Works Ministry awarded 182 tenders last year

Manama

A total of 182 tenders were awarded last year by the Tender Board, in implementation of the Government Action Plan for 2018-2019, including the GCC Development Programme, and in line with the directives of His Royal Highness Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa to enhance infrastructure across the Kingdom, Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning Minister, Essam Khalaf, has revealed.

The minister pointed out that 89 projects, worth BD 199,392,152,035, had been awarded in 2019. They included 44 projects in the construction and maintenance sector, 23 in the sanitation sector, 8 in the roads sector and 14 in the services sector.

Meanwhile, 93 tenders, with an estimated of cost BD 106,625, 102, 200, were launched during the same year, including 14 in the roads sector, 27 in the sanitation sector, 41 in the construction and maintenance sector and 11 in the services sector, he said.

He added that the Works Ministry’s requests to finance a number of key service projects within the GCC Development Programme had been approved, noting that the projects are directly related to the lives of citizens and residents.

In this regard, he said that 20 tenders had been awarded or launched within the GCC Development Programme, at an estimated cost of BD 146,710,229,379‫.