Latest update April 18th, 2025 8:12 AM
Six contractors vying to build industrial block at Annandale Secondary
Kaieteur News- A total of six firms, including a company out of China, are competing for the contract to construct a new industrial block at the Annandale Secondary School on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD).
Six contractors vying to build industrial block at Annandale Secondary
The project, which is being executed through the Ministry of Education, was opened recently at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) office.
According to information provided, the firms who submitted both their technical and financial proposals for the contract are as follow: Sheriff Construction Inc., Blue Print Builders Inc., Shandong High-Speed Dijian Group Co. Ltd., Urban Edge Builders Inc., Permaul Trading & Distribution, and Allicock’s Construction & Supplies.
As reported, the Education Ministry will be using a portion of a loan from the World Bank to fund the construction of a new industrial block.
According to its initial request for bids, the ministry shared that the government received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Guyana Strengthening Human Capital Through Education project, and intends to apply part of the proceeds toward payments under the contract for the ‘Construction of New Industrial Block at the Annandale Secondary’.
The ministry has been building industrial blocks/departments at secondary schools as part of its efforts to enhance Technical and Vocational Education (TVET) at these facilities. At a sod-turning ceremony for a secondary school on the East Bank of Demerara, Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, in a live broadcast on her Facebook page, disclosed that the Annandale and Hope Secondary Schools will be rehabilitated and extended to accommodate facilities they did not have before.
“On the East Coast, we don’t need a new school- a new secondary school that is- we just opened, two years ago, the Good Hope Secondary, but we are also expanding the Hope Secondary- extending as well as rehabilitating- and Annandale Secondary and putting in facilities they did not have before,” she disclosed. In August 2022, the government signed a US$44 million loan agreement with the World Bank through that project title.
It was reported that the project focuses on the expansion of access to quality education at the secondary level and improving technical and vocational training (TVET). The project will support the piloting and national rollout of a new curriculum for Grades Seven to Nine and finance textbooks for Grades Seven to Eleven. It will also see the development of a new TVET sector policy for 2022-2030 and improve the delivery of TVET at secondary and post-secondary institutions.
(Six contractors vying to build industrial block at Annandale Secondary)
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