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DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

DFID 7739 Engineering Management Services to Rehabilitate Freetown Water Supply, Sierra Leone - Contract

Government ServicesCPV 75000000 75200000 75210000 75211000
Value£34.7m
Awarded26 Oct 2016
Published16 Aug 2017
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£34.7mtotal contract value
median £400k
this tender£0£37.5m

This is a large award for Government & Public Administration — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 5,438 valued Government & Public Administration tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The Rehabilitation of Freetown's Water Supply System project was approved by the Secretary of State for International Development in June 2016.

The main elements of the proposed rehabilitation works have been identified by GVWC engineers with support from a DFID funded Technical Assistance programme.

The Evidence on Demand 'Engineering Review Report' details the Works to be rehabilitated as part of the this project The water supply to Freetown is in a critical situation.

It relies principally on a single source, Guma Dam, which was built in the early 1960s, supplies only around half of the city's theoretical demand and is vulnerable to climate effects.

Inadequate water from municipal systems forces the population to seek informal sources seriously increasing the hazards to health and the risk of disease.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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The Rehabilitation of Freetown's Water Supply System

The Rehabilitation of Freetown's Water Supply System project was approved by the Secretary of State for International Development in June 2016.

02

Rehabilitation works have been identified by GVWC

rehabilitation works have been identified by GVWC engineers with support from a DFID funded Technical Assistance programme.

03

The water supply to Freetown is in

The water supply to Freetown is in a critical situation.

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