The Ministry of Home Affairs on Tuesday announced that bids are being invited for the design of a modern eight-storey Brickdam Police Station.
In a statement issued on its Facebook page, the Ministry of Home Affairs said the deadline for submission of bids is March 15th.
The statement said that bidding will be conducted through the National Competitive Bidding Procedures specified in the Procurement Act 2003.
More than 80 per cent of the Brickdam Police Station was destroyed in a fire on October 2 last year.
A Guyana Fire Service (GFS) investigation concluded that the fire was an act of arson.
The police had stated that a prisoner, Clarence Greene, who was in the lock-up at the time of the fire, confessed to starting it out of frustration. He was charged with arson and remanded to prison.
At the Region 4A annual thanksgiving and awards ceremony in December, Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn had announced that a modern 11-storey would be constructed to house the new police station.
A sum of $400 million has been allocated under the 2022 national budget for the construction of a new multi-storey Brickdam Police Station.
The sum, Benn had said is just the first tranche for the project.
On the sidelines of an event late last month, Benn had said that a number of designs for the steel structure are currently being explored.
“…This is the first tranche in relation to that investment. We already have three concept drawings and we are looking at the foundation and the footprint issues in relation to the building and then the internal detailing as to what we would have in consultation with the police for a new modern Brickdam Police Station, which will take us way into the next 30 or 40 years or more,” he said.
“The foundation works will have to be piled… it will be a steel structure, there will be a more open concept, the reticulation and those issues will have to be different and modern and also the fire protection,” Benn added.
