May 29 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria's transport ministry said on Monday it has received one bid in a tender for awarding a 27-year concession contract for the operation of an intermodal terminal in the country's second largest city of Plovdiv.
The sole bid has been submitted by local company Terminali, the transport ministry said in a statement.
Terminali should invest at least 4.7 million levs ($2.7 million/2.4 million euro) in the intermodal terminal for the 27-year period of the concession contract. It will also pay an annual fixed concession fee of 50,000 levs plus at least 10% of the terminal's revenues.
Terminali will also pay an one-time concession fee of 5,000 levs.
The construction of the intermodal terminal cost 13.94 million levs ($7.9 million/7.12 million euro) and took about two and a half years to complete, according to data published on the website of Trace Group Hold, the local company which had built the facility. The project was financed from EU funds and the Bulgarian government budget.
Plovdiv-registered Terminali is owned by PIMK Holding Group, which is majority owner of local transport and logistics company PIMK.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)