The Saudi Water Partnerships Company (SWPC) has issued the Request for Qualification (RFQ) to the interested companies for Jubail-Buraydah Independent Water Transmission Pipelines (IWTP) project. The deadline for submitting the bids is January 24, 2022.
This is the fourth IWTP Project of Saudi with a transmission capacity of 650,000 cubic meters per day and a total length of 603 Kilometer which will be implemented on a Build-Own-Operate-Transfer (BOOT) model.
SWPC said recently said that it had received expressions of interest (EOI) from 32 companies for the planned project of which 14 are Saudi-based firms. The project company, formed by the developer, will provide the entire water transmission capacity to SWPC under a water transmission agreement (WTA).
The WTA is expected to last for 35 years. The Saudi Ministry of Finance has agreed to guarantee the firm’s obligations under the WTA with a credit support agreement.
The top international companies which submitted EOI include Spanish infrastructure majors Acciona and Abengoa Agua; Swiss group Hoffmann Technics; top Korean builder Samsung C&T Corporation; Japan’s Marubeni and China’s Gezhouba, Harbour Engineering, China Petroleum Pipeline Engineering and Powerchina International.
The top Saudi firms among the bid are Ajlan & Bros; Al Bawani Water & Power (AWP); Nesma; Alkhorayef Water and Power Technologies; Sicim; Arabian Bemco Contracting; Mowah, Tamasuk Holding Company and Tecton Engineering & Construction Saudi Contracting.
The project is a part of the Saudi National Water Strategy 2030, under which a key goal is to provide 90 percent of national urban supply by desalinated water to reduce reliance on non-renewable ground sources. Similarly, the project is in line with the IWTP program, which intends to build a network of potable water transmission systems that includes pipelines and temporary or terminal storage facilities to connect consumption centers to desalination plants.
