The bidders are Smart Telecom Consulting, Libra Quality Consult, XOR IT Systems, Bion Advanced Support Team, Ericsson Telecomunication România, KPMG Romania, Protelco, as well as the associations of Ernst&Young and Digital Cable Systems; Concept Electronics, Consorzio per il Sistema Informativo CSI, Piemonte and Pythia International; PricewatherHouse Coopers Audit, ITC and law firm Davis & Baias; Confero Finance and Cognos Bussines Consulting.

The Communications Ministry said the European Union’s funded project is estimated at 4.82 million lei (EUR1.05 million), including VAT. The EU’s inflow for the RO-NET project will be of EUR84 million.

The contract will develop on a 40-month period and aims to ensure the project management for the RO-NET project. The project management will monitor the entire public acquisition activity, as well as the implementation and development of the project, according to the auction chart.

RO-NET aims to develop the nfrastructure network for supplying telecom services in the rural areas of Romania which are not currently covered and no such plan is envisaged for the next three years. (EUR1=RON4.5757)