The Municipality of Pljevlja has announced a new tender for the construction of the first phase of Patriarch Varnava Square in the city center, and interested parties can submit bids until January 9. The deadline for contract execution is 120 days from the date of the contractor's introduction into the work, and the estimated value of the works is 479.338 euros, plus VAT in the amount of 100.661 euros.
The estimated value of the works in the repeated tender is around 100.000 euros higher than the first one, which was recently canceled because no bids were received.
President of the municipality Dario Vranes, after the tender was canceled, he stated that it was another in a series of tenders in the north for which there were no interested companies.
"This is a consequence of the labor shortage in Montenegro, especially in the construction sector. Large companies are focused on projects in Podgorica and coastal municipalities. The north is less interesting to them, and they also state that the costs of carrying out the work are significantly higher," Vranes pointed out.
"The monument is finished and is located in Novi Sad. Its construction cost 112.000 euros including VAT. I hope that we will get a quality contractor so that we can complete the work by the middle of next year. The square will include a monument, a fountain, a public water fountain, a park area with decorative lighting and a promenade closed to traffic. The entire project will cost around 1.200.000 euros," said Vraneš.
He added that the work is being delayed due to problems with the removal of illegal structures.
"After the removal, we received new terrain where the geological subsoil had to be examined, and then the entire previous project had to be redesigned. Upon completion of the works, Patriarch Varnava Square will certainly become the most representative part of the city," said Vranes.
Patriarch Varnava, whose secular name was Petar Rosić, was born in Pljevlja in 1880 and was the 40th Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church from 1930 to 1937. He died suddenly in 1937 under mysterious circumstances, at the moment when the Yugoslav Parliament was voting on a concordat between the Vatican and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, which he opposed.
"In order to erect the monument, we first have to complete the entire Square. We had a project that we had to redesign. That project did not include the fountain that we plan to build at that location, and the construction of an amphitheater, or open-air stage, was also planned," said Vranes.
He said that the project also includes the complete closure of Tršova Street from the intersection near the Gymnasium to Patriarch Varnava Square, and that this area will be landscaped and turned into a promenade.
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