Malaysia’s deputy prime minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has called for contractors to be screened before being allowed to bid for work to reduce what he called “unhealthy competition”. Speaking at…

For winning work, bid-writing is perhaps the most critical – and misunderstood – role in the industry. In the 1980s and 1990s, tendering for government construction projects was driven almost…

A Polish contractor bidding for a road maintenance project in the southeastern Małopolska region has had its abnormally low bid excluded by the country’s National Appeals Chamber because its explanation…

Polish megaproject Centralny Port Komunikacyjny (CPK) has launched a tender to select a general contract engineer – also known as a delivery partner – for the construction of its new…

With new powers to develop independent electricity supplies, the Nigerian state of Lagos has invited bidders to express interest in building a series of gas-fuelled power plants totaling 4GW of…

Two tenders have been announced for Rail Baltica in Estonia, worth a maximum of €932m. One involves the construction of superstructure for the Ülemiste–Pärnu section of track and substructure for…

The Danish Energy Agency has launched tenders worth $4.2bn to build a carbon capture and storage network.   The tenders cover the capture, transportation and geological storage of fossil, biogenic…

The Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) has issued a request for proposals for design-and-build teams to reconstruct the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which collapsed on 26 March after being hit by…