August 27 (SeeNews) - Serbia's infrastructure ministry has received a single binding bid in its tender for construction of the Morava Corridor motorway that will link European transport Corridors X and XI on the country's territory, it said on Tuesday.
The sole bid was placed by a consortium of US civil engineering group Bechtel and Turkish construction and engineering company Enka, the infrastructure ministry said in a statement.
After verifying that the tender criteria are met, a working group chaired by infrastructure minister Zorana Mihajlovic will prepare a report to the government, which will decide on the selection of a strategic partner for the construction of the Morava Corridor, the ministry said.
The infrastructure ministry invited offers for the construction of the Morava Corridor on August 5. The deadline for submitting bids in the tender expired on August 26.
Serbia plans to invest 800 million euro ($889 million) in the construction of the motorway, Mihajlovic said in May.
The 112 km-long motorway will feature four lanes 15 metres in width each, twoemergency lanes 5 metres in width each, 84 bridges and 29 level crossings.
Corridor X will connect Salzburg in Austria to the Greek port of Thessaloniki, passing through Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Macedonia. Corridor XI is a ferry/motorway corridor linking Italy's Bari to Romania's Bucharest via Montenegro's Bar port and Serbia's Belgrade.
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