Only one bid worth 59.202.880 euros was submitted for the tender for the development of technical documentation and the construction of the 11-kilometer-long Lovćen - Cetinje cable car - the Podgorica-based company "XEnergy" (formerly "Novi Volvox") with subcontractors. This company, together with the Italian "Leitner", built and opened the Kotor (Dub) - Lovćen (Kuk) cable car in 2023, for which they have a 30-year concession.
"XEnergy" submitted a bid with Kotor's "Briv Construction", Podgorica's companies "Geonex", "Studio Grad", "Planplus", "Geo Max Group", "GP Team", "Liming Projekt", Danilovgrad's "ING Invest" and Belgrade's company "Koto". Last summer, the Italian "Leitner" also became a co-owner of 20 percent of the company "XEnergy".
The Ministry of Public Works announced a tender for this job in mid-November, while the bids were opened on December 31 last year. The estimated value of the project is almost 60 million euros, while the Royal Capital previously announced that the Lovćen - Cetinje cable car with an intermediate station at Ivanovi koriti should be completed and opened in 2027.
According to the Government's concession act for the implementation of the Kotor-Cetinje cable car project from 2015, the route is divided into three parts with four designated terminal locations - Dub, Kuk (intermediate station), Ivanova korita (intermediate station) and Cetinje, with a total length of approximately 15 kilometers. The location for the concession is determined by the Special Purpose Spatial Plan for the Lovćen National Park.
According to the project terms of reference, the designer should first draft the main route design, the position of the poles and intermediate stations, which will be subject to coordination with the Ministry of Public Works, and after coordination, the basis for the development of the main design.
The cable car is built according to the "design and build" principle, and its equipment should be such that it can transport from 100 to 800 passengers per hour. The designer is obliged to design all road, electrical and other infrastructure up to the connection point for the needs of the construction and operation of the facility.
"The location for the Cetinje exit station is located directly next to the planned protection zone (UNESCO World Cultural Heritage) of Cetinje. For this reason, in order not to damage this location (park, open-air theater - summer stage), in accordance with urban planning and technical conditions, it is planned to place the station and partially bury it in the terrain. In this way, and with the embankment towards the park, a large part of the base station is essentially hidden by the surrounding terrain. The location was chosen because of its proximity to the city center, appropriate valorization of the historical core and the already existing traffic infrastructure, primarily the existing parking lot for passenger cars and buses, which is located about 80 meters from the location in question," the project terms of reference state.
The Royal Capital of Cetinje signed a contract with the company "Inženjer Gogić" on July 16 last year to develop a conceptual design for the second phase of the Kuk (Lovćen) - Ivanova korita - Cetinje cable car, and the work was completed on time. The urban planning and technical conditions for this route were obtained in 2014.
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