NEW YORK: The Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA) has issued tenders for a range of consultancy services and engineering designs, which are to underpin the development of several ports.
These include a request for interest in consultancy services for feasibility studies and preliminary engineering designs for development of new ports at Kilwa, Lindi and Rushungi, plus a transhipment hub along the coast of the Indian Ocean.
Another notice hopes to attract consultancy services and engineering designs for the construction of four berths at Mtwara Port.
The TPA has set aside funds in the fiscal year 2015/16 towards the cost of cost of studies geared towards development of new ports.
In one of several notices, the TPA said: “The objective of this assignment is to undertake the study that determines economic, financial and technical viability of developing new ports at Kilwa, Lindi and Rushungi.”
“The consultancy services shall also include identification of a suitable location for development and preliminary engineering designs for transshipment hub along the coast of the Indian Ocean.”
The winning bidder will need to provide “detailed assessment of economic, financial, technical and environmental aspects” of the future developments whilst meeting the TPA’s cost and timescale requirements, it added.
Regarding the proposed facilities at Kilwa, Lindi and Rushungi, applicants will have to provide cargo and traffic forecasts, advise the TPA on the optimum land required, provide preliminary designs for the ports’ layouts.
They must also recommend equipment, mode of operation and staffing for the ports, provide optimal designs for the yards, sheds, offices, roads and terminal utilities and develop viable plans to mitigate environmental impacts associated with the dredging and construction works.
For Mtwara, bidders need to detailed designs with confidential cost estimates for four berths with a total length of 1,200 m.
The winner will assist in the tendering processes for the construction of one of the berths with a length of 300 m and thereafter, supervise the construction works for this berth.
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