Shortlist for Dubai light rail

9 August 2004

An announcement of shortlisted bidders for the prequalification stage of Dubai's light rail project, that includes 18km of 9.6m diameter tunnels through sand is expected sometime later this month.

Sources said that more than 50 bidders submitted details for the civil content of the project and that this had now been shortlisted down to six potential bidders for the US$3.9bn project that also includes elevated sections. Of these, four are said to be joint ventures and two are stand alone bidders. The joint ventures are believed to be Bilfinger Taisei / Beisx; Boygues / Vinci / Hochtief / CC IC; Consorcio Dutco Balfour Beatty / RoyalBam-Interbeton / Parson Transportation and Obayashi / Yapi Merkezi. The two single bidders are Odebrecht from South Africa and the Bin Laden Group from Saudi.