MIRPUR – Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) hasreceived pre-qualification bids from as many as five joint ventures offoreign and local firms through international competitive bidding forconstruction of main dam and appurtenant structures of Diamer Bhasha DamProject.
“The pre-qualification bids would be evaluated in accordance with the biddocuments and the relevant procurement rules of the Public ProcurementRegulatory Authority (PPRA) and the Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC),” aspokesman of Wapda said Wednesday.
Diamer Bhasha Dam is a multipurpose project aiming at water storage, floodmitigation and power generation. The project will be constructed acrossRiver Indus about 40-kilometer downstream of Chillas town.
The 272-meter high Roller Compacted Concrete (RCC) Dam will have a grosswater storage capacity of 8.1 million acre feet (MAF). The project willgenerate 4,500 megawatt of electricity with annual energy generation ofmore than 18 billion units of low-cost and environment friendly electricity.
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With construction of Diamer Basha Dam Project, the life of Tarbela Dam willenhance to another 35 years. It will also have a positive impact on theannual energy generation of the projects in the downstream areas, thespokesman said.
It is estimated that the annual energy generation of the existing hydelpower stations including Tarbela, Ghazi Barotha, Jinnah and Chashma willincrease by about 2.5 billion per annum, while annual energy generation ofthe future hydropower projects including Dasu, Pattan and Thakot will alsosurge by another 7.5 billion units, he added.
