June 13 (SeeNews) - Bosnian state-owned road company Autoceste FBiH said on Monday it selected a consortium made of local engineering consultants IGH and Integra and Croatia's civil engineering company Institut IGH to draw a preliminary and main design of a section of the Adriatic–Ionian motorway.
The consortium offered the lowest price of 6.09 million marka ($3.26 million/3.1 million euro), tax excluded, in the tender which attracted two other bids, Autoceste FBiH said in a notice.
The design of the expressway should be completed in 18 months.
The section is planned to connect Stolac to Pocitelj interregional interchange.
The Adriatic-Ionian motorway, also known as the Blue Corridor, is expected to stretch along the entire eastern coast of the Adriatic and Ionian seas from Italy to Greece through Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Albania.
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