The contract is estimated at EUR60 million.
The two bids were submitted by consortium PADECO (Japan)/Oriental Consultants Ltd Japan/METROUL SA Romania/SENECA Group International/SYSTRA (France) and consortium Ingerop International (France)/Ingerosec Corporation (Japan)/High-Point Redel (UK) /IPTANA Romania/SALFO (Grecia).
The auction winner will ensure technical and economic consulting services, design services, technical assistance and will supervise the construction of the new mainline, which will link Bucharest’s subway network to the Henri Coanda International Airport in Otopeni.
Works on the subway mainline are scheduled to start in the second half of 2012 or at the beginning of 2013.
In March 2011, Romanian President Traian Basescu signed in Tokyo (Japan) an agreement concerning a EUR300 million loan granted to Romania by the Japanese government for the construction of the new subway line.