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Three firms bid $240M each to ‘supervise project’
EBD four-lane extension…
A major project to continue the four-lane highway from Providence to Diamond, East Bank Demerara, is taking shape with bids to supervise the works opened on Tuesday.
Three local companies are collaborating with foreign firms to oversee the contract, once it is awarded to them.
The four-lane project is expected to ease the heavy congestion daily, especially between the city and Diamond. Traffic on the East Bank Demerara roadway has been increasing 10% annually, government says.
The four-lane extension will continue from this area just south of the National Stadium, Providence, to Diamond, East Bank of Demerara.
The expansion project is being funded in a large part by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) for US$20M and in part by Guyana.
MMM Group, based in Canada and in association with local consultants, CEMCO Inc, submitted a bid for the supervisory duties for US$1,193,000.
US-based, Sheladia Associates is collaboration with E&A Consultants, submitted a bid for US$1,190,950.
A bid was also opened for Mott McDonald, an internationally renowned engineering company, which did work on the Berbice River Bridge, for a total of £749,375. Mott McDonald intends to work along with SRKN consultants, a local company.
The designs of the extension of the East Bank Demerara four-lane highway (which has not yet gone out to tender) have been completed and are being evaluated.
The expansion will continue from south of the National Stadium, Providence to the current entrance of the Diamond/Grove Housing Scheme.
The project includes the leveling of the Diamond ‘high bridge’; cane fields being converted into the two-lane road, sound-proofing of the Providence Magistrate’s Court and the installation of road safety features like sidewalks and road signs.
The project duration is 18 months after the contract is signed. The actual construction works are to be executed in three lots, and will be done simultaneously.
This ‘high bridge’ in Diamond, will be flattened as part of the configuration for the expansion.
The first entails the widening of the existing road corridor from Providence to the Guyana Water Incorporated facility in Covent Garden. The length of this stretch is 2.5 kilometres (km). When this phase is completed, two bridges at Herstelling and Farm and three culverts will be widened.
In this section, the eastern side of the road will be widened, an embankment will be erected and each lane will measure 3.3 metres.
The second lot of the project involves constructing a two-lane road through the cane fields and joining the newly constructed road to the existing East Bank Demerara Public Road at Prospect and Diamond, north of the Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL). The two roads will be separated by the existing trench and pedestrian foot bridges will be placed at convenient points linking both roads.
The last lot will start at Great Diamond, on the existing road and end at the entrance of the Diamond/ Grove Housing Scheme, by the traffic lights.
The project will also see the construction of another entrance to the Diamond Housing Scheme. A decision has been taken to have it located between DDL and the GuyOil Service Station, and connected to the first street in Diamond. There is land already available and earmarked for this.
The plan is to also remove the current car park and build a multi-purpose tarmac near this second entrance. It would be used as a car park and allow for vending.
The new road will also see the construction of pedestrian and bicycle paths and parking. There will also be the mandatory erection of road signs.
The bids submitted and opened for the supervisory works were:
Bidder Amount
MMM Group in association with CEMCO Inc US$1,193,000
Sheledia Associates in association with E&A Consultants US$1,190,950
Mott McDonald in association with SRKN £749,375
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