Qatar tenders largest World Cup stadium

Qatar has invited contractors to bid by August 1 for the contract to build the World Cup football stadium at Lusail, MEED reported.

The 80,000-seat stadium will be used for the final match of football’s Fifa 2022 World Cup.

The tender documents say that the maximum price for the tender is QAR 2.8 billion ($769 million), the report said. Construction is scheduled to start in December.

The companies that have been invited to bid for the construction deal are:

- Acciona (Spain) Redco Almana (local)

- China Railway Construction Corporation (China) / HBK (local)

- Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC – Athens-based) / Teyseer (local)

- Costruzioni Generali Gilardi (Italy) / Al-Jaber Trading (local)

- Enka (Turkey) / Contraco (local)

- Hyundai Engineering & Construction (South Korea)/Ed Zueblin (Germany)/Urbacon (local)

- Joannou & Paraskevaides (J&P – Cyprus) / J&P Qatar (local)

- Maltauro Gruppo (Italy) /Al-Sraiya (local)

- Ssangyong Engineering & Construction (South Korea) / Qatari Diar Saudi Binladin Group (local/Saudi Arabia)

- Tav Construction (Turkey) / CDC (local)

- Tekfen Construction (Turkey) / Aljaber Engineering (local)