SOFIA (Bulgaria), December 7 (SeeNews) – Bulgarian state-owned company Metropoliten, the operator of the Sofia subway, said that nine companies and consortia have filed bids in a tender for the construction of a 2.62-kilometre section of the capital’s underground railway network.
The section is divided into two lots as the bidders for the first one are the Bulgarian subsidiary of Turkish company Dogus Insaat Ve Ticaret, local company Stroyndzhekt, and consortium Metro Build Mladost, Metropoliten said in a statement on its website on Thursday.
Bid for the second lot have been filed by local company Adval, and consortia Porr Business Park, Metro Vitosha 2012, Metro Business Park, Geometro B.P. and Galchev Asignia Pereda 4.
Construction is planned to be completed in 24 months.
Bulgaria’s transport ministry said in June that the construction of the section will be co-financed with 55 million euro ($71.1 million) saved from other tenders financed under the EU-funded operational program Transport.
In September, local Capital Daily quoted the head of Metropoliten Stoyan Bratoev as saying that the project was expected to cost total of 80 million euro and to be co-financed from the state or the municipal budget.
Sofia’s subway network is 31 km long and has 27 stations. Once completed, the underground will connect the nortwestern part of the city with a large business park in its southeastern outskirts.
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