The Ministry of Public Works and the Central Agency for Public Tenders (CAPT) are negotiating deals with companies to maintain and operate rainwater pumping stations for tunnels on highways.<\/p>\n
Al-Jarida daily quoting the public works authority said bids from six companies have been received and the documents will be submitted to CAPT within 30 days to choose the company to carry out maintenance work on these stations, the task of which is to prevent the water from collecting in one area which puts pressure on the water drainage systems during \u2018heavy downpour\u2019.<\/p>\n
The sources indicated the goal of the project is to maintain and operate rainwater pumping stations located at low lying areas on highways and tunnels, and that the scope of services includes “operation, preventive maintenance, design maintenance, replacement, improvement of facilities, services and training”, to improve the efficiency of the stations to reduce flooding and to prevent the repetition of what the country witnessed in 2018 rainy when several areas remained under water and caused a major traffic crisis in the country because the rains that did not stop for several days. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Ministry of Public Works and the Central Agency for Public Tenders (CAPT) are negotiating deals with companies to maintain and operate rainwater pumping stations for tunnels on highways. Al-Jarida daily quoting the public works authority said bids from six companies have been received and the documents will be submitted to CAPT within 30 days […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,18],"tags":[60,2479,2142],"class_list":["post-86176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-local","tag-kuwait","tag-mpw","tag-public-works"],"yoast_head":"\n