Cluj-Napoca City Hall has extended the deadline for submitting offers for the RON 211 million (EUR 42.4 million) contract for supervising the works on Metro Line M1 by over a month, until January 12, 2024. This contract represents the largest consultancy contract in transportation in Romania to date, according to Romania-Insider.com.
The city initially set a deadline in early November, then delayed it to December, and now again for January, according to documents consulted by Economedia.
The supervision contract is funded through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, but the PNRR milestone sets the signing of all contracts by December 31, 2023, which may no longer be the case.
The design phase of the first metro line in Romania aside from the one in Bucharest began on September 1, 2023, and the government is preparing record compensation of RON 283 million for property owners who will be expropriated.
Cluj’s planned Metro Line M1 has 21 stations and costs RON 9 billion (EUR 1.8 billion), of which RON 1.5 billion is from PNRR funds, and the completion period is 8 years. The consortium consisting of Gulermak (Turkey) – Alstom – Arcada is the contractor. Gulermak will bring to Cluj the team that worked on the metro in Dubai, according to the ClubFeroviar publication.
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