Saudi Arabia’s Soudah Development Company (SDC) has invited firms to bid for a contract to develop an employee housing package at its Soudah Peaks project. Public Investment Fund (PIF)-backed SDC is the developer of Soudah Peaks, a mountain tourism destination set 3,015 metres above sea level on the kingdom's highest peak in the Asir region. According to Fathi Al-Asir, development procurement senior manager at SDC, the contractor housing package will be developed using a design, build, finance, operate and maintain model. The package was tendered in March. Al-Asir also disclosed that SDC expects to tender the contract for the construction of the development's site-wide utilities package before the end of the year. Al-Asir said the utility infrastructure catering to Soudah Peaks will include one bulk supply point with a capacity of 380kV /132kV, two primary substations and 142 distribution substations. The development will also require 15 water storage tanks and pump stations. The tanks will have a storage capacity of 93,150 cubic metres, to cater to an expected demand of about 10,984 cubic metres a day (cm/d). A total of 14 sewage treatment plants are also planned, with a total capacity of 10,690 cm/d. The development will require 52 sewage lifting stations. The infrastructure package will also cover 24 mobile telecommunications or GSM (global system for mobile communications) towers and the relocation of eight existing GSM towers, as well as a package for the drainage culvert. In March, SDC appointed US-based engineering firm Aecom as the lead design consultant for the Soudah Peaks development. Aecom’s scope of work covers the design work for the first phase of the development. The masterplan covers an area of more than 635 square kilometres and consists of six development zones: Tahlal, Sahab, Sabrah, Jareen, Rijal and Red Rock. The development will have 2,700 hotel rooms, 1,336 residential units and 30 other attractions. The masterplan will be developed in three phases. The first phase will include the development of five of the six zones, namely Tahlal, Sahab, Sabrah, Rijal and Red Rock. Jareen will be developed as part of the third phase, when the infrastructure and connectivity are fully established within the development. Launched in 2021, SDC is wholly owned by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth vehicle, the PIF     For registration as a supplier: https://soudah.sa/en/soudah-development-vendors   (ICE RIYADH)

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