CFR SA, the Romanian rail infrastructure manager, has launched the open tender for the rehabilitation of the Brasov – Sighisoara rail line on Brasov – Apata and Cata – Sighisoara sections.
The estimated total value of the contract is RON 3.1 billion excluding VAT (EUR 690 million), the source of financing being 85% provided by the European Commission through the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) and 15% co-financing from the state budget.
The rehabilitation project on these two sections Brasov-Apata and Cata – Sighisoara, includes a variety of works for rail infrastructure and superstructure: embankments , consolidations, bridges and viaducts, culverts, tunnels, overpasses, roads, catenary , rail traffic, passenger information system, telecommunications, communications, signaling, optical cables, video surveillance, architectural works, electrical works, plumbing, thermo-ventilators, bank protection, signage, environmental protection. This route has 11 severing points, all of them with centralized electrodynamics (CED) – four railway stations, 15 stops, two major railway junctions and a double tunnel of 660 meters length.
”We invite the major companies in this field to participate in this bid, convinced that a project of this scale requires serious involvement on the long term and a professional approach which eventually will be beneficial to the development of rail and of the area where the works are working, ” Marius Chiper, the CEO of CFR SA said.
The deadline for the tenders is February 1, 2017, 16.00 hours and the opening of the bids will take place on February 27, 2017 at 18.00 hours.
CFR SA announces that the tender for the middle section Apata-Cata will soon be launched. For this project, the national railway infrastructure manager and the European Commission signed the financing agreement in November 2016.
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