BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 28
Tamilla Mammadova – Trend:
The Department of Roads of the Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia has announced a tender for the construction of a 35-kilometer section of a four-lane Tbilisi-Sagarejo asphalt road, Trend reports citing the department.
This section of the road is part of the international transit highway leading from the Georgian capital towards Azerbaijan.
The construction of the highway, which is estimated at 650.2 million lari ($206.5 million), will be financed from the state budget of Georgia.
The tender is carried out in three lots; the road design work was carried out by Australian and American companies with financial support from the World Bank.
Applications for participation in the tender for the first lot, providing for the construction of the first four-kilometer section of the road from Tbilisi to bypass the village of Vaziani, will be accepted from 25 to 30 July 2021. The cost of the work, which takes 18 months from the date of signing the contract, is estimated at 74.9 million lari ($23.8 million).
The other two lots include the construction of a 23-kilometer Vaziani-Sagarejo road, as well as an eight-kilometer road to bypass Sagarejo, the cost of which is 383.8 million lari ($122.2 million) and 191.5 million lari ($61 million), respectively, with the completion time in the first case in 30 months, in the second - in 24 months. Applications for participation in the tender for these lots will be accepted from 7 to 11 August 2021.
The construction of the Tbilisi-Sagarejo road will significantly increase traffic safety and reduce travel time.
In the state budget of Georgia-2021, about 1.5 billion lari ($477.8 million) were allocated for the construction and repair of roads, which is 15.3 percent more than in 2020.
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