Bids for Guyana power grid package total US$550mn

Five groups submitted offers in Guyana Power and Light’s (GPL) tender for a package of project engineering, procurement, construction contracts.

The proposals totaled US$552mn, according to procurement information. The process was launched in June with a call for expressions of interest.

The dispatch infrastructure is for the Demerara Berbice interconnected system, the country’s largest grid.

The following tables break down the required work by lot and the companies’ bids by lots.

Lot	Goods and Services
1	Construction of 10.5km of 69kV line across the Demerara and Berbice Rivers, respectively
2	Construction of 193km:28*13.8kV feeders and supply of distribution reinforcement equipment
3	Supply of two 35MVA, 69/13.8kV mobile substations
4	Supply of specialized hotline maintenance T&D tools and requisite training and certification
5	Construction of 42km:5*69kV lines, four 69/13.8kV substations and 17 feeders ~6km per feeder
6	Supply and installation of 30MW/15MWh battery energy storage systems
7	Supply and installation of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), 20,000 AMI meters and training
8	Upgrade and expansion of two 69/13.8kV substations

Bidder	Lot	US$ millions
Premol Industrial Construction & Services Guyana, Element Holdings International, Integrated Offshore Services, Eletrowoltes, Elektron Cconstruções Eletricas (consortium)	2	26.2
	5	15.9
	7	12.3
Fixit Depot	3	3
	4	2.28
	7	6.68
Itron	7	4.03
China National Machinery Import & Export	2	15.6
	3	3.25
	5	50.3
	8	7.63
Kalpataru Projects International	2	58.7
	3	5.34
	5A	157
	5B	159
	8	25.1
Engineer's estimate total lots		200

GPL also has bidding underway to expand substations in Vreed-en-Hoop and Kingston and for the Guysol utility-scale solar capacity and associated battery energy storage program.