October 2 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria's Road Infrastructure Agency (RIA) said it has cancelled the tender for construction of Zheleznitsa tunnel on Struma motorway, a project with an indicative value of 250 million levs ($136.2 million/128 million euro).
The tender was cancelled due to changes in technical criteria for the selection of offers, the government agency said in a statement on Friday.
The tender was relaunched in September after the initial procedure was cancelled in April. The National Company Strategic Infrastructure Projects had misinformed the candidates that they could place offers higher than the indicative value of the project, Pirin Penchev, the head of RIA, said at the time. Another reason for the cancellation was the missing technical offer of one of the participants in the tender.
The Struma motorway is part of pan-European transport Corridor IV, linking Bulgaria's capital Sofia to Kulata checkpoint on the border with Greece. Its construction has been divided into four sections, of which three have already been completed.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)