The five finalists on the Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Stadium in Khalifa City, Abu Dhabi, have been asked to also price in district cooling, according to industry sources. The closing date for the tender is June 21.
"They have asked us to revise the tender and include district cooling in the tender," said one of the sources. "Maybe, the client was dealing with it directly and now it is in our scope," another source told Emirates Business.
The billion-dollar football stadium project is being developed by the Abu Dhabi Government-owned investment firm Mubadala Development Company.
Currently, five groups have pre-qualified for the tender. The list comprises France's Bouygues with Arabian Construction Company, South Korea's Samsung Corporation and Germany's Ed
Zueblin, Japan's Taisei Corporation and Beijing-based China State Construction Engineering Corporation, France's Vinci Grands Projets with Athens-based Consolidated Contractors Company and China's Sinohydro Corporation.
Arabtec has entered into the bidding on the project with one of the five pre-qualified bidders, according to its CEO last week in an interview with this paper. He was not willing to divulge the details of the partnership.
"We are partnering with one of the groups which is a part of the list of five prequalified bidders on the Zayed Stadium project. We were not on the original list but since then, have partnered with one of them. The agreement took place in the last couple of weeks but we do not want to talk about the partner. It is in tender at the moment and we are pricing it," said Riad Kamal.
By Sona Nambiar
© Emirates Business 24/7 2010
