{"id":181558,"date":"2024-09-30T05:07:22","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T03:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-cost-controversy-chinese-firms-reduce-namwater-tender-price-by-n350-million\/"},"modified":"2024-09-30T05:07:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T03:07:22","slug":"namibia-cost-controversy-chinese-firms-reduce-namwater-tender-price-by-n350-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-cost-controversy-chinese-firms-reduce-namwater-tender-price-by-n350-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Cost Controversy &#8211; Chinese Firms Reduce Namwater Tender Price By N$350 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\"><em>Three Chinese companies appears to have inflated their prices for the construction of a NamWater water purification facility at Oshakati.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Jiangxi Construction Engineering Group initially submitted a bid of around N$1,1 billion last year, but made a U-turn this week, tendering for N$748 million on the same project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">This means the new bid is reduced by N$352 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Other entities who reduced their bids are China Gezhouba Group and China Jiangxi International, which asked for N$1,1 billion last&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409230526.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Chinese companies appears to have inflated their prices for the construction of a NamWater water purification facility at Oshakati. Jiangxi Construction Engineering Group initially submitted a bid of around N$1,1 billion last year, but made a U-turn this week, tendering for N$748 million on the same project. This means the new bid is reduced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":181559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,435,9868,6629,7082,5118,16350,4706,724,24083,257,8689,8391,254,8121],"class_list":["post-181558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chinese","tag-controversy","tag-cost","tag-firms","tag-million","tag-n350","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namwater","tag-news","tag-price","tag-reduce","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tender"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}