February 7 (SeeNews) - Bosnian state-owned road construction companies Autoceste FBiH and Autoputevi RS are inviting pre-qualification bids in a tender for the construction of a section of European corridor Vc in the country, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said.
The tender envisages the construction of an 8-kilometre-long motorway section connecting the tunnel Putnikovo Brdo 2 and the Medakovo interchange, the EBRD said in a tender notice last week.
The road section is the second part of the Doboj bypass segment of Corridor Vc. Bosnia plans to use the proceeds of an EBRD loan extended for the construction of the Doboj bypass project to finance works on the Putnikovo Brdo 2-Medakovo interchange section.
The Doboj bypass road also includes the construction of a 5.6-kilometre-long section between bridge Rudanka and tunnel Putnikovo Brdo 2. The estimated cost of both sections is 210 million euro ($240.4 million), provided in full by the EBRD via loans, according to earlier notices by the EBRD.
Corridor Vc has a total length of 700 km and connects the port of Ploce in Croatia with Budapest in Hungary, stretching some 340 km across Bosnia.
Autoputevi RS is the motorway operator of the Serb Republic, whereas Autoceste FBiH is the motorway operator of the Federation. The Serb Republic and the Federation are the two entities that form Bosnia and Herzegovina.
($ = 0.8735 euro)