Kuwait’s Public Authority for Housing Welfare (PAHW) has awarded a construction contract worth $368 million to Kuwait Arab Contractors Company for road works, utility services networks and rainwater tanks in the new South Sabah Al Ahmad city.

The upcoming City is located 80 kilometres south of Kuwait City on an area of 61.5 square kilometres.

The duration of the implementation of the works is 1,095 days (three years), according to a Ministry notice.

Kuwait Arab Contractors Company submitted the lowest bid while KCC Engineering & Contracting Company submitted the highest bid at $604 million, according to data available with Zawya Projects.

A total of 14 companies had submitted bids for the project.

  1. Combined Group Contracting Company (132,750,000 Kuwaiti dinars)
  2. China Gezhouba Group Co. (KWD141,880,000)
  3. Kuwait Company for Process Plant Construction & Contracting (KWD 161,700,000),
  4. Mohammed Abdulmohsin Al-Kharafi & Sons (KWD141,400,000),
  5. The Arab Contractors Osman Ahmed Osman and Company (KWD 118,215,739)
  6. Ahmadiyya Contracting and Trading Company (KWD 148,000,000)
  7. United Gulf Construction Company (KWD149,872,734)
  8. Kuwait Arab Contractors Company (KWD112,797,000)
  9. Al Ghanim International (KWD142,876,000)
  10. Limak Insaat Sanayi Ve Ticaret (KWD143,683,998)
  11. KCC Engineering & Contracting Company (KWD184,997,000)
  12. Sinohydro Corporation (KWD140,686,906)
  13. Afcons Infrastructure (KWD177,223,776)
  14. China First Highway Engineering Company (KWD146,888,888)

China State Construction Engineering Corporation, Ansar General Contracting Company, First Kuwaiti Company for General Trading and Contracting had bought tender documents but didn’t participate.

The tender was issued on 25 September 2022 with bid submission deadline of 29 December 2022, which was extended to 12 January 2023, a source told Zawya Projects

The South Sabah Al-Ahmad Masterplan has been designed by UK-based global architecture firm Foster + Partners. In a statement posted on its website, the firm said the new city is set to be the urban core for Kuwait’s southern sub-region and comprises 10 neighbourhood clusters arranged around a central business district and bordered by a ring of light industrial buildings. The city will be home to an estimated 280,000 people, while creating another 145,000 jobs.

(Reporting by Senthil Palanisamy; Editing by Anoop Menon)

(anoop.menon@lseg.com)