Balfour Beatty wins Ampang LRT extension job, Treasury papers show


PETALING JAYA, Jun twenty-seven Putrajaya has motionless to award the multi-million ringgit rail prolongation pursuit upon the Ampang line to the Balfour Beatty-Invensys Consortium, central documents disclosed by PKR today showed.
The rail builders led by the British engineering firm were the lowest bidders for the light rail transit (LRT) open tender which sealed upon Jun 16, 2011, charity to take upon the plan for RM950 million. The highest bid was RM1.45 billion.
PKR handed out copies of the mins of the January twenty-five Finance Ministry cabinet meeting, signed by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, which showed the supervision had motionless upon the builder, finale speculation over claims which an additional consortium led by local firm, George Kent Bhd, would win.
"In the mins of this meeting, George Kent's name was not even mentioned, and Najib himself signed the mins similar to select Balfour Beatty-Invensys Consortium as the executive for the project," PKR's arch strategist, Rafizi Ramli told reporters today.
The 34-year-old, who had led the expose opposite the RM250 million National Feedlot Centre (NFC) liaison which is now being tried in court, has previously questioned Najib's joining to fighting crime and misappropriation.
The Business Times had reported two days ago which the George Kent group, which had been knocked out in an progressing bid, was sloping to get the contract, triggering an outcry from opposition domestic parties.
The journal had cited sources with believe upon the make the difference as saying the winning bidder for the pursuit was approaching to be voiced by the supervision inside of the subsequent couple of days.
Eight groups had made the bid for the Ampang line prolongation systems contract.
The Business Times initial reported! which G eorge Kent may win the pursuit in July last year.
Prasarana, the fully-owned supervision company determined by the Finance Ministry, had budgeted RM1.5 billion for the system works.
Prasarana is spending some RM7 billion for the prolongation of both the Kelana Jaya and Ampang LRT rail networks.
The Ampang network will be extended by 17.7km.
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