An international consortium made up of France-based Saur, Saudi Arabia’s Miahona and Philippines Manila Water, has won a management, operations and maintenance (MOM) contract for water and wastewater facilities in two provinces of Saudi Arabia, reports Energy & Utilities.
Under the kingdom’s National Water Strategy, the National Water Company (NWC) has awarded a contract for the North West Cluster, which covers Saudi Arabia’s Medina and Tabuk regions. The consortium will deliver water and wastewater services for 3.5 million people in the cluster under a performance-based contract.
In a statement, the NWC announced that the consortium had signed a seven-year management contract worth SR198m ($52.5m).
In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange on Friday, Manila Water said: “The (contract) will comprise the management, operations and maintenance of the water and wastewater facilities of the North West Cluster (Madinah and Tabuk) over a 7-year contract period, which will entail the implementation of enabling projects and deployment of key Personnel to manage the cluster and achieve the Key Performance Indicators target set by the NWC.”
Energy & Utilities added that under Saudi Arabia’s new national water strategy, 13 administrative districts have been merged to operate under the umbrella of 6 new areas for which the MOM contracts will be awarded.
