The Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC), which delivers the infrastructure for the 2022 Fifa World Cup in Qatar, has awarded an insurance contract for capital expenditure works related to the construction of stadiums to the National Insurance Consortium (NIC). Delegates from Qatar Islamic Insurance Company (QIIC), the lead organisation on this contract, and the other members of the NIC, including Qatar Insurance Company, Qatar General Insurance & Reinsurance Company, Al Khaleej Takaful Group, Doha Insurance Company and Al Koot Insurance & Reinsurance Company, attended the official ceremony at Al Bidda Tower, SC's headquarters in Doha, where the policy was formally handed over to the SC's secretary general Hassan al-Thawadi by Sheikh Abdullah bin Thani al-Thani, QIIC chairman. The procurement of the capital expenditure insurance contract was made under an Owner Controlled Insurance Programme (OCIP) and provides ‘Construction All Risk' and ‘Third Party Liability' coverage for seven of the eight currently planned stadiums for the 2022 World Cup, with the exception of the Khalifa International Stadium as the venue's extensive refurbishment project is expected to be completed by second quarter, 2017.