Slovenia extends deadline for filing financial offers in Divaca-Koper railway tender

The reason is that 2TDK has not yet received all decisions of Slovenia's commission for public procurement award procedures, DKOM, on the requests for auditing the tender procedure submitted by disqualified bidders, the company said in a statement on Tuesday.

In October, 2TDK said it shortlisted four bidders in the tender: a consortium of Slovenia's Gorenjska Gradbena Druzba and CGP and Czech company Metrostav; a tie-up of Austria's Strabag, Germany's Ed. Zublin and Turkey's Gulermak; a consortium comprising Slovenia's Kolektor CPG, Turkey's Yapi Merkezi Insaat and Ozaltin Insaat; and Turkey's Cengiz Insaat.

In September, DKOM disqualified six out on 10 candidates which vied for the contract in the first stage of the tender, saying they were unfit to proceed to the next stage. 

In May 2019, the European Investment Bank approved a loan of up to 250 million euro ($305 million) for the construction of the second track of the Divaca-Koper railway line.

Luka Koper, the company operating Slovenia's Adriatic port of Koper, said in April it expects that the second railway track to Divaca will begin operations in 2026.

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