NEOM Oxagon modular wastewater treatment plant – design-build-operate tender with extended deadline

Enowa, the water company of NEOM in Saudi Arabia, is tendering a temporary wastewater treatment plant for Oxagon, NEOM's industrial cluster. This page is based only on a Smart Water Magazine news item, which cites MEED. No official notice, tender documents, selection criteria or award criteria were available. The tender replaces an earlier approach: the previous tender for the Oxagon Village Water Recycling Plant was cancelled in 2024. Companies from that earlier process, including PowerChina, Alfanar and Orascom, are expected to take part.

The contract follows a design-build-operate (DBO) model. The scope covers design, supply, installation and testing of the plant, followed by three years of operation. The plant has two parts:

• an industrial wastewater treatment module with an initial capacity of 35,000 m³/day, expandable to 45,000 m³/day;
• a sanitary wastewater treatment module with a capacity of 1,000 m³/day.

The plant must be modular and dismantlable so that it can be relocated as development of the area progresses.

The article does not give:

• the contract value;
• the procedure type;
• a Q&A deadline or start date;
• submission arrangements or the language of the bid.

The only evaluation information is that commercial evaluations will also consider potential financing support from export credit agencies. No weighting is given.

The bid submission deadline was originally 2 October. It has been extended to 25 October; the article does not state the year. Formal eligibility, reference, staffing and technical requirements are not public in the available source. They would be set out in Enowa's tender documents, which were not provided. The requirements listed below come only from the scope described in the article.