Uganda Police housing Project

KAMPALA, UGANDA- The fifth bidder for Uganda’s Police housing project was recently disqualified from the list of official bidders due to failure to meet the set standards, East African Business Week understands.
EVG 3D consortium that was keen on the Police project was disqualified in their round one attempt because the documents they submitted did not meet the set standards.“We communicated to them showing them the areas they lacked that led to our objection of the interest,” explained Jim Mugunga the project officer.
The four consortiums that managed to progress to bidding stage are AHADI consortium, ALKRIGHT consortium, ACMIRS consortium and FANGDA (Africa) Developments consortium.The Uganda Police, in a bid to modernize the force want to carry out a public-private partnership for the development of serviced housing and accommodation project with an intention of delivering suitable and decent office and home accommodation solutions for the Uganda Police Force.
The Police Houses that will be transformed first are those in the Kampala Metropolitan area.

EVG3D with its main offices in the United States has other subsidiary companies worldwide. It failed to meet some of the requirements, leading to the rejection of their interest.

According to the company official website, www.evg.com, the company majors in equipment and machinery as adapted to customer specific requirements. They also provide expertise in the production of welded mesh and in processing reinforcing steel. The company also has a construction system that constitutes an innovative building method for both residential and industrial buildings.

EVG 3D also completes product equipments for panel manufacturing plants, provides engineering support required for planning and implementing construction projects with EVG 3D panels. The Police project aims at providing accommodation to over 7,200 police families, a modern police headquarter, a regional training academy, regional, divisional and ordinary police stations.

Mugunga had earlier last week explained that the PPP arrangement is a long-term relationship between the developers and the government. He noted the companies to qualify for the project, should have capacity to construct 730 houses using their own funds, stay in, maintain and manage these projects.
“Hopefully by the last quarter of the year, this housing unit project will take off. We shall start with the metropolitan divisions like Nsambya, Kira Road, Jinja Road, Naguru, Wandegeya and Kibuli,” said Mugunga.

The Uganda Police Housing Project Public Private Partnership is a procurement mechanism through which the public sector engages and exploits the private sector competencies to address the deplorable and dilapidated state of accommodation in which police officers work and live.

Police Housing construction begins

New houses to accommodate Police personnel will soon be built through a Public-Private partnership deal and work is expected to start next year.
Under the arrangement, the largely dilapidated police barracks will be phased out to pave way for the new structures that will also include the new police headquarters. Two years ago, government tendered the Project for the construction of the new police barracks.