The Ministry of Public Works has announced a new €14.647.050 tender for the development of a conceptual design and main project for the reconstruction of the Jasikovac road to the Cmiljača base settlement, after the previous two were cancelled. The aim of this 10,5-kilometer-long route is to connect the Cmiljača ski center and the Žarski ski resort, and the work would be carried out on a “design and build” basis.
This third tender was announced in early November and will last until early December, and will cost 2,25 million less than the previous one, whose estimated value was 16.900.000 euros.
The contractor will have a month and a half to prepare the conceptual design, four months for the main project and a maximum of one year and seven months for the works, or a total of two and a half years for the complete job.
Ski center Cmiljača is 14 kilometers from Bijelo Polje, and is located in Bjelasica. Ski resort Žarski is located on the northwestern part of the same mountain, territorially it belongs to Mojkovac, and work on it began in 2020. The state has been planning for some time to valorize these locations in the north and connect them, while future ski centers will be managed by the state company "Skijališta Crne Gore".
This project plans to reconstruct the road, build intersections, access roads, reconstruct buildings, repair landslides, and it is also stated that the project also needs to provide sidewalks and a bicycle path. The sidewalks and these paths must be separated, both on the left and right sides of the road, in order to enrich the tourist offer of the Cmiljača mountain center. In addition, the project must also plan for local lighting on this section.
The contractor will have a month and a half to prepare the conceptual design, four months for the main project, and a maximum of one year and seven months for the works, or a total of two and a half years for the complete job.
"The purpose of the conceptual design is to obtain the best position with the aim of maintaining the existing route for which the main project was prepared by the "Republic Institute for Urban Planning and Design Podgorica" and part of the road was constructed as part of the route excavation, and part of the road route facilities were also constructed. During the construction of the road excavation, landslides were formed that were not addressed in the previous project and special consideration is necessary for these sections," the tender documentation states.
The procedure was previously managed by the Capital Projects Administration, whose jurisdiction was taken over by the Ministry of Public Works. In the second tender, in early April this year, the Administration selected the Bijelo Polje-based company "Konstruktor Group"'s bid worth 14.132.800 euros as the most favorable offer, but there was a possibility of appealing that decision, which the bidder "Indel Inženjering" took advantage of.
That tender was annulled after it was determined that the Administration had violated the rules of procedure when clarifying the tender documentation, when they changed and amended the deadline for the completion of the work. The Administration also failed to make a confirmation of the submission of bid guarantees and to attach that confirmation, along with the minutes of the bid opening, as a scanned copy on the same day.
That tender lasted from the end of last year to the beginning of March, while the first one was announced in November last year, but was canceled in mid-December 2024, after the Administration determined that the tender documentation needed to be changed.
The designer will also have to submit a study of simultaneous power and the number of metering points, in order to obtain the necessary conditions from the Montenegrin Electricity Distribution System (CEDIS). The reconstruction project of this route received urban and technical conditions from the Bijelo Polje Secretariat for Construction in 2014.
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