Serba Dinamik clinches RM1.47b ICT project in Abu Dhabi

PETALING JAYA: Serba Dinamik Holdings Bhd, through its wholly owned subsidiary Serba Dinamik International Ltd, has received and accepted a letter of award from Future Digital Data Systems LLC (FDDS) to undertake, among others, the engineering, procurement, construction and completion of a data centre and related facilities, infrastructure, and landscaping, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, with a total contract price of US$350 million (RM1.47 billion).

The project, work on which is expected to start on Sept 1, 2020, will be built at Mussafah, Abu Dhabi, in phases and is a master plan for a total information technology (IT) data centre with a capacity of 20MW. This data centre can host mission critical systems and provide colocation services, business continuity and managed services facilities.

The project forms part of FDDS’s initiatives to develop a series of data centres across the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region supporting its activities in Abu Dhabi and the rest of the Gulf Cooperation Council by addressing the growing market for cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, internet of things and big data analytics services.

Serba Dinamik Holdings group managing director and group CEO Datuk Dr Mohd Karim Abdullah said securing this project demonstrates the group’s ability to continue winning tenders for projects despite the economic uncertainties due to Covid-19.

“We are confident that the group will hit another peak for the financial year ended 2020 as this contract will not only improve our top line but also contribute significantly to the IT segment. This project also strengthens our brand throughout the Mena region.

“While the project further demonstrates our group’s diversification from the oil and gas industry, it also shows the vast potential in ICT for the corporate and consumer markets as businesses and people adopt new working practices or processes that need the technologies surrounding Industrial Revolution 4.0. We see this adoption accelerating from the pandemic,” he said in a statement.