Proposed South Harbour project plan

The bids for the Colombo South Harbour infrastructure works financed by the Asian Development Bank opened Monday.

It is learnt that the bid prices of China Harbour Engineering Co. Ltd., Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction of Korea and Hyundai Engineering Construction of Korea amounting to around Rs.61 billion, Rs.76 billion and Rs.36 billion respectively were announced Monday.

The bid proposals were invited in December 2006 and the bids closed on May 8 this year with four proposals received from the three mentioned above including a Joint venture/consortium comprising MT Hojgarrd of Denmark, Boskalis of Belgium and Hindustan Construction of India.

After evaluation by the Technical Evaluation Committee (TEC) and the Cabinet appointed Procurement Committee (CAPC) the final recommendation of the CAPC on the following companies were forwarded to the ADB for their concurrent approval on August 10.

The ADB response with concurrent approval for the three parties were communicated to the Ports and Aviation Secretary later following which the commercial bids were opened on Monday with the bid prices being announced.
(DN - 20070913)