National Water Company signed a 15-year contract worth more than SAR 1.3 billion for nine sewage treatment plants on 2 September 2026, and two more packages of its long-term operation and maintenance programme are now in tender, with a third reported awarded.
A 19-package programme
The programme places existing sewage treatment plants under 15-year contracts for rehabilitation, operation and maintenance. It has 19 packages in two phases. Phase one, nine packages worth US$2.5 billion, is awarded. Phase two covers 10 packages and 117 plants.
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Package 14, in the Eastern cluster, covers six plants with an estimated cost of US$180 million and a bid deadline extended to 30 November 2026. Package 16 covers 14 plants with 153,000 m³ a day of design capacity; letters of intent are due on 22 February 2027 and bids on 3 May 2027. Package 12, seven plants with about 162,000 m³ a day, was reported awarded to Al-Yamama on 30 October 2026; formal signing has not been announced.
The latest signed contract
Package 10 went to Armada and Zhangzhou United Waters. Its nine plants, from Unaizah to Turaif, have more than 337,000 m³ a day of capacity, and treatment is billed at SAR 0.69 per m³. The same consortium won package 11, at about 440,000 m³ a day, with signing expected.
More to come
When it signed package 10, the company said 51 more plants, with close to 888,000 m³ a day of capacity, were due to be tendered within the year.
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