People & Institutions
Al-Noor Al-Thaqib Contracting Company (written Al-Noor Al-Thaqib General Contracting Company Limited in other sources)
Investment licence of the National Investment Commission, for the project: Collection service for Zayouna districts 716 and 718.
شركة النور الثاقب للمقاولات
Legal status
Not charged as of the date of writing
Not charged as of the date of writing (status as of 5 October 2026). No court ruling, arrest warrant, sanctions listing or statement naming this company as accused was found. An official statement of 13 January 2019 on the Al-Ghadeer electricity contract does not name the company, so the status is not raised.
The licence as listed
The list of licensed projects of the National Investment Commission.
- Licensing body
- National Investment Commission
- Licence number
- 258/2019
- Date of grant
- 23 January 2019
- Sector
- Energy
- Project
- Collection service for Zayouna districts 716 and 718خدمة الجباية محلات زيونه 716و718
- Licensee
- شركة النور الثاقب للمقاولات (Iraqi)
- Province
- Baghdad
- Location
- بغداد
- Stated cost
- $3.5 millionThe list gives the cost in dinars. It is converted here at 1,190 dinars to the dollar.
- State of the project
- Completed (100% complete)
Who is behind the licensee
company
The owners and managers were not identified in the sources that were read.
What official and press reports say
- Official findings
- The Federal Integrity Commission said on 13 January 2019, in a statement carried by Alsumaria, that the award of the rehabilitation and collection contract for Al-Ghadeer electricity had no legal basis and that the contract was void automatically. It said the unnamed contractor had received its investment licence from the date of signing before the smart metering system was installed, that more than a year and a half had passed since signing without actual implementation, that the contract did not state the number of smart meters to be counted by the Rasafa directorate (the report gives their value as 2,388,084,000 followed by the word billion, an apparent typing error), and that the contractor had not provided the real-estate mortgage required by the mortgage contract. The statement does not name the contractor. The facts that point the same way are the NIC licence 210/2018 for Al-Ghadeer service and collection in this company's name and the 2022 ministry statement placing the company in mahallas 704 and 706 of the same area. No court case, audit report, licence withdrawal or sanctions listing naming the company was found. Context only: on 21 May 2019 the Federal Integrity Commission asked for a review of the performance of all service and collection companies contracted with the Ministry of Electricity, according to Alsumaria. The statement names no company, so it is not a finding about this licensee.
- What became of the project
- Licence 258/2019 of 23/1/2019: collection service for Zayouna mahallas 716 and 718, Baghdad, stated cost IQD 4,165,290,000 (about USD 3.50 million at the register's rate of 1,190 dinars to the dollar, our arithmetic). Completion recorded as 1. No source opened describes performance in mahallas 716 and 718. On the New Baghdad underground-cable project of November 2022, 964 reported residents' complaints about excavation damage, and said some residents feared a repeat of the Zayouna experience, which it described as not free of faults and cuts.
- Other contracts with the state
- The NIC list records four licences for this company in the energy sector, all for electricity service and collection in Baghdad. Licence 106/2016 of 27/10/2016: service and collection contract for mahallas 710, 712 and 714 in Zayouna (IQD 8,000,000,000). Licence 210/2018 of 27/6/2018: service and collection for the Al-Ghadeer mahallas 702, 704 and 706 (IQD 1,102,799,880). Licence 212/2018: service and collection for Palestine Street (IQD 1,712,122,140). Licence 258/2019 (this record). Contract with the Ministry of Electricity: the web copy on the Basra governorate site (page date 8 March 2019, which looks like an archive republication because the licence is dated October 2016) reports the ministry spokesman Musab al-Mudarris announcing that the Rasafa Electricity Distribution Directorate signed an investment contract with the company, called the first in Iraq in the distribution sector, covering maintenance, smart meters and collection of fees in mahallas 710, 712 and 714 of Zayouna, for five years, renewable. 964 reported on 29 November 2022 that, according to ministry spokesman Ahmed al-Abadi, the project to replace overhead lines with underground cables in mahallas 704 and 706 of New Baghdad had been referred to the company. The University of Baghdad (College of Administration and Economics, 3 April 2017) names the company and the Rasafa directorate as the two parties of the Zayouna investment project.
Sources
- توقيع أول عقد استثماري في قطاع التوزيع وجباية الأجور, Basra Governorate Office (web copy of a news item, page date 8 March 2019), 8 March 2019 Tier D
ابرام مديرية توزيع كهرباء الرصافة عقدا استثماريا يعد «الاول» في العراق في قطاع التوزيع مع شركة النور الثاقب الذي يتضمن تقديم خدمات الصيانة والجباية
- توقيع أول عقد استثماري في قطاع التوزيع وجباية الأجور, Basra Governorate Office (web copy of a news item, page date 8 March 2019), 8 March 2019 Tier D
المحلات التي سيتم تطبيق هذه التجربة فيها هي 710 و 712 و714 في منطقة زيونة
- مناقشة بحث الدبلوم العالي في تخصص التخطيط الاستراتيجي للطالب ( مصطفى ثائر ثابت ), University of Baghdad, College of Administration and Economics, 3 April 2017 Tier D
يتوزع مجتمع وعينة البحث بين موقعين وهما المديرية العامة لتوزيع كهرباء الرصافة (القطاع العام) و"شركة النور الثاقب للمقاولات العامة المحدودة" (القطاع الخاص) وهما طرفي مشروع زيونة الاستثماري.
- الحكومة تمنح بغداد الجديدة كهرباءً "تحت الأرض" وتلغي الأعمدة نهائيا (صور), 964 Media, 29 November 2022 Tier D
المشروع "أحيل إلى شركة النور الثاقب بهدف تطوير الشبكة الهوائية وتحويلها إلى اندر داون الارضي"
- الحكومة تمنح بغداد الجديدة كهرباءً "تحت الأرض" وتلغي الأعمدة نهائيا (صور), 964 Media, 29 November 2022 Tier D
فيما عبر آخرون عن خشيتهم من تكرار تجربة منطقة زيونة مع مثل هذا المشروع، الذي لم يخل من الاعطال والقطوعات مع انعدام البديل المعروف في العراق (بمولدات السحب).
- النزاهة: عقد تأهيل وجباية كهرباء الغدير لا أساس قانوني له, Alsumaria News (statement of the Federal Integrity Commission), 13 January 2019 Tier D
اعلنت هيئة النزاهة، الاحد، ان احالة عقد تأهيل وجباية كهرباء الغدير لا أساس قانوني له، مؤكدة ان العقد يعد لاغيا بضورة تلقائية.
- النزاهة: عقد تأهيل وجباية كهرباء الغدير لا أساس قانوني له, Alsumaria News (statement of the Federal Integrity Commission), 13 January 2019 Tier D
منح الشركة إجازة الاستثمار ابتداءً من تاريخ توقيع العقد تم قبل نصب وتجهيز منظومة المقاييس الذكية ودخول عقد التأهيل والجباية والصيانة حيز التنفيذ والمباشرة الفعلية بذلك
- النزاهة تطالـب بإعـادة النظـر في أداء شـركات الخـدمة والجبايـة التابعة للكهرباء, Alsumaria News, 21 May 2019 Tier D
دعت هيأة النزاهة، الثلاثاء، إلى إعادة النظر في أداء شركات الخدمة والجباية المُتعاقدة مع وزارة الكهرباء كافة، مُبيِّنةً ضرورة معالجة العيوب التي ظهرت في العقود المُبرمة مع هذه الشركات.