UAE’s Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) for Hassyan Independent Water Producer project (IWP).
The plant will be designed using Sea Water Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) technology. The expected capacity of desalination plant is 120 Million Gallons Per Day (MIGD).
The RFP was issued to a total of nine qualified bidders. Earlier, DEWA has received 34 Request for Qualification (RFQ) documents for a 120 MIGD SWRO IWP project.
Subsequently, DEWA evaluated the proposals and shortlisted nine pre-qualified bidders to submit their proposals.
This will be the first water desalination project that DEWA will execute on the basis of Independent Water Producer (IWP) model.
DEWA stated in a statement that, it has adopted IWP for the Hassyan desalination plant, following the success of the Independent Power Producer (IPP) model at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park projects.
The SWRO project is expected to start operations in 2023. The SWRO desalination plant will use the most efficient, proven and reliable state-of-the art technology. The plant will provide a sustainable supply for DEWA’s water network.
“We are building production plants based on Reverse Osmosis (RO) which requires less energy than Multi-Stage Flash distillation (MSF) plants, making it a more sustainable choice for water desalination,” said HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of DEWA.
“The project is part of DEWA’s strategy to increase the water desalination capacity in Dubai to 750 MIGD, from 470 MIGD ” added Al Tayer.
At present, the closing date to submit the bids is 31 January 2020.
Earlier during May 2019, DEWA has appointed a consortium of companies including Ernst & Young (E&Y), CMS, and WSP as advisors for the IWP.
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