$13.8M to French Firm for Umm Qasr Electrical Substation Equipment

VATECH Transmission and Distribution SA in Grenoble, France won a $13.8 million firm-fixed-price contract for Electrical Equipment for the New 132/133/11kV GIS Substation at the port of Umm Qasr, Iraq (W91GXY-06-C-0037). Work is expected to be completed by Jan. 24, 2007. There were an unknown number of bids solicited via the World Wide Web on June 28, 2005, and eight bids were received by the Joint Contracting Command in Baghdad.