SOFIA (Bulgaria), November 18 (SeeNews) – Bulgaria has received 10 bids in a tender for the construction of a 9.3 km Hemus motorway section with an estimated value of 80 million levs ($43.3 million/40.9 million euro), the country's road infrastructure agency (RIA) said on Friday.
Three of the bids were submitted by foreign companies – Spain’s Assignia Infraestructuras, Greece’s Aktor and Austria’s Strabag, with all three of them bidding in tie-ups with Bulgarian companies, RIA said in a press release.
The lowest price, 54.6 million levs, was offered by a tie-up comprising Assignia Infraestructuras and two Bulgarian companies – Megainvest-hold and Haskovo-based AB.
A tie-up of three Bulgarian companies - Hydrostroy, Vodstroy and Patstroy offered the second lowest price of 55 million levs.
The highest offer of 78.9 million levs was submitted by a tie-up between Greece's Aktor and Bulgaria's Atomenergoremont.
The 9.3 km section of Hemus motorway, to begin near the town of Yablanica 90 km northeast of Sofia, should be built within 910 days. It is the first out of four planned sections for the extension of Hemus, which will link Sofia and the Black Sea city of Varna.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)