SWPC is pushing ahead with a number of ISTPs.
SWPC tenders two sewage plant projects
01 February 2022
Saudi Water Partnerships Company (SWPC) has issued requests for qualifications (RFQs) for the development of two independent sewage treatment plants in the kingdom with a total capacity of 150,000 cu m per day.
Riyadh East ISTP with 100,000 cu m per day capacity will be coming up in the capital, while the 50,000 cu m per day Khamis Mushait ISTP will be located in the Asir Province of southwestern Saudi Arabia, said SWPC.
SWPC had in late 2021 announced that it was considering the option to bundle both the Riyadh East and Khamis Mushait ISTP and seek bidders for the bundled ISTPs together under one RFP.
The successful bidder will then be awarded the bundled ISTPs. However, each project will be implemented by a separate project company, which will be incorporated by the successful bidder following the award of the bundled ISTPs, it added.
According to SWPC, a total of 42 utility project developers, including 23 Saudi companies, had expressed their interest in the projects.
The top firms eyeing the project include Spanish infrastructure majors Acciona, Abengoa Agua; Cobra; GS Inima Environment and Copasa Group, French groups Veolia, Saur Sas and Suez International, Dutch utility specialist Arkoil Technologies and Ireland-based Ask Environmental Services in addition to Korea’s Samsung Engineering and the local units of China Gezhouba Group and Harbour Engineering Company.
Among the top Saudi firms in the race are Ajlan & Bros; Marafiq; AFAC; Tawzea; Al Bawani Water & Power (AWP); Nesma; Alkhorayef Water and Power Technologies; Haaco; AWT; Alfanar Company; Al Yamama; Lamar Saudi; Mowah and Tamasuk Holding Company.
The regional heavyweights who have expressed interests in the project include UAE groups Utico and Metito; Kuwait-based Alghanim International General Trading & Contracting and Egypt’s Orascom Construction and Hassan Allam Holding.
According to SWPC, the winning bidders, under a 25-year sewage treatment agreement with the utility firm, will be incorporated to develop each facility.
For the Riyadh East and Khamis Mushait ISTP, the utility firm is being advised by KPMG Professional Services as financial and lead advisor, White & Case as legal advisor and Future Water and Power Consulting as the technical advisor.
The deadline for submitting the bids was January 12.
Meanwhile, 60 per cent of the work on the Jeddah Airport 2 Independent Sewage Treatment Plant has been completed and the project is on track for commercial operations in Q1 2023, according to the SWPC.
Once completed, it will have the capacity to treat 300,000-cu-m per day sewage water, said its CEO Khaled Z AlQureshi after an inspection tour of the project site.
The project is being developed by Marafiq (Power and Water Utility Company for Jubail and Yanbu) under a build, own, operate and transfer (BOOT) concession model with a total ultimate treatment capacity of 500,000 cu m per day.
Stage one will treat 300,000 cu m per day, scheduled to be commissioned on January 31, 2023, while Stage two is expected to add another 200,000 cu m per day.
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