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Yadot Engineering Plc won a 13 mln Br contract to
install a system that will provide clean water to
the fast-growing town of Nekemt in the Oromia
Regional State.
The Oromia Water Resources Bureau awarded the
company a contract on December 17 for the
installation of the Electro Mechanical Work after
attracting several competing bids in a tender for
the work. Nekemt, one of the oldest towns in the
southwest rim of the country, is located 327km from
Addis Abeba.
The town’s population has doubled over the past 25
years to 100,000 residents, while water
infrastructure has remained virtually unchanged,
leaving half of the residents without access to
clean drinking water, accordingn to data available
at the region’s water resources bureau.
Students at the newly founded Nekemt University have
been growing increasingly frustrated with the
situation, a female student who was admitted during
the current academic year, told Fortune. She
said water has been in short in the town for years.
Officials from the region’s Water Resources Bureau
share the general concern of the residents and have
now budgeted 47 million Br to harvest clean water
from Chancho River by building dams, among other
things.
Projects are also underway to drill three wells
ranging from 130m to 140m to fetch ground water for
the residents of Nekemt. It was leant that six
kilometres outside of the town, the bureau has
already started to drill.
In June 2007, the bureau floated a tender to hire a
company that would install the Electro Mechanical
device to distribute clean water for the residents
from the dams of Chancho River and the three wells.
The tender for the project attracted such companies
as Yadot, Saba Construction Plc, Hagbes, Watt
International and ACME Engineering & Trade to bid.
After four months evaluating the documents presented
by the five bidders, the Oromia Water Resources
Bureau informed Yadot it had been awarded the
contract in a letter sent last week.
According to one of the officers at the bureau, a
formal agreement between the bureau and Yadot
Engineering Plc will be signed next week.
Motuma Mekassa, Head of the Oromia Water Recourses
Bureau, confirmed the decision and said, “We
selected Yadot, but we will negotiate further on its
financial proposal”.
Yadot Engineering is a subsidiary of Yadot Business
Group Plc, established in 1991 with 25 mln Br
capital.
Previously Yadot carried out the Zeway and Gore
water supply projects, built the Gonder water
pumping station and managed the rehabilitation and
extension projects of the water supply in eight
towns in Amhara and Tigray regions.
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