Office of Civil Engineering
The Office of Civil Engineering has been given the final approval to begin accepting bids for the construction of Guiana Canal Project.
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The Project has been divided into seven parts, with the beginning of construction to start as soon as feasible.
Part 1 - Construction of all weather roads and airstrips. The road will extend from both Linden on the east coast and Port Wellington on the west coast to the construction sites. This will be an ongoing project thoughout the construction of the canal while airstrips will be done on an as-needed basis. This part will be divided into a Linden and a Wellington sections for bidding and construction purposes.
Part 2 - Storage dam located on the Cuyuni River. The resevoir that will be created will allow the maintaining of water levels of the canal.
Part 3 - The digging of channels, and deepening of natural ones, that will allow passage of oceangoing vessels upon the completion of Part 4.
Part 4 - Construction of three dams, on the Amakura, Kaituma, and Barima Riveers to create artificial lakes. These lakes will be interconected through natural or constructed channels allowing passage of oceangoing vessels. Each dam will be bidded on seperately.
Part 5 - Construction of canals connecting the artificial lakes to both the east coast and the west coast. The Canals will be divided into and East and a West section, with the East section the larger project and will be contain 2 sets of locks.
Part 6 - The contruction of three sets of locks, large enough to accepted specified size of oceangoing vessels. Each lock will be bidded on seperately with Locks #1 being the eastern most set and Locks#3 being the western most.
Part 7 - The construction of four bridges spanning the canal to allow both vehicle and rail traffic to cross.
Part 8 - Ocean dredging both ends of the canal. This too will be divided into East and West.
Time Schedule - The estimated time for completion is 10yrs upon official start of the project as more than one part will be under construction at the same time.
Bids - Bids will be international as companies from all over Europe are urged to consider the project and it's various parts and phases.
Submitted Bids
Part 1:
- Marquette Electric
- Hodgson-Baxter Infrastructural Engineering Company
Part 2:
- Marquette Electric
Part 3:
- Marquette Electric
Part 4:
- Marquette Electric
- GTB HochTief
Part 5:
- Eastern Canal
- Aries Engineering
- GTB HochTief
- Western Canal
- GTB HochTief
Part 6:
- Lock #1
- Aries Engineering
- GTB HochTief
- Lock #2
- Aries Engineering
- GTB HochTief
- Lock #3
- GTB HochTief
- Bridge #1
- Aries Engineering
- GTB HochTief
- Bridge #2
- Aries Engineering
- GTB HochTief
- Bridge #3
- GTB HochTief
- Aries Engineering
- Bridge #4
- GTB HochTief
- East
- NavAl, The National Naval Altaic Company
- Newcastle Dredging and Marine Contractors
- West
- Newcastle Dredging and Marine Contractors
OOC: Don't bother to submit actual bids but instead post the name of the company and a short history of past projects and perhaps even present projects and ones scheduled for the future as well.