27/09/2023
Qatar plans $19bn of projects in 2024 as it prepares major tender process
Qatar announces tender plans for 2024 as it lines up more than $19bn of spending
Qatar plans QR70bn ($19.2bn) of projects in 2024, a forum on government procurement plans has heard.
The Public Works Authority (Ashghal) and the Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (Kahramaa) will implement the projects next year.
Two presentations by Ashghal and Kahramaa during the first two days of the forum showed that the value of 116 public tenders that Ashghal will launch for 2024 amounts to around QR59bn ($16.2bn)
Qatar 2024 procurement plans
The public tenders include:
Developing existing and new lands
Connecting and improving roads
Projects for sewage and marine outfalls
Maintaining road networks and sewage
Beautification of roads, public places, highways, and public buildings
Operational public procurement
Meanwhile, the value of 279 public tenders offered by Kahramaa for 2024 amounts to about QR8.9bn ($2.4bn) in three areas, including the electricity networks sector, the water networks sector, and the corporation’s service departments sector.
Ashghal Projects Affairs Director Eng. Yousef Abdulrahman Al Emadi said that the total tenders offered by Ashghal during 2024 reach around 116 projects at an estimated cost of about QR59bn ($16.2bn), of which QR28.4bn ($7.8bn) are allocated for constructing around 41 projects in developing existing and new lands, as well as connecting and improving roads.
Meanwhile, QR11.8bn ($3.2bn) is the value of 21 tenders for the establishment of sanitation and outfall projects.
Head of Procurement at Kahramaa in Qatar Sarah Abdullah Ahmadi said that the total value of Kahramaa projects for 2024 is estimated to read around QR8.9bn ($2.4bn), divided into 279 tenders, including:
62 tenders related to the supply of items
117 tenders related to the provision of services
67 tenders related to the supply of items and the provision of services
33 tenders related to contracting
Sectorwise, she indicated that 83 tenders in the electricity networks sector amount to QR5.7bn ($1.6bn), 41 tenders in the water networks amount to QR2.2bn ($604m), while the tenders for the service departments sector amount to QR958m ($263m).
Director of Government Procurement Regulations Department at the Ministry of Finance Nayef Moaid Al Hababi said that 2,528 tenders will be issued in 2024, distributed among 16 economic sectors, including more than 100 economic activities, according to the AIESEC classification.
In relation to tender launch dates, he explained that 2024 Q1 will see the issuance of 1,570 tenders or 65 per cent of total tenders for 2024, Q2 with 642 tenders, Q3 with 240 tenders, and Q4 with 76.
Qatar
Al Hababi pointed out that the tenders of Qatar’s Public Works Authority (Ashghal), the Ministry of Public Health, the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, the Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (Kahramaa), the Primary Health Care Corporation and Aspire Zone Foundation alone constitute about 70 per cent of the state’s total tenders for 2024.
The Director of Government Procurement Regulations explained that around 85 per cent of tenders fall within five main economic sectors; the information and communications technology sector with 644 tenders, wholesale and retail trade sector with 524 tenders, construction sector with 360 tenders, professional, practical, and technical activities sector with 351 tenders, and administrative and support service activities with 63 tenders.
Al Hababi said that the forum serves as a confirmation of the private sector’s role as an essential partner in achieving sustainable development and the strengthening of the national economy, particularly in job creation, innovation stimulation, and the provision of basic services in the country.
Source credit: https://www.arabianbusiness.com/politics-economics/qatar-plans-19bn-of-projects-in-2024-as-it-prepares-major-tender-process
