Two consortia submitted offers for Alexandria hospital
Date
October 22, 2011
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The Finance Ministry's Central Unit of Partnership of Egypt received on October 18th the technical and financial offers for bid of execution, operation and maintenance of Alexandria University hospitals via public-private projects (PPP) system.
The project is the second PPP project to be awarded by the PPP Unit after the New Cairo Wastewater Treatment Plant.
The two consortia that submitted final offers for the hospital are the following:- Orascom Construction Industries, Hassan Allam Sons, Italy's Gemmo LLC Egupt and IT Ventures.
- The Arab Academy represented in Albareek Investments, DETAC Contracting, G4S and Siemens.
The project is expected to be awarded in December.
The Project includes:(i) the construction of a new 200-bed Gynecology/Obstetrics University Hospital to be located as part of a new hospital complex which would also include a new pediatric and a new emergency hospital at the mouha hospitals complex;
(ii) the construction of a new Blood Bank at the Smouha hospitals complex; and
(iii) The construction of a new 223-bed hospital near the existing Mowassat Hospital for the provision of highly specialized care services (Centers of Excellence): a Neuro-Center, and a Urology/Nephrology including kidney transplants) Center.
There are 32 projects being studied by the PPP Unit with the various ministries, as a preliminary step to launch them to investors under the PPP system by the beginning of 2012.
You can read this interesting article on PPP projects in Egypt released last week.
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