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The Highways Department today (June 19) invited tenders for "Management, Operation, Installation and Maintenance of the Public Lighting System on Hong Kong Island and Lamma Island (2009-2013)".
Tender submissions should be placed at the Government Secretariat Tender Box in the lift lobby on the lower ground floor of the Central Government Offices (East Wing), 20 Lower Albert Road, Hong Kong. Closing date is noon on July 31.
The contract is a management-operation-maintenance contract for a term of four years from October 2009 to September 2013 for the design, installation, management, operation and maintenance of the public lighting system on Hong Kong Island and Lamma Island.
The public lighting system generally consists of conventional road lighting, village lighting, gantry sign lighting, roadside directional sign lighting, traffic bollard lighting, footbridge lighting, subway lighting, covered walkway lighting, ferry concourse lighting, tram shelter lighting and the associated network of cables, ducts and peripheral items. Within the designated contract area, there are about 18 200 road lighting points, 1 900 traffic bollards, 200 illuminated gantry signs and roadside directional signs, 110 footbridges and subways and 120 covered walkways, ferry concourses and tram shelters.
This tender is covered by the Agreement on Government Procurement of the World Trade Organization and the contract will be supervised by the Lighting Division of the Highways Department.
Ends/Friday, June 19, 2009
Issued at HKT 14:50
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