The deadline for the construction of the highway section from Mateševo to Andrijevica is five years, but "Monteput" and the Chinese consortium "PowerChina - Stecol - PCCD" will work to build this route by the end of 2030. The contractor will submit a bid guarantee and other documentation in the coming days, while the signing of the 693.969.668 euro contract is expected at the end of January or beginning of February.
This was confirmed to "Vijesti" by the director of "Monteput". Milan Ljiljanić.
The state-owned company announced yesterday that it had chosen a Chinese consortium as the contractor, that is, that it will carry out the main design and build the second section of the Bar - Boljare highway, and that after signing the contract, design and preparatory work on this route will begin. The second section of the Bar - Boljare highway is about 23 kilometers long, and will be financed from the state treasury, through a 200 million loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and a 150 million euro European Union grant.
"The deadline for appeals has expired, while the deadline for the construction of the second section of the highway is five years. We expect the works to begin this year and be completed by the end of 2030. We expect the consortium to submit the guarantee and other documentation in the coming days, while the contract will be signed at the end of this or the beginning of next month," said Ljiljanić.
The company "PowerChina" is already working on or has completed billions of euros worth of projects in the Balkans, including infrastructure for the "Expo 2027" project in Serbia, part of the Belgrade metro and city bypasses, as well as the Herzegovina Bridge on the Neretva between Mostar and Čapljina, the "Ivovik" wind farm and the Kalinovik hydroelectric power plant. The company "Stecol" is their daughter company, while there is no information about "PCCD" on the internet.
The Turkish-Azerbaijani consortium "Cengiz-Azvirt" also participated in the tender for the second section, offering 735,01 million euros, the Chinese company "China Communications Construction Company" with 724,63 million, while the financial offer of the consortium "Shandong Foreign Economic & Technical Cooperation and Shandong Luqiao Group" was not considered, because they did not meet the conditions for opening the financial part of the offer.
The Chinese contractor also built the first section of the highway from Smokovac to Mateševo, and the job, which then went to the China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC), lasted more than seven years. Those 42 kilometers of highway, including basic and forgotten works, interest and exchange rate differences, cost Montenegro about 1,3 billion euros.
All deadlines for this route have been met, and the works that began in May 2015 were supposed to be completed on the same day in 2019, and the former Minister of Transport guaranteed that the highway would be opened then. Ivan Brajović. The section was officially opened on July 13, 2022, more than three years after the original deadline. In addition to the delay, the construction cost was exceeded by about one hundred million, and an entire interchange, electrical and water supply networks, and several access roads were forgotten during the construction contract...
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