World Bank blacklisted only one firm last year

Four Nordic consultancy firms vie for spots among the top 20 European companies, according to the annual overview for 2006 of Swedish Technique and Design, produced in cooperation with the consultanting engineers’ associations in Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Norway.

At the close of the year, the Danish consultancy NIRAS has won a huge contract with Danida to assist six Iraqi ministries to plan their reconstruction programmes. The security risk has pushed up the price of the contract to DKK 22 million for the first year alone. This may also explain why there was only one bidder, even though the contract was put out on open international tender.

In the fall of 2006, Nepal applied for Norwegian aid funding for the design phase of the Upper Tamakoshi hydropower project (309 megawatts) in Nepal. The contract was to be carried out by a joint venture between Norconsult and the German firm Lahmeyer International.