MELAKA – Tenders to appoint a third replacement contractor to complete Phase Two of the Sg Melaka Cleanup and Beautification Project under Package One is expected to be opened in March.
Melaka Chief Minister Datuk Seri Sulaiman Md Ali said the project, with about 20% left abandoned for almost two years, involves 17 development components and the allocation of its remainder came from the Environment and Water Ministry during the previous administration.
“Interested contractors are given a period of around three months to prepare tender documents and the work must be completed with a ceiling of RM30 million.
“The work needs to be completed in 18 months from the site handover date and we are expecting it to be fully completed by 2025,” he told reporters after visiting the project site here today.
He expressed hope that the appointed contractor would be able to complete several components by next year as 2024 would be Visit Melaka Year.
He said the original contractor and both replacement contractors after that had their services terminated as they failed to complete the project within the stipulated time, besides the change in state administration.
Meanwhile, Sulaiman said there was damage to some infrastructure under the project’s second and third packages that had been handed over in stages previously, and that repairs needed to be done immediately.
“I have been informed that the allocation for repairs under the second and third packages are already available and the appointment of contractors will be made after Budget 2023 is tabled by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim,” he added.
The RM350 million Phase Two of the Sg Melaka project was launched in 2012 and involved work along an area of 5.2km starting from the Hang Jebat Bridge to the Batu Hampar tidal control gates here. – Bernama, February 14, 2023
