No cancellation of tender for bypass around Dimitrovgrad - contractor to be selected soon

The Minister of Infrastructure of Serbia, Milutin Mrkonjić, said on January 22nd, 2010, that the tender for construction of the bypass around Dimitrovgrad with the highway to border crossing Gradina would not be cancelled and added that the tender commission would select the contractor within the next few days.

Mrkonjić said to the press after the meeting of the Supervisory Committee of Corridor 10 that Alpine, although it had given the best offer, might not get the job "because there is no country in the world in which a company first sues the state and then asks the state to give it a job".

When asked if that meant that Alpine set the condition to get the job in order to give up the charges against Serbia before the Arbitrary Court in Paris, Mrkonjić said that it was one of the variants.

Alpine submitted the bid of 2.9 billion RSD on the tender for construction of the bypass around Dimitrovgrad, with the highway to border crossing Gradina.

Slovenian SCT offered 3.2 billion RSD, Croatian Konstruktor offered 3 billion RSD, Slovenian Primorje offered 3.4 billion RSD, the consortium of road maintenance companies Planum, PZP Beograd and PZP Užice offered 3.7 billion RSD, while the most expensive was Austrian Strabag with the offer of 5 billion RSD.