Oman floats tender worth $1.5bn national railway network project

A preliminary design tender of Oman's $1.5bn national railway network has been floated, according to the Oman Daily Observer.

The project is being managed by the Ministry of Transport and Communications, with the network to be linked to the proposed GCC-wide rail system.

Tender 4/2013 invites qualified international consultants to bid for an award for the provision of consultancy services to the Ministry for the preliminary design of the National Railway Project.

It is understood the tender process is not limited to the five consortiums that were pre-qualified to bid for the now shelved design engineering package floated by authorities prior to a Ministry review of the rail project.

Source: Constructionweekonlin