Four out of 16 firms that expressed interest in the Ghana -Burkina Faso interconnectivity railway project between the port of Tema and Ouagadougou have successfully submitted their qualification documents.
They are the China Railway Construction Engineering Limited, Frontline Consortium, China Railway Number 10 Consortium and African Global Development. The remaining 12 were not successful because they were unable to submit their qualification documents as requested by a Joint Evaluation Committee and a Transaction Advisor.
The expression of interest by the firms followed advertisements simultaneously published in Ghana and Burkina Faso to invite interested private sector investors to partner government of the two countries for the project on a build, operate and Transfer (BOT) basis.
The objective of the railway interconnectivity project is to facilitate trade and development for both freight and passengers.
At a brief ceremony to officially open the bid session for the request for qualification stage in Accra Monday, the Minister of Railways Development, Joe Ghartey, said an independent Joint Evaluation Committee with membership from both Ghana and Burkina Faso would immediately commence an evaluation process of the documents.
