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Oman Rail ... set to name the shortlisted bidders in March.

Oman to award key railway package

MUSCAT, January 18, 2015

Oman Rail, the developer and operator of the country's national railway project, is set to award the design-and-build package for the Sohar-Buraimi segment by the middle of the year, said a report.

A sizeable number of the 18 consortiums and joint ventures prequalified by Oman Rail to compete for the segment are expected to submit offers detailing their technical capabilities and commitments to delivering on the project’s demanding specs, reported the Oman Observer.

With the submission of the last of the bids today (January 18), the tendering for the civil works contract for the first phase of Oman's national railway network will come to a close.

Some of the big names vying for the project include Larsen & Toubro and Khalid Bin Ahmed & Sons; a joint venture (JV) of Strabag, CCC Oman and Samsung E&C; Salini Impregilo;  China Railway Construction Corporation and Mohammed Al Kharafi & Sons; a JV of Habtoor Leighton Middle East (leader), Al Hassan Engineering, Posco E&C and Khimji Ramdas; a JV of Societa Italiana Per Condotte D’Acqua (leader), Daewoo E&C, Arabtec Construction and Galfar Engineering & Contracting.

The scope of work includes virtually all aspects of rail design, engineering, supply, construction, installation and commissioning. It also requires the contractor to undertake, among other things, topographic and geotechnical site surveys, said the report.

The consortiums and JVs prequalified for the rail systems package are Ansaldo STS; a JV of Bombardier Transportation Italy (leader) and Sirti; a JV of Siemens (leader) and Siemens Oman; Thales consortium and Consortium Alstom Transporte (leader) and Alstom Belgium, it stated.

Oman Rail aims to name the shortlisted bidders for the contract on March 1 and an announcement on further tenders for additional phases of the 2,244-km network is expected later this year, the report added.




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