Bids have been submitted for revegetation contracts recently tendered as part of the multibillion-dollar Kuwait Environmental Remediation Programme (Kerp)Bids were ultimately submitted ahead of the 6 August deadline. The original bid submission deadline was 16 April 2023.The four revegetation contracts being tendered by state-owned Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) are expected to be awarded to four separate contractors and include a wide range of work activities, Kuwait-based Abdul Hameed Salem Sons Trading Company submitted the lowest bid on the contract for Zone 1 with a price of $88.5m.Zalzalah Company for Agricultural Services & Contracting submitted the lowest bid on the contract for Zone 2 at $68.88m.Al-Ghanim International General Trading & Contracting Company put forward the lowest bids for both Zone 3 and Zone 4. The price it offered for Zone 3 was $104.1m and for Zone 4 it proposed $132.6m.It is understood that KOC wants to award each of the packages to a different contractor, so it may choose to award the contract for Zone 3 or Zone 4 to the second-lowest bidder.The full list of bidders is:Green Tide General Trading & Contracting CompanyZone 1 $94.8mZone 2 $89.5mZone 3 $130.4mZone 4 $153.7mGreen Logistics Agricultural ContractingZone 1 $92.1mZone 2 $85.1mZone 3 $125.1mZone 4 $145.1mAbdul Hameed Salem Sons Trading CompanyZone 1 $88.5m (lowest bid)Zone 2 $83.5mZone 3 $117.6mZone 4 $144.2mAl-Hajry General Trading & Contracting CompanyZone 1 $93.5mZone 2 $86.3mZone 3 $126.9mZone 4 $147.1mAl-Ghanim International General Trading & Contracting CompanyZone 1 $88.6mZone 2 $122.3mZone 3 $104.1m (lowest bid)Zone 4 $132.6m (lowest bid)Al-Nakheel Company for Agricultural ProductionZone 1 $90.7mZone 2 $81.3mZone 3 $122mZone 4 $139mGreen Fields Agricultural CompanyZone 1 $91.5mZone 2 $82.3mZone 3 $119mZone 4 $137mZalzalah Company for Agricultural Services & ContractingZone 1 $93.1mZone 2 $68.9m (lowest bid)Zone 3 $125.8mZone 4 $146.5mAli Muhammad Thunayan al-Ghanim & Sons General Trading CompanyZone 1 $96.9mZone 2 $89.2mZone 3 $133mZone 4 $155mArd al-Tayeb Agricultural Contracting CompanyZone 1 $89.6mZone 2 $85mZone 3 $117.9mZone 4 $143mPermanent Spring Agricultural Contracting CompanyZone 1 $90.3mZone 2 $84.1mZone 3 $117.6mZone 4 $142.1mThe scope of each of the four contracts has been divided into enabling works and revegetation works.The required enabling works include:Health, safety and environment studiesTopographical surveysConstructing roadsInstalling temporary site officesAssessing risks posed by unexploded ordnanceCarrying out geophysical surveys for unexploded ordinance and unexploded ordinance clearanceInstalling fencingGroundwater monitoring well installationDesigning, constructing, operating and maintaining an on-site seeding nurseryDesigning and constructing permanent officesDesigning, constructing and commissioning a water pipeline and associated tankageDesigning, constructing and commissioning a permanent water treatment system and accessoriesWater well infrastructure and connectionThe required revegetation works include:Plant procurement and deliveryPlanting procedures and layoutIrrigationAftercare and maintenanceThe winners of the contracts will use the soil currently being processed to remove oil pollution in ongoing remediation projects. This soil will be distributed in multiple areas and seeded with native plants.Ten species of grass and shrubs have been approved for the project, as well as two tree species.This will be followed by a “performance period” of 2,000 days.According to the original project schedule, plant installation was to be completed by the end of March 2027, with the whole project scheduled to be finished by the end of July 2029.Due to the delays to the tendering schedule, the project completion targets will likely be pushed back.Each contractor must plant several million plants over three years as part of their contract.The contractor will only be permitted to plant seasonally, from 1 September to 31 March.The project is the last to be tendered as part of Kerp. Kerp is the largest environmental remediation project in the world and was established by the UN Compensation Commission to allow Kuwait to address the ecological damage resulting from the 1990-91 Gulf War. (ICE KUWAIT)

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