The Egyptian Electricity Holding Company (EEHC) is set to receive today bids in its open tender for the operation and maintenance of the three Siemens combined-cycle power plants, Al Borsa reports. 10 companies, including Siemens, an Orascom-ADERA Energy consortium, an Elsewedy-EDF consortium, Germany’s STEAG GmbH, Hassan Allam, a Triangle-GD France consortium, Korea’s Doosan, and Japan’s Mitsubishi are taking part in the tender, Electricity Ministry sources say. The EEHC had issued the tender in November with plans to come to a final agreement with the winning company or consortium by 2017’s end. Picking a company to manage the three plants is an important step prior to the establishing three state-owned companies which will list as part of the state IPO program.