21 October 2019
Kuwait has excluded a local company from a gas pipeline maintenance project although it has submitted the lowest bid, a newspaper reported on Monday.

The Gulf country's central agency for public tenders (CAPT) decided to consider the Mechanical Engineering and Contracting Company (MECC) "out of the race" for the project although it has submitted the lowest bid of 30.7 million Kuwaiti dinars ($101 million), the Arabic language daily Alanba said, quoting oil sources in the emirate.

CAPT has now asked the state-owned Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) to evaluate the second and third lowest bids for contract awarding, the paper said without mentioning reasons for excluding MECC from the project.

The second lowest bid of 32.4 million dinars ($106.9 million) was submitted by Kuwait's KDDB General Trading and Contracting Company while Oil and Gas Engineering for General Trading and Contracting, also a Kuwaiti firm, made the third lowest bid of 33.8 million dinars ($111.5 million), the report said.

KOC had pre-qualified 18 companies to bid for the gas pipeline repair and maintenance project but only 10 firms submitted bids.

(Writing by Nadim Kawach; Editing by Anoop Menon)

(anoop.menon@refinitiv.com)

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