Published: 26 August 2013

INDIAN firm, Indure Private Limited has won a $11 million tender to rehabilitate and upgrade the ash plant at the Hwange Thermal Power Station.

The project is financed by the Zimbabwe Multi Donor Trust Management Unit, a group of donors established to contribute to Zimbabwe's infrastructure recovery and is administered by the Africa Development Bank. Indure won the contract ahead of Macawber Beekay of India and Hamon J&C Engineering of South Africa.

The bid price of Macawber was $15,1 million and $19,4 million for Hamon, the AfDB said in a statement. The project is expected to take eight months.

"The ash plant upgrade and rehabilitation scope comprises the design, supply, demolition, construction and commissioning of the ash plant for stage 1 and stage 2 power plant at Hwange Thermal Power Station," said AfDB. The station was built in two stages. The first four units were commissioned between 1983 and 1986 and the other two units were commissioned between 1986 and 1987.

The fund was established in 2010 and the contributors to the fund include Australia, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom while the African Development Bank manages it on behalf of the donors. Donors' commitments to the Zim-Fund in various currencies, reached $80,5 million in 2011.
- herald

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