The Oman Power and Water Procurement Company SAOC (OPWP) has invited specialized companies to submit offers for supervisory consultancy services for the Ghubrah IWP and Barka I water projects, both of which involve desalination plants.
Via its tender 15/2012, OPWP wishes to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced consultant to provide project management and technical consultancy services during the construction, commissioning and testing of the projects, which are being implemented on a build-own-operate basis under the terms of respective water purchase agreements with OPWP.
The Ghubrah IWP will be based on a 42 million MIGD (191,000 m³/d) capacity seawater reverse-osmosis desalination plant. The announcement of the winning tender for the project is imminent.
The Barka I project is a 10 MIGD (45,460 m³/d) extension to the existing ACWA Power Barka plant.
Closing date for tenders is 8 December 2012.