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Showing posts with label MRT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MRT. Show all posts
Monday, December 22, 2014
The 31 MRT Stationes
The MRT line from Sungai Buloh to Kajang is known as Line 1. The names of the 31 stations have been finalised.
Friday, October 31, 2014
MRT2 Projects and Gamuda
The total MRT2 projects is expected to cost RM23bil as per the budget 2015 and the major tender will be awarded in 2016.
It will span 56km with 45km elevated with 27 stations. Eleven km will be underground it comes with eight stations.
MMC Gamuda has been selected as the PDP (Project Delivery Partner) by Mass Rapid Transit Corp to carry out the Sungai Buluh to Putra Jaya LRT. The contract is expected to be clinched as the LRT1 project is reaching the tail ends. The JV is also expected to secure the tunneling package which is cost around RM8bil to RM9bil
It will span 56km with 45km elevated with 27 stations. Eleven km will be underground it comes with eight stations.
MMC Gamuda has been selected as the PDP (Project Delivery Partner) by Mass Rapid Transit Corp to carry out the Sungai Buluh to Putra Jaya LRT. The contract is expected to be clinched as the LRT1 project is reaching the tail ends. The JV is also expected to secure the tunneling package which is cost around RM8bil to RM9bil
Friday, September 28, 2012
George Kent is Capable Said Najib
The Malaysian PM is coming out to defend the contractor George Kent. In the newspaper report, it was said that..." the company was able to meet the criteria stipulated in the contract and offered the second lowest out of 8 bidders". It seem odd to the majority of the people, how could the company get the contract. Consider this...
a. The contract awarded is RM1.08billion.
b. George main business .. water meter and water infrastructure.
c. Size of the company...2011 total sale rm165million.
d. About Balfour Beatty --- 2011 total sale USD3.5billion
From freemalaysia site... "Copies of official documents given to the press showed that Najib had signed the approval to award the contract to Balfour Beatty Invensys Consortium, but he was later said to be keen on granting the project to George Kent consortium instead."
I am sure that there is a criteria and selection guides designed in the selection process. The selected company will then sign the contract. It had never been done that the ability to meet the contract is used to select a company. What happen if all 8 are able to meet the contract. Would you trust a person who has never build a single rail track to take the project.
If you want to build a house, not many people will give the project to a contractor who says.. "I have never build a house before..."
a. The contract awarded is RM1.08billion.
b. George main business .. water meter and water infrastructure.
c. Size of the company...2011 total sale rm165million.
d. About Balfour Beatty --- 2011 total sale USD3.5billion
From freemalaysia site... "Copies of official documents given to the press showed that Najib had signed the approval to award the contract to Balfour Beatty Invensys Consortium, but he was later said to be keen on granting the project to George Kent consortium instead."
I am sure that there is a criteria and selection guides designed in the selection process. The selected company will then sign the contract. It had never been done that the ability to meet the contract is used to select a company. What happen if all 8 are able to meet the contract. Would you trust a person who has never build a single rail track to take the project.
If you want to build a house, not many people will give the project to a contractor who says.. "I have never build a house before..."
Friday, August 31, 2012
George Kent Awarded The Ampang MRT
George Kent, a company specializing in making meters for water meters was awarded the contract to upgrade the Ampang LRT.
About George Kent..."George Kent is an engineering company involved in manufacturing, trading and investment and development of water infrastructure projects. The core business is in the water industry. It has contributed to the nation’s manufacturing growth by building up over the years to become the leader in the region in brass products manufacturing. George Kent is the market leader in the supply of control instrumentation, telemetry, pipes, valves and ļ¬ttings, industrial and domestic water meters, boilers, incinerators and building automation systems..." ... extracted from 2011 annual report..
The Star paper on 31 July published the news about the awards... KUALA LUMPUR: Syarikat Prasarana Negara Bhd has awarded the George Kent-Lion Pacific joint venture the contract to undertake the system works for the Ampang LRT line extension project.
Prasarana, which is the project and asset owner of the LRT line extension project, had on Tuesday said the contract would involve the engineering, procurement, construction, testing and commissioning. "The JV is 100% locally-owned companies and is well supported by reputable local and international multi-disciplinary technical partners; all with proven track records in their respective field of systems implementation expertise," it said.
The general public are screeching the heads wondering the basis of the tender award. The government is saying that they company will be working with established and experience international organisations to implement the project. The will draw upon the experiences of these organisations.
I wonder what strategies these people in power are thinking about..
But then the results show.. we are well behind Singapore in almost all fields.. That reflect the leadership we are having...
About George Kent..."George Kent is an engineering company involved in manufacturing, trading and investment and development of water infrastructure projects. The core business is in the water industry. It has contributed to the nation’s manufacturing growth by building up over the years to become the leader in the region in brass products manufacturing. George Kent is the market leader in the supply of control instrumentation, telemetry, pipes, valves and ļ¬ttings, industrial and domestic water meters, boilers, incinerators and building automation systems..." ... extracted from 2011 annual report..
The Star paper on 31 July published the news about the awards... KUALA LUMPUR: Syarikat Prasarana Negara Bhd has awarded the George Kent-Lion Pacific joint venture the contract to undertake the system works for the Ampang LRT line extension project.
Prasarana, which is the project and asset owner of the LRT line extension project, had on Tuesday said the contract would involve the engineering, procurement, construction, testing and commissioning. "The JV is 100% locally-owned companies and is well supported by reputable local and international multi-disciplinary technical partners; all with proven track records in their respective field of systems implementation expertise," it said.
The general public are screeching the heads wondering the basis of the tender award. The government is saying that they company will be working with established and experience international organisations to implement the project. The will draw upon the experiences of these organisations.
I wonder what strategies these people in power are thinking about..
But then the results show.. we are well behind Singapore in almost all fields.. That reflect the leadership we are having...
Thursday, July 19, 2012
KL LRT GEORGE KENT AWAITS
It is reported in the star that the company George Kent is still awaiting the award of the LRT extension "tender".
The paper quoted that the chairman of the company is still awaiting the award of the Ampang LRT extension costing rm960mil. The tender was closed 16 Jun last year. The other bidders were:
- Invensys-Balfour Beatty Rail-Ingress consortium,
- Posco-Sojitz-Daewoo International-Thales group,
- Colas-CMC Engineering-Thales,
- Samsung-LG-Thales,
-SNC Lavalin-WW Engineering-Bombardier,
- Siemens-Scomi Engineering and
- Ansaldo-Emrail-Leighton.
About George Kent.
2007 - It was reported that George Kent pushes forward banking on its infrastructure investments and manufacturing of water meters to drive future earnings.
GKM is the Malaysian’s oldest and largest manufacturer of water meters. Its current business is divided into manufacturing of meters and non-meter products, infrastructure contracts and investments as well as building services.
2011 - profit before tax rm26 million
Sunday, April 15, 2012
MRT Construction Packages
The English daily carried the news that two more of the MRT construction packages to be announced. I think the announcement is nicely time to coincide with the coming general election, as the benefits are numerous.
So far, only 2 of the packages were announced. They were:
V5 - awarded to IJM construction with the estimated value of rm947mil.
V6 - awarded to Ahmad Zaki with the value of rm764m
The next two to be announced are:
- V1 - Sungai Buluh to Kota Damansara. The segment is considered a Bumi section with 8 qualified companies eyeing the job.
- V4 - Section 16 Petaling Jaya to Semantan. This is an open sectors, that mean, the any companies can bet for the contract. There are 11 companies qualified to compete for the work.
There are a total of 8 packages with average value of rm500mil, making the MRT the largest project in Malaysia.
The project saw the creation of a new entity called PDP, the project delivery partner. The term of reference is not clear and it is a foreign concept unfamiliar to the developed nations. The earlier government projects were widely criticized, as experienced by the submarine project which involved a commission of rm500million paid to a company associated with high ranking person.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Kuala Lumpur MRT to be RM50bil
The latest estimate is, the 150 km Mass Rapid Transport will cost 50,000,000,000 this is RM 50b.
When Gamuda - MMC estimated the cost about 2 years ago, it was using the 2009 costing.
Even the single line of Sungai Buluh to Kajang will cost RM18b plus land acquisition.
The full story was covered by the Star on 5 Mac 2011.
Saturday March 5, 2011
MRT project cost now estimated to reach RM50b
By EDY SARIF and THEAN LEE CHENG
starbiz@thestar.com.my
PETALING JAYA: The construction cost of the entire 150km Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) urban transport project may run up to RM50bil, three sources said, two of whom are directly involved in the project. The third is an independent party doing consulting work for the MRT line.
“When Gamuda-MMC first gave an estimate a couple of years ago, a figure of RM36.6bil was brought up for the 150km line,” said the source who is directly involved with the project.
“Now that we are concentrating on one line Sg Buloh-Kajang we have asked them for an estimate and they said it may cost RM18bil to RM20bil to construct. This does not include the rolling stock, land acquisitions and other provisions.”
Land Public Transport Commission chief executive officer Mohd Nur Ismal Kamal said the Government was doing all it could to drive down the cost.
“With land acquisition and rolling stock, it could come up to RM50bil, but it is too early to say,” he said. “We will know the full picture later as the project is still at the public display stage. This will end in middle of May.”
“From the feedback, we will then consider the alignment and the length of the platforms for the stations, whether it is a four-car train or more,” Mohd Nur added.
He said that once the public display was over, a target cost would be worked and agreed on. Once the tender was over, it may be different from the target cost, he said.
“The MRT is not just a transport project. It will have a catalytic effect,” Mohd Nur said, adding that an independent party would scrutinise the project plans and ensure that optimum value was derived.
The entire project will be fully funded by the Government and a special-purpose vehicle under the Finance Ministry would be set up to advise, manage and raise the funds.
CIMB Research in its report yesterday said that the higher cost for the Sungai Buloh-Kajang line was not a surprise as the earlier number was based on 2009 prices. (Higher construction cost and inflation may contribute to the current cost which is estimated to reach RM20bil for the Sg Buloh-Kajang line.)
“Based on the average RM353m/km for the line, the entire MRT project (150km) could be worth RM53bil compared with the current estimate of RM36bil,” it said, commenting on the outcome of Syarikat Prasarana Negara Bhd's contractors' briefing on Thursday.
The briefing was to provide an overview of the MRT project and the job opportunities available.
The event was packed with more than 100 contractors, according to a Prasarana spokesman when contacted by StarBizWeek.
Prasarana project director Zulkifli Mohammad Yusof and Datuk Azmi Mat Nor, who represented the Project Development Partner (PDP), chaired the event. (MMC-Gamuda JV Sdn Bhd manages the project as the PDP.)
CIMB Research said the briefing focused on the Sg Buloh-Kajang MRT line's project structure, alignment specifications, tender guidelines/timelines and updated cost breakdown.
“The main takeaways from the briefing were the prequalification process that will start this month and the total estimated cost for Sungai Buloh-Kajang MRT line that is RM20bil,” it said.
It said Prasarana would start the ball rolling with the elevated structure package (elevated portion is worth RM10.8bil of the total cost of RM20bil) which would be broken up into several sub-packages and was open to all contractors except the PDP.
“Priority will be given to contractors with financial strength, expertise and track record. Contractors who do not prequalify will still be able to bid for the subcontracting packages,” it said.
It added that this suggested the awards were likely to take place no earlier than May 11, while the July 11 timeline for the start of work was still intact.
Prasarana and the PDP will work together in rolling out the award of the MRT packages and disbursing the funds via progress payments.
“Funding/payment will be drawn down from a special company under the Finance Ministry,” it said.
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Beside the issues of the his cost, more questions and issues was raised.
Among them:
1. People of Tan Tun were unhappy with the unprofessional way of giving notice of land acquisition. How did MRT do it. The hang the notice on the surrounding trees. May be the persons from MRT were seeing too much of the ancient movies, in the era of Malacca Sultanate.
2. Is Pasarana the qualified company for the job? Reasons:
a. Financial standing - Pasarana is in deep debts of rm9.4bil and matured bonds in tune of rm7.1 bil. Some may twist and argue, that the debts is the reason why Pasarana has to be given the job. The company will bot have the financial problem after the RM50b project.
3. Pasarana is also making money from the property deals.
When Gamuda - MMC estimated the cost about 2 years ago, it was using the 2009 costing.
Even the single line of Sungai Buluh to Kajang will cost RM18b plus land acquisition.
The full story was covered by the Star on 5 Mac 2011.
Saturday March 5, 2011
MRT project cost now estimated to reach RM50b
By EDY SARIF and THEAN LEE CHENG
starbiz@thestar.com.my
PETALING JAYA: The construction cost of the entire 150km Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) urban transport project may run up to RM50bil, three sources said, two of whom are directly involved in the project. The third is an independent party doing consulting work for the MRT line.
“When Gamuda-MMC first gave an estimate a couple of years ago, a figure of RM36.6bil was brought up for the 150km line,” said the source who is directly involved with the project.
“Now that we are concentrating on one line Sg Buloh-Kajang we have asked them for an estimate and they said it may cost RM18bil to RM20bil to construct. This does not include the rolling stock, land acquisitions and other provisions.”
Land Public Transport Commission chief executive officer Mohd Nur Ismal Kamal said the Government was doing all it could to drive down the cost.
“With land acquisition and rolling stock, it could come up to RM50bil, but it is too early to say,” he said. “We will know the full picture later as the project is still at the public display stage. This will end in middle of May.”
“From the feedback, we will then consider the alignment and the length of the platforms for the stations, whether it is a four-car train or more,” Mohd Nur added.
He said that once the public display was over, a target cost would be worked and agreed on. Once the tender was over, it may be different from the target cost, he said.
“The MRT is not just a transport project. It will have a catalytic effect,” Mohd Nur said, adding that an independent party would scrutinise the project plans and ensure that optimum value was derived.
The entire project will be fully funded by the Government and a special-purpose vehicle under the Finance Ministry would be set up to advise, manage and raise the funds.
CIMB Research in its report yesterday said that the higher cost for the Sungai Buloh-Kajang line was not a surprise as the earlier number was based on 2009 prices. (Higher construction cost and inflation may contribute to the current cost which is estimated to reach RM20bil for the Sg Buloh-Kajang line.)
“Based on the average RM353m/km for the line, the entire MRT project (150km) could be worth RM53bil compared with the current estimate of RM36bil,” it said, commenting on the outcome of Syarikat Prasarana Negara Bhd's contractors' briefing on Thursday.
The briefing was to provide an overview of the MRT project and the job opportunities available.
The event was packed with more than 100 contractors, according to a Prasarana spokesman when contacted by StarBizWeek.
Prasarana project director Zulkifli Mohammad Yusof and Datuk Azmi Mat Nor, who represented the Project Development Partner (PDP), chaired the event. (MMC-Gamuda JV Sdn Bhd manages the project as the PDP.)
CIMB Research said the briefing focused on the Sg Buloh-Kajang MRT line's project structure, alignment specifications, tender guidelines/timelines and updated cost breakdown.
“The main takeaways from the briefing were the prequalification process that will start this month and the total estimated cost for Sungai Buloh-Kajang MRT line that is RM20bil,” it said.
It said Prasarana would start the ball rolling with the elevated structure package (elevated portion is worth RM10.8bil of the total cost of RM20bil) which would be broken up into several sub-packages and was open to all contractors except the PDP.
“Priority will be given to contractors with financial strength, expertise and track record. Contractors who do not prequalify will still be able to bid for the subcontracting packages,” it said.
It added that this suggested the awards were likely to take place no earlier than May 11, while the July 11 timeline for the start of work was still intact.
Prasarana and the PDP will work together in rolling out the award of the MRT packages and disbursing the funds via progress payments.
“Funding/payment will be drawn down from a special company under the Finance Ministry,” it said.
====================================
Beside the issues of the his cost, more questions and issues was raised.
Among them:
1. People of Tan Tun were unhappy with the unprofessional way of giving notice of land acquisition. How did MRT do it. The hang the notice on the surrounding trees. May be the persons from MRT were seeing too much of the ancient movies, in the era of Malacca Sultanate.
2. Is Pasarana the qualified company for the job? Reasons:
a. Financial standing - Pasarana is in deep debts of rm9.4bil and matured bonds in tune of rm7.1 bil. Some may twist and argue, that the debts is the reason why Pasarana has to be given the job. The company will bot have the financial problem after the RM50b project.
3. Pasarana is also making money from the property deals.
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