Romanian Bucharest-Ploiesti Highway To Have Only Two Lanes

If the auction were not won by the company that is now building the two lanes of the highway, the new constructor would not be able to reach the part of highway it was supposed to widen, Berceanu said, adding that not all the technical and legal aspects were taken into account.

Berceanu said he asked for the opinion of national public procurement regulator ANRMAP regarding the auction.

According to Berceanu, the Romanian national road authority has two contradictory ways of seeing things.

“Some say the public procurement law stipulates an auction can include direct attribution, but from a technical point of view this is not possible, while others say in the context in which people fight to discredit each other, an investigating commission will immediately be established,” Berceanu added.

Berceanu said that the decision made by the former transports minister Ludovic Orban to widen to three lanes the first sector of the highway had no justification.

In July, the road authority said seven companies and consortiums from Romania, Spain and Portugal bid to widen to three lanes of the route Moara Vlasiei-Ploiesti, the value of the work being estimated to RON196.85 million without VAT (EUR1=RON4.2240).

The bidders are Euroconstruct Trading 98/PA&CO International/Via Design (Romania), MonteAdriano Engenharia E Construcao (Portugal), Lena Engenharia E Construcoes (Portugal), Marcor Ebro/Proyectos Tecnicos Y Obras Civiles/Copisa Constructora Pirenaica (Spain), Spedition UMB, Colas Romania and Sociedate de Construcoes Soares da Costa (Portugal).

The road segment is located on the Bucharest-Ploiesti highway, between kilometers 19+500 and 45+000.

CNADNR already assigned a EUR249.74 million contract to consortium Spedition UMB/Pa&Co Internaţional/Euroconstruct ’98/Com-Axa, which builds a two-lane segment on the mentioned distance.