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The Highways Department today (June 8) invited tenders for management, operation, installation and maintenance of the public lighting system in New Territories West (2007-2011).
The contract is a management-operation-maintenance contract for a term of four years from October, 2007, to September, 2011 for the design, installation, management, operation and maintenance of the public lighting system in New Territories West.
The public lighting system generally consists of conventional road lighting, village lighting, gantry sign lighting, roadside directional sign lighting, traffic bollard lighting and the associated network of cables, ducts and peripheral items. Within the designated contract area, there are about 60,000 road lighting points, 3,000 traffic bollards and 500 illuminated gantry signs and roadside directional signs.
This tender is covered by the Agreement on Government Procurement of the World Trade Organization and the Lighting Division of the Highways Department will supervise the contractor to carry out the contract.
Ends/Friday, June 8, 2007
Issued at HKT 12:45
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