Saudi Arabia's main producer of desalinated water, Saline Water Conversion Company (SWCC), has yet to publicly disclose the bid results for two of the four seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination plants that it is procuring using an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) model. Companies that have likely submitted bids for Shuaibba 5 and Yanbu 6 include India's VA Tech Wabag, local firms Rawafid, Civil Works Company and AliShar Contracting Company and Spain's Abengoa.  Commercial bids have been opened and that the bidders have been notified of bid results. Companies submitted bids for the contract to build the Yanbu 5 SWRO project, which has a baseline capacity of 300,000 cubic metres a day (cm/d), on 14 May. Contractors submitted bids for Shubaiba 6 SWRO, which has a capacity of 545,000 cm/d, five days later. SWCC extended the tender closing date for two other SWRO plants to 4 July. The Jubail and Ras Al-Khair SWRO projects will each have the capacity to treat 600,000 cm/d of seawater. The four contracts are being procured using an EPC model, in contrast to the SWRO facilities being procured on a public-private partnership basis by the state offtaker, Saudi Water Partnership Company. SWCC is the world's largest producer of desalinated water, with a capacity of at least 6.6 million cm/d. Plants utilising older and energy-intensive techniques such as multi-stage flash technology account for the majority of the current capacity. (ICE RIYADH)

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