Al-Mutla’a housing project postponed indefinitely
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KUWAIT CITY, July 26: “The Board of Directors of the Central Agency for Public Tenders (CAPT) rejected the request of the Ministry of Public Works to reopen the bidding process for companies for the South Al-Mutla’a purification plant project. This means that the housing project in Al-Mutla’a is now postponed indefinitely”, reports Al-Rai daily quoting informed sources from the Ministry of Public Works as saying.
They went on to say, “This decision taken by the agency’s board of directors during its last meeting has left the ministry with no choice but to cancel the project and re-propose it again. This will result in postponing the housing of the owners of the plots of Al-Mutla’a city until the implementation of the project; otherwise the tragedies of the people of Sabah Al-Ahmad Residential area will recur with the residents of Al-Mutla’a city.” The sources indicated CAPT’s tendency to possibly cancel the project and ask the ministry to resubmit it, revealing that the rehabilitation process is expected to take more than a year. Stressing that the ministry intends to submit a letter to the agency asking it to reconsider the issue of opening bids, the sources called for “investigating the procedures for offering qualification and the reasons that previously called for closing the bidding door, despite the competing companies submitting several inquiries that were not answered.”
It is worth mentioning that the South Al-Mutla’a City Purification Plant Project, which has an estimated cost of KD 175 million, is considered one of the major development projects related to services and infrastructure. The plant’s capacity reaches 400,000 cubic meters of water per day. The project also includes the design and construction of a main electrical transfer station to produce 16 megawatts, and the design and construction of a control and distribution system for treated water which will include a treated water control center
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