The Civil Engineering and Development Department (CEDD) today (June 21) invited tenders for the contract for Kwu Tung North and Fanling North New Development Areas, Phase 1: Development of Long Valley Nature Park (Contract No. ND/2019/03).
      
     The works are scheduled to commence in October 2019 and will take about 36 months to complete. The works mainly comprise:
 
* development of a nature park at Long Valley of about 37 hectares and ecological mitigation and enhancement works for the nature park;
* related infrastructure works including roads, drainage, sewerage, waterworks, slopeworks and landscaping works;
* associated park facilities including lodging and storage units;
* translocation works and ecological monitoring of the rose bitterling, an uncommon fish, in the Ng Tung River;
* reprovisioning of two egretry sites in Fanling North New Development Area and enhancement works for an existing egretry site in Kwu Tung North New Development Area; and
* implementation of environmental mitigation measures and an environmental monitoring and audit programme.
 
     The CEDD has appointed AECOM Asia Company Limited as the consultant to design and supervise the works. Interested contractors can obtain the tender forms and further particulars from the company at 8/F, Grand Central Plaza, Tower 2, 138 Sha Tin Rural Committee Road, Sha Tin.
      
     The invitation to tender was gazetted today. The closing time for the tender is noon on August 16, 2019. 
      
     Details of the tender notice are available at the CEDD's website (www.cedd.gov.hk/eng/tender/contract/tender/index.html). For enquiries, please call AECOM Asia Company Limited at 3922 9000 during office hours.

     The Civil Engineering and Development Department (CEDD) today (June 21) invited tenders for the contract for Kwu Tung North New Development Area, Phase 1: Site Formation and Infrastructure Works (Contract No. ND/2019/01).
      
     The works are scheduled to commence in November 2019 and will take about 73 months to complete. The works mainly comprise:
 

• site formation of land under the First Phase of Kwu Tung North New Development Area (including soil treatment works);
• construction of engineering infrastructure including drainage works, sewerage works (including temporary sewage treatment facilities), waterworks (including a fresh water service reservoir and a flushing water service reservoir), roadworks (including carriageway, footpaths, cycle tracks, a subway and junction improvement), pipeworks for a district cooling system, slope works and landscaping works; and
• construction of associated environmental mitigation works including noise barriers/noise enclosures and low-noise road surfacing.

     The CEDD has appointed AECOM Asia Company Limited as the consultant to design and supervise the works. Interested contractors can obtain the tender forms and other particulars from the company at 8/F, Grand Central Plaza, Tower 2, 138 Sha Tin Rural Committee Road, Sha Tin.
      
     The invitation to tender was gazetted today. The closing time for the tender is noon on August 16, 2019. 
      
     Details of the tender notice are available at the CEDD's website (www.cedd.gov.hk/eng/tender/contract/tender/index.html). For enquiries, please call AECOM Asia Company Limited at 3922 9000 during office hours.

     â€‹The Civil Engineering and Development Department (CEDD) today (June 21) invited tenders for the contract for Site Formation and Infrastructure Works for Police Facilities in Kong Nga Po (Contract No. ND/2018/01).
      
     The works are scheduled to commence in November 2019 and will take about 38 months to complete. The works mainly comprise:
      
* site formation of about 19 hectares of land at Kong Nga Po;
* upgrading of the existing Kong Nga Po Road of about 1.7 kilometres long to a 7.3-metre-wide single two-lane carriageway and construction of a new vehicular bridge of about 100m long; and
* associated infrastructure works, including road works, waterworks, drainage and sewerage works, geotechnical works, landscaping works, environmental mitigation measures and other ancillary works.
      
     The CEDD has appointed AECOM Asia Company Limited as the consultant to design and supervise the works. Interested contractors may obtain the forms of tender and further particulars from the company at 8/F, Grand Central Plaza, Tower 2, 138 Sha Tin Rural Committee Road, Sha Tin.
      
     The invitation to tender was gazetted today. The closing time for the tender is noon on August 16, 2019. 
      
     Details of the tender notice are available at the CEDD's website (www.cedd.gov.hk/eng/tender/contract/tender/index.html). For enquiries, please call AECOM Asia Company Limited at 3922 9000 during office hours.

The following is issued on behalf of the Legislative Council Secretariat:
 
     The special meeting of the Legislative Council (LegCo) Panel on Welfare Services originally to be held at 9.30am tomorrow (June 22) will be rescheduled to a later date. 

     The effective exchange rate index for the Hong Kong dollar on Friday, June 21, 2019 is 104.9(same as yesterday's index).