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Romanian Transp Min Signs EUR693M Contracts For Corridor IV Highways

Romanian Transport Minister Anca Boagiu on Friday signed five contracts, worth a total EUR692.68 million (including VAT), for the design and construction of highway sections on Pan-European Corridor IV, the first of nine project packages that have been auctioned off.
Romanian Transp Min Signs EUR693M Contracts For Corridor IV Highways
Florin BadescuRadu Bostan
20 mai 2011, 16:11, English

The Romanian-Italian consortium Spedition UMB-Tehnostrade-Carena SpA Impresa di Costruzioni will design and build the first segment of the Timisoara-Lugoj highway sector, for EUR63.62 million. The tender which awarded the contract has been challenged by several associations of Romanian and foreign companies: Confort SA Timisoara-Monteadriano, Tehnologica Radion-Gabriel Couto-Amandio Carvalho-Lena-Rosas-Arcadis and Construcciones Y Promociones Balzola-Robert Alcisa-Puentes.

The Romanian-Portuguese consortium Romstrade-Monteadriano Engenharia e Construcao-Donep Construct has been awarded the contract for the first segment of the Nadlac-Arad sector, worth EUR115.8 million. The second segment will be designed and built by German company Alpine Bau, for EUR124.45 million.

The consortium Tirrena Scavi-Societa Italiana per Condotte d’Acqua-Cossi Construzioni has been awarded the contract for the first segment of the Lugoj-Deva sector, worth EUR205.9 million.

Lastly, Italian firm Impregilo will design and build the third segment of the Orastie-Sibiu sector, for EUR182.91 million.

The two segments of the Nadlac-Arad sector and segment 3 of the Orastie-Sibiu sector have not been contested.

The auctioned highway sectors have a total length of 98 km and must be built by 2013.

The four packages that have been contested are for 85 km and worth a total EUR562 million.

Segment 2 of the Timisoara-Lugoj highway, awarded to Italian association Tirrena Scavi-Societa Italiana per Condotte d’Acqua-Cossi Construzioni, with a bid of 445.64 million lei (EUR108.45 million), was contested by Confort SA Timisoara-Monteadriano, Tehnologica Radion-Gabriel Couto-Amandio Carvalho-Lena-Rosas-Arcadis and Construcciones Y Promociones Balzola-Robert Alcisa-Puentes.

The first segment of the Orastie-Sibiu highway was awarded to Austrian company Strabag, for RON551.04 million, and contested by Tehnologica Radion-Gabriel Couto-Amandio Carvalho-Lena-Rosas-Arcadis.

The second segment, won by Romanian firm Straco Grup and Italian firm Corona Civil Engeneering for RON377.78 million, has been challenged by the association asocierea Max Boegl Romania-Geiger-Tancrad-Primacons.

The tender for the fourth segment of the Orastie-Sibiu highway, awarded to the Astaldi-Euroconstruct association, has been challenged by Romanian firm J&P-Avax.

(EUR1=RON4.1091)