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The Highways Department today (November 27) invited tenders for the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) Whitfield Depot re-provisioning works for the Central¡VWan Chai Bypass Project (Contract No HY/2009/17).
Under the invitation to tender gazetted today, the works mainly comprise:
(i) construction of a one-floor basement car park underneath the Island Eastern Corridor to re-provision the affected car parking facilities of the FEHD Whitfield Depot;
(ii) removal/re-provisioning of other affected facilities of the Depot including stores, office containers, a toilet, a pump house and water tank, and an automatic car washing machine;
(iii) relocation of an existing cul-de-sac at Watson Road;
(iv) advance piling works for the future Island Eastern Corridor Link reconstruction; and
(v) associated utility works.
The works are expected to commence in February 2010 and to be completed in March 2011.
The Major Works Project Management Office of the Highways Department has appointed AECOM Asia Company Limited to design and supervise the construction works. Interested contractors can obtain the forms for the tender and other particulars from AECOM Asia Company Limited on 12th floor, Grand Central Plaza, Tower 2, 138 Sha Tin Rural Committee Road, Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong.
Tender submissions should be placed in the Government Secretariat Tender Box located at the lift lobby on the lower ground floor of the Central Government Offices (East Wing), 20 Lower Albert Road, Hong Kong. Submission of tenders will be closed at noon on January 15, 2010 (Friday). For enquiries, please call 2605 6262.
The Central¡VWan Chai Bypass and Island Eastern Corridor Link form part of an east-west strategic route along the north shore of Hong Kong Island. Upon the completion of the project, the traffic congestion along the existing Gloucester Road - Harcourt Road - Connaught Road Central corridor will be alleviated.
Ends/Friday, November 27, 2009
Issued at HKT 16:11
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