August 16 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria's road agency said on Tuesday it has received 17 bids for the construction of Zheleznitsa tunnel, on Struma motorway, which has an indicative value of 250 million levs ($141.6 million/128 million euro).
The tender envisages the construction of a 2 km tunnel, which will be Bulgaria's longest, as well as two bridges and adjacent roads with a total length of 2.5 km, the road agency said in a press release.
The works should be completed in 1,400 days.
The project will be implemented under the EU Operational Programme Transport and transport infrastructure 2014-2020.
In February, Bulgaria halted the tender for the construction of the tunnel acting on a complaint by local S&G Group concerning the tender documentation. In March, Bulgaria's competition regulator dismissed the complaint as unjustified.
The Struma motorway, with a total length of 173.28 km, is part of pan-European transport Corridor IV, linking Bulgaria's capital Sofia with the Greek border at checkpoint Kulata. Its construction is divided into four sections, of which three are completed: Dolna Dikanya – Dupnitsa, Dupnitsa – Blagoevgrad, and Sandanski-Kulata, while Blagoevgrad-Sandanski, which includes the Zheleznitsa tunnel, remains to be built.
(1 euro=1.95583 levs)