📋 Tender Overview
Scope of Work:
North Muharraq Highway bridge project - Fourth Package.
Description:
The project scope includes development of Busaiteen Link (Junctions 4 to Junction 5), Signature Bridge and related approach ramps, Loop road bridge connecting the new Busaiteen Link to the Phase I of the North Manama Causeway. The strategic project is one of the major infrastructure projects being financed by the Saudi Fund for Development.
Bids are open to only Saudi contractors registered as per Deputy Ministry for Contractor Classification in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, under Class A for Roads Works or those registered as per Deputy Ministry for Contractor Classification in KSA under Class A for Roads Works in JV with Bahraini contractors registered under Category AA for Road Works as per Ministry of Works in the Kingdom of Bahrain or Saudi contractor registered as per Deputy Ministry for Contractor Classification in KSA under Class A for Road Works JV Foreign Contractor.
Reclamation work on the new BD94 million ($247.4 million) Signature Bridge had begun in 2019. The 550-m bridge, suspended 93 metres above sea level, is an extension of the 7.8km-long North Muharraq Highway project which also includes the 4.2km-long Muharraq ring road. It will connect north Busaiteen and Bahrain Bay. According to the Works Ministry, the entire work will be completed within 156 weeks.
Those in the race are Bahraini heavyweights - Almoayyed Contracting, Haji Hassan Group and Cebarco as well as Saudi-based Al Rashid Trading and Contracting and Al Yamama Company for Trading and Contracting and Six Construct, a subsidiary of top Belgian construction company Besix.
Previous Events:
November 2023-
Bahrain's Works Ministry has announced the opening of the tender for Fourth Package of North Muharraq Highway Project that will see a fourth bridge being built between Muharraq and capital Manama. Due Date - February 4, 2024.
