The UK's Department For International Development has gone out to tender with a contract for engineering management services to rehabilitate the water supply in Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone, worth an estimated £36.8 million.
According to DFID, the water supply to Freetown is in a critical situation. It relies principally on a single source, Guma Dam, which was built in the early 1960s, supplies only around half of the city's theoretical demand and is vulnerable to climate effects.
Inadequate water from municipal systems are now forcing the population to seek informal sources seriously increasing the hazards to health and the risk of disease.
The Uk Government’s overseas aid department is now looking for an engineering, procurement and construction contractor for the rehabilitation and construction of the proposed engineering works under the DFID funded Freetown Water Supply Rehabilitation project.
The main objective of the project is to improve the water situation for the 600,000 people in the east of Freetown. The contractor will be required to provide detailed design and construction services to deliver the project on behalf of the Government of Sierra Leone and to safeguard the use of UK Government funds.
Since 2001 all UK development assistance has been fully untied which allows suppliers from anywhere in the world to bid for DFID contracts.
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate is 27th October – click here to access the tender documentation.
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