Winning $ 50M Road Contract in The Gambia… PAVI FORT Goes International

By Amin Kef Sesay

Renowned road Construction Company, Pavi Fort-Al Associates (SL) Ltd Road Construction Company, registered in Sierra Leone, are pleased to announce that the company is one of two sub-regional road construction companies awarded a USD50 million urban 50km roads contract in The Gambia.

The project which is funded by Saudi Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is to be completed and delivered in fourteen months. With the Government of The Gambia demanding fast track delivery, civil works for the roads which will have street lights, drainages and footpaths started immediately.

Pavi Fort and CSE, the two companies that won the contract promised to deliver on time with high quality guaranteed. The urban roads will reduce traffic volume and cut travel time by half.

The Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of Pavi Fort-Al Associates (SL) Ltd Construction Company, Alimu Sanu Barrie, in an exclusive interview with this medium disclosed that in line with The Gambian Government’s directive, his company partnered with a local company, Hub, to successfully bid for the contract which was signed on the 21st September, 2021. On the company’s vision of reconstructing West Africa, he disclosed that establishing a flourishing operation of the company in the ECOWAS sub-region is effectively in progress, with business activities currently going on in Sierra Leone, The Gambia and Guinea.

The company, he added, is also fully registered in Liberia and Ghana and will continue to explore investment opportunities in the region

Sourcing for alternative avenues for basalt for The Gambian market began in July 2021. Pavi Fort-Al Associates (SL) Ltd shipped the first consignment of basalt to The Gambia which is good news for builders, contractors, etc.

Pavi Fort’s Chairman/CEO, Alimu Sanu Barrie, has over twenty-five years of entrepreneurial experience in the execution of large-scale development projects.

He is an acclaimed visionary in investment, particularly in the fields of heavy-duty machinery, logistics management, estate development, quarrying, building and road construction.

The company is an offshoot of long term collaboration between the Sierra Leonean entrepreneur and the Spanish counterpart- GIMENO CON-STRUCCION & PAVI-FORT SL (SPAIN) and the two continue to maintain a strong technical partnership with the European outfit.

The company’s civil engineers, civil works technician and heavy duty mechanics receive training and frequent upgrade from the Spanish team, while the Memorandum of Understanding between the two companies provides for a technical advisory team to be attached to all operations everywhere in Africa.

PAVI FORT also offers design build, preconstruction, construction management and contracting services where it has established a strong reputation for delivering quality construction projects in record time.

The company he added is also fully registered in Liberia and Ghana and

Pavi Fort which started its road construction works in Sierra Leone, with excellent performance has now gone international by winning such a big contract in The Gambia. This is indeed an impressive achievement not only for the company but Sierra Leone as well.

The Chairman/CEO of Pavi Fort, Alimu Sanu Barrie, in an exclusive interview with this medium said he is highly optimistic that the winning of this contract will open a floodgate for the company to be considered internationally for good road construction works. He furthered that there are Sierra Leoneans who are benefitting through employment adding that through his company the country stands to gain immensely from the foreign currency that it brings.