Nine companies yesterday submitted pre-qualification tenders for the building of a new Berbice River Bridge among them being four from China and three from India. The other two were Rockey & Son Construction, a local company and Aecon Global Services of Canada.
The names of all of the companies are shown in the table below.
President Irfaan Ali had in August told Stabroek News that plans were on stream for the bridge to match future development plans, not just for Berbice but the country.
“Of course it will be a four-lane bridge …one of the things that is important in the building of these new transformative infrastructural projects such as the bridges in Wismar, the Berbice Bridge the Demerara Bridge… is us looking at ways in which they will add to the competitiveness of the business environment and efficiency in the country,” the President told this newspaper.