April 8 (SeeNews) - Montenegro's state-run motorway operator Monteput said it has cancelled the tender for the preparation of a preliminary design for an overpass on the Herceg Novi-Budva motorway along the Adriatic coast, following the rejection of the two submitted bids.
The proposals came from local firm Viamont and a consortium of Macedonian civil engineering institute Gradezen Institut Makedonija (GIM) and Podgorica-based engineering institute Institut za Gradjevinarstvo. Both offers were dismissed as containing incomplete information and being incorrectly filled out, Monteput said in a statement last week.
The tender was opened in February with a March 21 deadline for submitting bids. The estimated value of the project was set at 150,000 euro ($163,000).
The Herceg Novi-Budva high-speed road will run along the Montenegrin coast from the border with Croatia to the border with Albania. The project will include an overpass bridge over the Bay of Kotor and a bypass to the Adriatic town of Tivat.
($ = 0.922 euro)