Bulgaria announces a tender for the highway to Greece
Early March Bulgaria's government announced the tender for the
construction of the first lot of the Struma Highway, running along
the main route between Bulgaria and Greece. The Lot 1 section
between Dolna Dikanya and Dupnitsa is 17 km long; and € 68 million
necessary for its construction is guaranteed by the EU and state
funds. The deadline for selecting a company to construct the road
and a supervisor is July 2011.
At the same time, Bulgaria's Road Infrastructure Agency started
evaluating the submitted bids for the construction of the Lot 2 of
the Maritsa Highway. Ten companies took part in the public tender
for the construction of the 34 km lot from Dimitrovgrad to
Harmanli. The estimated construction costs are of LV 200 million
(about € 100 million), and the deadline is 27 months from the date
of the contract signature. On this occasion, public tender
requirements were made stricter if compared to those for the Trakya
Highway, after the Moststoy building company, in charge of
the construction of the segment between Yambol and Karnobat,
declared bankruptcy. For this reason, only companies that had
previously built highways in Bulgaria can now bid for the Maritsa
Highway.