Recently, Hangzhou Jianghe Mechanical and Electrical Equipment Engineering Co., Ltd. received a transaction notice from Sinohydro Corporation Engineering Bureau 5 Co., Ltd., and successfully won the bid for the procurement project of winch hoist and ancillary equipment for the Gribo Popoli hydropower station project. The equipment includes one set overflow dam one-way gantry crane, one set inlet two-way trash rake gantry crane and ancillary equipment, and three sets 2×1250kN tailwater fixed winch hoist and ancillary equipment.
The Gribo Popoli hydropower station is located on the Sassandra River in southwestern C ô te d'Ivoire, with the Soubre hydropower station upstream and the Boulaubre hydropower station downstream. The dam site of the power station is about 230km away from the political capital Yamoussoukro and about 360km away from the economic capital Abidjan. The Gribo Popoli hydropower station adopts a riverbed development method, with a normal water level of 106 meters, a storage capacity of 78 million cubic meters, and a total installed capacity of 112.89 MW. The hub buildings are mainly composed of water retaining structures, spillways, and riverbed style factory buildings. After completion, the project will make significant contributions to the power supply and industrial development of Cote d'Ivoire.
This project procurement adopts the form of open bidding. After obtaining project information, the company leadership attaches great importance to it and promptly organizes technical and business personnel to digest and absorb the bidding documents. Based on the requirements of the bidding documents and our company's experience in designing and serving numerous foreign projects, we carefully optimize the design scheme. In this bidding process, a total of seven companies participated, and the company's quotation ranked second at the bid opening, resulting in a relatively unfavorable situation. The company's leaders and project team did not give up easily. During the evaluation process, they actively communicated with the owner, presented the design plan, and demonstrated the company's strongest technical strength. In the end, they received unanimous recognition from all parties of Sinohydro Corporation Engineering Bureau 5 Co., Ltd., considering our company's excellent technical solution, reliable quality management system, and rich foreign service experience. They decided to submit our company as one of the bidding candidate manufacturers to the foreign owner, the Ministry of Mines, Petroleum and Energy of Cote d'Ivoire, and the supervision company hired by the foreign party for review and determination. After being selected as a candidate bidder, our company immediately organized business and technical personnel to prepare French technical materials. The foreign supervision company also highly recognized our company's technical strength and performance ability after review, and determined that our company would provide the mechanical and electrical equipment and services for this bidding.
The winning bid of this project fully reflects the spirit of unity, cooperation, and perseverance of our company, as well as the full recognition of our technical level, product quality, and after-sales service quality by domestic and foreign owners; This project is also the first cooperation between our company and Sinohydro Corporation Engineering Bureau 5 Co., Ltd., which has brought positive impact to further explore the market of Sinohydro Corporation Engineering Bureau 5 Co., Ltd., and laid a good foundation for participating in subsequent cascade power stations. At the same time, it is also a sign of the gradual recovery of the company's foreign business in the post epidemic era.