January 20 (SeeNews) - The awarding of a contract for the construction of a section of Bulgaria's Hemus motorway to a tie-up led by local company Hydrostroy has drawn complaints from five rejected competitors, the country's competition authority announced.
Last week, the government's Road Infrastructure Agency (RIA) awarded the 54.9 million levs ($29.56 million/28 million euro) contract for the construction of a 9.3 km section of Hemus motorway to the Hydrostroy-led consortium following a tender in which 10 bids were submitted. Construction works on the motorway section - from the town of Yablanitsa 90 km northeast of Sofia to Boaza road intersection farther east - should be completed within 910 days.
Three tie-ups - Stroiteli Hemus, Actor-Aer, AM Hemus 1-2016 - and the companies PST Group and Trace Group Hold have all filed complaints on Thursday, according to announcements posted on the website of the Commission for Protection of Competition announced on its website.
The Yablanitsa-Boaza section is the first out of four planned sections for the extension of Hemus, which will link the capital Sofia to the Black Sea city of Varna some 420 km to the east. About 250 km of Hemus motorway remain to be built.