One month after it announced it would engage with China State Construc-tion Engineering Corpora-tion (CSCEC) for the building of the new Deme-rara Harbour Bridge, government is readying itself to commence negotiations with the company, according to Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill.
On November 1, government said that CSCEC submitted the lowest responsive bid and pending successful negotiations will be building the anticipated structure. CSCEC, in its tender document, pegg-ed the cost for the construction of the bridge at US$256,638,289 and it is based on the Design, Build and Finance (DBF) option, or Design, Build, Finance, Operate and Maintain (DBFOM).
In a brief comment to Stabroek News on Tuesday, Edghill said that they have since written to CSCEC for the commencement of the process but he is unsure of if the company responded.
