The network contains more than 250 bridges and storm and sanitary sewer networks of about 5,000 km each. MPW follows a general strategy in which maintenance work is carried out through contracts awarded to the lowest bidders. The maintenance contracts cover the country's five governorates. Roads and sewers are maintained under separate contracts. Maintenance programs are executed by issuing work orders under each contract.
Every work order covers a specific location and is executed during a predetermined time period.
Work items covered under each work order are estimated on the basis of a detailed site investigation carried out by Maintenance Administration staff. Payments are made to contractors based on the work accomplished. In order to keep track of the progress of the project, the accomplishments of the consultant and to ensure that MPW personnel will be fully capable of operating the acquired system at the end of the two year effort, a Maintenance Administration project team was formed. In-house technical committees and work groups have been formed to coordinate with the consultant, ITX Technologies, and to follow up on their work. Project technical advisors with extensive experience with the operations and policies of the Maintenance Administration were selected to act as coordinators between the in-house work groups and the consultant.