SOFIA (Bulgaria), February 6 (SeeNews) – Two consortia, Metro Build Mladost and Geometro B.P., have filed the lowest bids in the tender for the construction of a 2.62-kilometre section of the Sofia underground railway network in the city's southern neigbourhood of Mladost, local media reported.
Metro Build Mladost has placed the lowest bid of 53.9 million levs ($37.3 million/27.6 million euro) for the first lot of the project (1,550 metres in length with two underground stations) and has received the maximum of 45 points for its technical offer, local website Stroitelstvo Gradat reported on Tuesday.
The tie-up competed for the lot with Turkish company Dogus Insaat Ve Ticaret and Bulgaria’s Stroyinject, which had proposed to do the job for 57.9 million levs and 54.2 million levs, respectively.
Geometro B.P. offered the lowest bid of 31.5 million levs for the second lot (1,070 metres in length with one station and an underground car parking lot). The tie-up got 43.63 points for its technical offer.
The Geometro B.P. consortium competed with local company Adval, and several other consortia (Porr Business Park, Metro Vitosha 2012, Metro Business Park and Galchev Asignia Pereda 4) for the lot.
Construction is planned to be completed in 24 months.
Sofia’s subway network is 31 km long and has 27 stations. Once completed, the underground railway will connect the nortwestern part of the city with a large business park in its southern outskirts.
(1 euro = 1.95583 Bulgarian levs)