The consultant is to provide technical assistance, design review, construction drawing review services as well as assistance during start-up and commissioning. The services are to be provided over the 44-month engineering and construction phase.
MWH said the services contract was valued at approximately US$3.8M over four years.
Construction of the project on the upper Nile river commenced almost a year ago, and it is scheduled to be commissioned in 2011. The project budget is approximately US$682M, said MWH.
Recently, the contract to supply five Kaplan turbines, generators and hydromechanical equipment for the plant was awarded to Alstom Projects India (API) by the turnkey contractor on the scheme, Italian firm Salini.
The project is being developed Bujagali Energy Ltd (BEL), which is a JV between Kenya-based Industrial Promotion Services (IPS) and US-based Sithe Global Power.
Under development since the 1990s, the project saw the developer change and then eventually, last year, it won support from the World Bank which in turn unleashed a wave of funding from other banks and agencies.
