engineer Essam bin Abdullah Khalaf said that these projects attest to the Government’s commitment to investing on infrastructure projects aimed to ameliorate the livelihood of citizens all over the Kingdom’s rural and urban areas in compliance with the directives of His Royal Highness the Prime Minister.
Engineer Khalaf revealed that the total number of tenders awarded in the roads sector reached 19 tenders at a total cost of BD11.2million. Meanwhile, the number of tenders offered was 20 tenders at a total estimated cost of BD31.8million.
And in the sanitary engineering sector, Minister Khalaf said that the total number of tenders awarded reached 23 tenders at a total cost of BD19.8. The number of tenders offered was 31 tenders at a total estimated cost of BD 32.5million.
Engineer Khalaf added that regarding building projects, the total number of tenders awarded was 29 tenders at a total estimated cost of BD34.7million.
The number of tenders offered was 26 tenders at a total estimated cost of BD51.7million.
Also, in the year 2013, 8 tenders were offered as part of the Gulf development projects at a total estimated cost of BD39.6million as directed by the Ministry’s Committee on Infrastructure and supported by the Ministry of Finance to benefit from the Gulf Development program. The Ministry presented to the financing funds several development projects in the field of developing infrastructure and government buildings and obtained approval for financing a number of important projects pertaining to services which affect citizens and residents directly.
The number of projects presented to and financed by, the Saudi Development Fund was 7 tenders reaching an estimated cost of BD35 million including two tenders pertaining to the roads sector namely: phase one of construction of the Muharraq ringroad Street project, the second intersection project on the Shaikh Khalifa bin Salman Avenue and the road linking between Roundabout 13 and Roundabout 18 in Hamad Town in addition to 5 tenders related to the buildings sector namely the construction of Hamad Town Intermediate School for Boys, al-Busaiteen Intermediate School for Girls, Isa Town Primary School for Boys, al-Malikya Primary and Intermediate School for Girls and al-Hunainiya Secondary School for Boys.
Meanwhile the number of tenders offered, financed by the Kuwaiti Development Fund, was one tender; namely the preliminary work for the Shaikh Jabir Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah Avenue development project – both the Alba and Nuwaidrat intersections – at an estimated total cost of BD4.6million.