LJUBLJANA (Slovenia), August 8 (SeeNews) – Slovenian state-run project company 2TDK has rejected all three bids placed in a tender for construction of two bridges in Glinscica valley, part of the future second track of the railway line that would link the port of Koper to Divaca logistics hub, it said.
An analysis of the best bid in the tender placed by a consortium of Slovenian companies Markomark Nival, Nival Invest and Ekorel, has found the offer to be invalid due to incorrect data, 2TDK said in a statement on Wednesday.
The prices offered by the other two consortia exceeded the budget of the project, 2TDK said.
The project company plans to relaunch the tender as soon as possible, it added.
In March, 2TDK launched a tender for the construction of two bridges and a culvert in Glinscica valley, a project co-financed by the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF).
The new, 27-kilometre long railway track and the existing track will offer a combined capacity of 231 trains per day or 43.4 million net tonnes of cargo per year. The existing railway line connecting Divaca to the port of Koper line does not meet the standards for the core network which were adopted by the Council of the EU in 2012 and are expected to be implemented by 2030.