The contract to build the second section of the highway was awarded to an Italian consortium of Salini and Secol. The winner of the contract to build the third section is a consortium of Teloxim Con SRL (controlled by businessman Theodor Berna) – Comsa SA (Spain) – Aldesa Construcciones SA (Spain) – Arcadis Eurometudes SA (the Netherlands).
Constructors Spedition UMB and Strabag challenged the contract awarding procedures and their contestations were overruled by settlement body CNSC, whose decision was appealed with the Bucharest Court of Appeals. The court also overruled the contestations filed by the two constructors, allowing for the deals to be closed.
Last year, CNADNR estimated construction costs at a little over 1 billion lei (EUR0.22 million), VAT excluded, for each section.
The Lugoj-Deva highway is part of Pan-European transport Corridor IV. (EUR1=RON4.437)