Malawi roads body releases five roads assignments

15th February 2013

By: Marcel Chimwala

Creamer Media Correspondent

  

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The Malawi Roads Authority (MRA) is inviting proposals from consulting firms for five assignments to be undertaken in preparation for multimillion-dollar road projects.

The assignments include provision of consultancy services for the feasibility study and detailed engineering designs of the Ntcheu–Kasinje, Rumphi–Nyika–Chitipa, Dzeleka–Mwangala–Ntchisi–Mpalo–Malomo and Mtunthama–Wimbe-Kapelula roads.

In the fifth assignment, the authority is seeking consulting firms to undertake general road-sector studies.
“Consulting firms are invited to bid for any of the five assignments. The MRA will, however, award a maximum of two contracts per consulting firm, subject to previous performance on similar or any other consultancy assignments and current workload where consultants’ proposals may have been the best evaluated bid on more than one bid,” says the authority.

It says interested consulting firms may obtain request-for-proposals documents and further information from its offices in Lilongwe from January 28 and that the deadline for the submission of proposals is March 13.

Meanwhile, construction of the 13 km Lilongwe city west bypass road, which is part of the multinational Nacala Road Corridor Programme, has started.

Portuguese contractor Mota-Engil is building the road, which is being financed by the African Development Bank (AfDB).
Kenya President Mwai Kibaki inaugurated the project during his recent official visit to Malawi.

Kibaki, who was accompanied by Malawi’s President Joyce Banda, said the road would contribute to improving inter-State trade in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa region.

“Infrastructure upgrade and expansion are at the centre of business reforms. This is because infrastructure acts as the key enabler of socioeconomic development in any country,” said Kibaki.

For her part, Banda said the road would help to reduce congestion in Lilongwe as it would allow some traffic to Zambia and other parts of Malawi to bypass the city.

“Construction of this road bears witness to my government’s commitment to improving the socioeconomic wellbeing of Malawians by providing improved mobility, access and connectivity for our nation’s socioeconomic development,” said Banda.

The AfDB is also financing Mota-Engil’s construction of the Blantyre–Zomba road, in southern Malawi, as part of the Nacala Road Corridor Programme.

 

Edited by Martin Zhuwakinyu
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

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