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Jordan : MCA-JORDAN to float first of six tenders for $108m ZARQA water network project
Publish Date : 02-Apr-2013
On Sunday, the Millennium Challenge Account-Jordan (MCA-Jordan) announced that it will float the first of six tenders to restructure and rehabilitate the water network in Zarqa Governorate on Monday.
MCA-Jordan CEO Kamal Zoubi, on Sunday stated that the design of the $108-million water network project aims at decreasing water loss and also to increase the amount of water delivered to subscribers.
Zoubi said, “The first tender for restructuring primary and secondary pipes in Zarqa and Ruseifa will be floated tomorrow. The following four tenders for restructuring tertiary pipes will be floated in May and June.” The sixth tender to set up a reservoir and a pumping station in Ruseifa will be floated in September, he added.
After MCA-Jordan in September 2012 rejected all received bids to restructure and rehabilitate the water network in Zarqa, the tenders for the water network project were arranged into six. According to Zoubi the cancellation of the bids were because the offered prices exceeded the allocated money in the grant’s budget, provided by the US government’s Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC).
Zoubi said, “The tenders will be floated in conventional construction packages instead of the previous design-build packages.” This will facilitate better competition among the Jordanian contractors, he added.
Part of the $275-million Millennium Challenge Compact between the US and Jordan, the water network project is designed to enhance economic growth through better access to clean water and sanitation.
Zoubi said, “The project will increase water flow from 62 to 89 litres per capita per day and reduce non-revenue water loss from over 50 per cent to 35 per cent by 2016.”
Additionally, MCA-Jordan is even executing two projects in Zarqa, which includes the wastewater network project, designed to extend advanced sewage networks to urban areas, and the Samra Wastewater Treatment Plant Expansion Project.
