Egypt’s Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy has announced the cancellation of a tender for supplying 50,000 smart electricity meters that were needed for the South Cairo Electricity Distribution Company, a report said.

The ministry said that the cancelled tender was replaced by another, and will supply 3 million prepaid electricity metres, said the Daily News Egypt report.

Ministry sources informed that the five companies who presented their technical and financial offers were informed of the decision to cancel the tender without giving reasons, in accordance with the tenders’ regulations.

Although the financial and technical offers of supplying the 50,000 smart meters had already been analysed, new offers will be presented with two envelopes, technical and financial, to supply 3 million metres.

The sources added that there are 12 Arab and international companies who have bought the specifications of the new tender, including Elsewedy Electric, Siemens, Global, Banha Electronics, Huawei, ZTE, and Gama.

They explained that it was agreed upon that 5 per cent of the meters will be used as an experimental batch.

The share of South Cairo Electricity Distribution Company amounts to approximately 1.3 million meters, which will be installed in five districts in Cairo, namely 6th of October City, Sheikh Zayed, Haram, Dokki, and Maadi, added the report.