Meed | Turkish firm wins Baghdad sewerage project contract

Turkish firm wins Baghdad sewerage project contract

30 August 2024

Turkiye's MPE Engineering, Construction & Contracting & Trading has won a contract to rehabilitate the Al-Doura sewerage pumping station in Iraq.

The package is part of the Baghdad water supply and sewerage improvement project, which the Washington-based World Bank Group is coordinating.

MPE offered to undertake the project for $13.9m. The contract duration is 545 days.

Other companies that submitted bids for the contract are:

Al-Jindar Construction & General Trading (local): $17.29m
China Chemical Engineering Second Construction Corporation (China): $15.2m

According to data from regional projects tracker MEED Projects, an estimated $166bn-worth of contracts are in the pre-execution phase across Iraq's seven main sectors. Oil and gas projects account for about one-third of that value, with transport accounting for 26% and construction 27%.

Projects worth $177bn are under execution, with oil and gas projects accounting for 40% of the total.

Utilities projects command a small share of Iraq's multibillion-dollar projects pipeline.

A contract to design and build a sewerage facility in the southwestern area of Erbil city in the Iraqi Kurdistan region is being retendered.

The project budget is valued at an estimated $778m, with the Japanese Official Development Assistance (ODA) Office providing a ¥34.417bn ($317m) loan through the Japan International Cooperation Agency.

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Jennifer Aguinaldo