The Directorate for Capital Projects has announced another tender for the construction of facilities and parking at the "Žarski" ski resort in Mojkovac. Since last December, this is the third attempt to find a contractor for this work, and it is worth 3,92 million euros.
The tender was officially announced on October 11 and will last until the same day in November, according to the documentation on the Montenegrin Electronic Public Procurement (CeJN) website. Work on the "Žarski" ski center began in 2020, and the ski resort is located in the northwestern part of Bjelasica and territorially belongs to Mojkovac.
The tender also states that in case of delay, the contractor will pay a thousandth part (per mille) of the contracted price of the works for each day of exceeding the agreed completion of the works. It is also added that the amount of the fine cannot exceed five percent of the total contracted price of the works.
The previous tender for this work was announced this summer, and lasted from June 17 to July 17. Then, on July 23, the Commission for the Implementation of the Public Procurement Procedure canceled this public procurement because there were no bids. And the value of that tender was 3,92 million euros.
For the same reason, the public procurement for this work, which the Administration announced at the end of last year, was cancelled. That tender lasted from December 29 to February 19, but it was also canceled on February 26 because there were no offers. The value of this tender was lower than those that followed and amounted to 2,42 million euros.
The commission canceled both tenders on the same basis, that is, according to Article 140 paragraph 1 point 4 of the Law on Public Procurement.
"The ordering party is obliged to cancel the public procurement procedure if no, or no valid, bids have been submitted, or bidders have been excluded from the procedure," says that article of the Law.
According to the website of the state "Skijališta", which will manage this ski center, "Žarski" was planned according to the Spatial Plan of Special Use (PPPN) for Bjelasica and Komov from 2010. It is emphasized that the area where the ski resort is planned has the greatest potential for the development of ski tourism, that in that place nature has done everything by itself, so the terrain is ideal for the construction of ski slopes.
"The future slopes are covered with a grass cover on which you can ski even with only 15 centimeters of snow. Currently, the construction of the Z-4 cable car, the Italian manufacturer "Leitner", the construction of ski slopes, base station facilities (restaurant, cafe-bar, ski-rental, infirmary, economic premises, public toilets...) is in process. At the foot of the base area of the "Žarski" ski center, the construction of 14 hotels and 11 apartment-type pension hotels is planned. This ski center will be connected to the ski center "Cmiljača" and thus will have a total of 14 cable cars and ski lifts, and 60 kilometers of ski trails. The construction of the ski center is the future of the development of Mojkovac as a tourist destination and represents the backbone of the economic and economic development of the municipality," says the "Skijališta" website.
Problems from the start, power lines and roads are being built for the future ski resort
The works on this ski resort have been going on since 2020, but there is still no end in sight, and the then prime minister Dusko Markovic announced that in the next two years "Žarski" will be one of the most modern ski centers and an incentive for the development of Mojkovac and Montenegro.
At the end of last year, he was also the vice president of the Municipality of Mojkovac Ivan Ashanin, told "Vijesta" that he expects the work on the infrastructure for this ski resort to intensify this year.
"For some of those projects that were at a standstill, new tenders have been announced or are expected to be announced soon, and all of that required work and time. It is about the Vragodo-Žarski road, the "Žarski" base station, electrical lines with substations at the future ski center, as well as the road that will connect the Mojkovac and Bjelopolje ski resort "Cmiljača". Also, we are talking about the Ravna Rijeka - Cmiljača transmission line, from where 'Žarski' is also supplied," Ašanin explained at the time.
In mid-September, the Traffic Administration announced a tender worth EUR 3.199.240 for the construction of a bridge over the Tara River, on the road section from Mojkovac, Podbišće to the Vragodo ski resort. This one, as the Minister of Tourism said earlier Simonida Kordić, the priority project will provide tourists in Mojkovac with better access to the "Žarski" ski area.
The Mojkovac local administration included the possibility of building a gondola, which would connect the ski slopes on the Mojkovac and Bjelapolje side of Bjelasica with the "Kolašin 1600" Ski Center, in the proposal for the draft state spatial plan.
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