Saudi Water Partnership Company (SWPC) issued on Monday the Request for Qualification (RFQ) tender for the 900,000 cubic metres per day (m3/day) Rayis – Rabigh Independent Water Transmission Pipeline (IWTP) project. 

In August, Zawya Projects had reported that SWPC had issued the Expression of Interest invite for the IWTP project with a submission deadline of 30 September 2021. The report said the 100-kilometre-long water pipeline project is SWPC’s second IWTP after the 400,000 m3/day Ras Mohaisan-Baha-Makkah IWTP. 

“A total of 31 companies including 14 Saudi companies expressed their interest in the project,” a source aware of the project details told Zawya Projects.  

The companies included: 

  1. Abdul Aziz Al Ajlan Sons Co. for Commercial & Real Estate Investment – Ajlan & Bros  
  2. Abengoa Agua 
  3. Abdullah Fahad Al-Khaledi for General Contracting Company (AFAC) 
  4. Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (TAQA) 
  5. Acciona Agua 
  6. Al-Fahd Company Trading Industries & Contracting 
  7. Alghanim International General Trading & Contracting Co 
  8. Alkhorayef Water & Power Technologies 
  9. Al-Rawaf Co. for Trading & Contracting 
  10. China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) 
  11. China Railway Construction Corporation (International) 
  12. Civil Works Company (CWC) 
  13. Cobra Instalaciones y Servicios (Cobra Group)  
  14. FAS Energy  
  15. Gulf Investment Corporation (GIC)  
  16. Hassan Allam Holding (HAH)  
  17. Lamar Holding  
  18. Marubeni Corporation  
  19. Mowah Co 
  20. Mutlaq Al-Ghowairi Company (MGC)  
  21. Nesma Co  
  22. PASSAVANT Energy & Environment  
  23. Power and Water Utility Company for Jubail and Yanbu (MARAFIQ), 
  24. Powerchina International Group,  
  25. Tamasuk Holding Company,  
  26. JV of Tanqia Environment / Petrojet,  
  27. Taqqat Global Company,  
  28. TECTON Engineering & Construction Saudi Contracting Company 
  29. UTICO 
  30. Vision International Investment Company 
  31. A Hak Pijpleidingen Saudi Company 

The project is slated for completion by the fourth quarter of 2024. 

(Reporting by Senthil Palanisamy; Editing by Anoop Menon) 

(anoop.menon@refinitiv.com) 

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