Saudi Water Partnership Company (SWPC) is expected to issue the request for proposals (RFP) for a contract to develop an independent water project (IWP) in Jubail in the first quarter of 2024. SWPC recently qualified nine individual companies and consortiums that can bid for the contract to develop, finance and operate the planned Jubail 4 and 6 IWP scheme. Located in Jubail in Saudi Arabia's eastern province, the plants will be able to treat 600,000 cubic metres a day (cm/d) of seawater using reverse osmosis technology.  Final approvals are under way for the project's tender documents. The desalination plant will be located 18 kilometres south of Jubail Industrial City, adjacent to four existing desalination units – Jubail phase one, Jubail phase two, and the Jubail 3A and 3B IWP facilities. As with the  previous seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) IWP contracts already awarded in the kingdom, the successful bidder, through a project company, will develop the project and sell the entire capacity and output to SWPC under a 25-year water-purchase agreement (WPA). It also appointed UAE-based Future Water & Power Consulting to assist with the project tender and in finalising the site studies required for the bid. The project is among the nine IWPs planned between 2022 and 2028 by SWPC, including the Ras Mohaisen IWP project, which is in the bid stage. SWPC has awarded the contracts for six IWP projects in Saudi Arabia - Rabigh 3, Shuqaiq 3, Yanbu 4 (Ar-Rayis 1), Jubail 3A, Jubail 3B and Rabigh 4. A seventh contract for developing the Shuaibah 3 SWRO plan was also directly negotiated and awarded in 2022. (ICE RIYADH)

Fonte notizia: construction week