Abu Dhabi's Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC) has invited suitable contractors to bid for the main contract works of the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

The museum, designed by Jean Nouvel, will form an iconic landmark within the cultural district of Saadiyat.

The approximate built-up area is 87,000 sq m and the contract works include concrete substructure and superstructure, structural steelwork and feature cladding to the ‘dome’, mechanical, electrical and plumbing works, vertical transportation, specialist security installation, fit-out works and external works, said a notification.

Interested companies must have completed three projects each in excess of Dh1 billion ($272 million) in the last five years; and have recent experience on projects similar in size, character and complexity, it said.

The responses should be submitted no later than 4pm on April 5, it said. – TradeArabia News Service