{"id":346,"date":"2026-11-10T09:59:39","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T09:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/10\/sri-lanka-awards-rs1-73bn-contract-to-build-kelaniya-university-complex\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T09:59:39","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T09:59:39","slug":"sri-lanka-awards-rs1-73bn-contract-to-build-kelaniya-university-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/10\/sri-lanka-awards-rs1-73bn-contract-to-build-kelaniya-university-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka awards Rs1.73bn contract to build Kelaniya University complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ECONOMYNEXT \u2014 Sri Lanka\u2019s Cabinet has approved awarding a 1.73 billion rupee contract to M\/s Sathuta Builders (Pvt) Ltd to construct a 10-storey building for the University of Kelaniya.<\/p>\n<p>The new building will house the university\u2019s Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, reviving a project that was earlier halted due to the country\u2019s economic crisis. <\/p>\n<p>The approved contract sum excludes Value Added Tax (VAT).<\/p>\n<p>The procurement began after the Cabinet granted approval on February 3, 2025, to resume the project through national competitive bidding, attracting a total of 10 bids.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing the evaluation of the bids, the contract is awarded to the lowest substantially responsive bidder based on recommendations from the procurement committees,\u201d minister Nalinda Jayatissa said. (Colombo\/Nov10\/2026)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ECONOMYNEXT \u2014 Sri Lanka\u2019s Cabinet has approved awarding a 1.73 billion rupee contract to M\/s Sathuta Builders (Pvt) Ltd to construct a 10-storey building for the University of Kelaniya. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sripuwath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}