L&T puts lowest bid in for Sohar airport contract.

Larsen & Toubro (Oman) has put in the lowest bid to build a passenger terminal and other support facilities at Sohar Airport. The company submitted an $89.7mn (OMR34.54mn) bid, which was 23.9% lower than the closest competing bid from Carillion Alawi at $117.9mn (OMR45.38mn). Oman�s Tender Board website also showed Joannou and Paraskevaides Oman as having submitted a $143.9mn (OMR55.39mn) bid, while Strabag Oman priced the job at $159.7mn (OMR61.48mn). The final layers of the 4km-long runway, aircraft taxiways, roads, fuel station, runway lighting systems, aircraft fuelling system and setting up of equipment required for the operation of the airport are among the projects required by the third package. Sohar airport project's first and second packages have already been completed. This included civil and infrastructure work, such as construction of the 4km runway, 30km of airport service roads, as well as a rainwater protection system. Further work included the construction of an outer fence, a security fence, power plants and a wastewater treatment plant along with pumping stations for a water distribution network, a communications network, and fire system. In July, L&T won a $94.2mn (OMR36.27mn) contract to build a passenger terminal at Duqm airport. The company was the lowest bidder among three companies that submitted bids for the project. Sohar airport project�s first and second packages have already been completed. This included civil and infrastructure work, such as construction of the 4km runway, 30km of airport service roads, as well as a rainwater protection system. Further work included the construction of an outer fence, a security fence, power plants and a wastewater treatment plant along with pumping stations for a water distribution network, a communications network, and fire system. In July, L&T won a $94.2mn (OMR36.27mn) contract to build a passenger terminal at Duqm airport. The company was the lowest bidder among three companies that submitted bids for the project. The terminal building at Sohar Airport is designed to handle half a million