July 11 (SeeNews) - Serbia's healthcare ministry has launched a tender for modernisation and reconstruction of Vojvodina clinical centre in Novi Sad, it said.
The project is financed through a loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) and involves the construction of four tertiary hospitals adjacent to the Vojvodina clinical centre with a total gross area of 33,276 square metres, the healthcare ministry said in a tender notice on Wednesday.
The works are expected to be carried out in the period between January 6, 2020, and May 6, 2023, and the deadline for the submission of bids is September 13.
Interested bidders should have had a turnover of 70 million euro ($78.9 million) in the last three years and need to pay a guarantee of 1 million euro to participate in the tender.
In 2006, the EIB approved the lending of a 150 million euro loan, extendible to 200 million euro, to the Serbian government for the reconstruction of the clinical centres in Nis, Belgrade, Novi Sad and Kragujevac.
The project remained frozen due to lack of additional funding by the Serbian state until 2018, when the government provided 165.8 million euro and started the reconstruction of the clinical centre in Belgrade.
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