Top Sri Lankan consultancy with wide overseas experience eyes local contracts
Milcris, a Sri Lankan-led company dealing with construction management consultancies with wide contracts overseas, is now setting its sights on major consultancies in Sri Lanka.
The company provides services including project management, cost consultancy and quantity surveying in major consultancy services abroad, particularly Oman and other Middle East countries.
Its CEO Millan De Silva told the Business Times on the sidelines of the briefing to explain its role in Sri Lanka, that in other countries they compete with international consultancy giants and in Oman they have more than a 70 per cent market share in consultancy.
He said that it is a myth that Sri Lankan firms cannot get international tenders for consultancy on large complex projects, like airports, ports and multiple flyovers. The projects on which they do consultancy services are worth US$8 billion and its annual turnover is in excess of $6 million for providing these consultancy services.
At the media briefing Mr. De Silva told reporters that they have provided consultancy services in the development of the Muscat International and Salalah Airport project in Oman. Milcris has provided its services in projects such as new campus for Dhofar University in Salalah, Zharat Al Khareef the mixed use commercial and residential township in Salalah, Supreme Court Complex in Al Chubra, a 5-star hotel in Saraya Bandar Al Jissa and a number of such mega projects. They are working on more than 40 projects at present.
He said that they would like to be where the growth is, in the rapidly moving world of technological enhancements where the construction industry is quick to take advantage of such changes. Milcris strives, Mr De Silva said, to enable projects to be completed within budget and on time without compromising quality.
Milcris has been in business for the last seven years and more than 70 per cent of its staff in the Middle East is Sri Lankans. They would be expanding their services in Sri Lanka and already they have won the tender to provide consultancy services for the ICBT Campus construction project in Malabe in a project valued at Rs 600 million.
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