Govt invites bids for 4-lane Versailles to Parika Highway

The Government, through the Ministry of Housing and Water (MOHW) and the Central Housing & Planning Authority (CH&PA), has announced the invitation for bids for the construction of a four-lane highway from Versailles, West Bank Demerara (WBD), to Parika, East Bank Essequibo (EBE), Region Three. According to an MOHW news report, the Government, represented by the CH&PA, Lot 41 Brickdam and United Nations Place, Stabroek, Georgetown, Region Four, invites sealed bids from eligible and qualified bidders for the construction of a four-lane highway from Versailles, WBD, to Parika, EBE, Region Three – Lots 1 to 17.
Bidding will be conducted through the National Competitive Bidding (NCB) process, specified in the Procurement Act 2003, and is open to all eligible bidders. Bids must be delivered to the Chairman, National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB), Ministry of Finance (Northeastern Building), Main and Urquhart Street, Kingston, Georgetown, on or before 09:00h on Monday, December 22, 2025.
Interested eligible bidders may obtain further information from the Ministry of Housing and Water, CH&PA, Projects Department (227-8886 / 226-1809) and inspect the bidding documents at the address mentioned above, from 09:00h to 15:30h.
It was back in November 2020 that President Irfaan Ali had said that Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara) would witness unprecedented transformation with the construction of a four-lane highway from the new Demerara Harbour Bridge (then-proposed) location to Parika.
‘During the campaign, we spoke about the development of new growth poles. The building of new highways and transformative projects. Region Three is one of those regions where we will have a lot of transformation,” he had recalled, adding that the transformation is about creating new infrastructure, converting low-value land or marginal land into high-value assets and having a development mix that will expand agriculture, opening up tourism opportunities, housing development, industrial development and commercial development.