The Pro-Infrastructure Association reveals that one of the most important investment projects of Cluj City Hall, the Metropolitan Belt, is in a new deadlock, after the municipality allegedly canceled the tender. “Cancellation before Holy Week on the Cluj-Napoca Metropolitan Belt”, reports the Pro-Infrastruture Association, which on April 9 signaled that it was waiting for the outcome of this auction.
“This outcome came today: the cancellation of the tender after 5 months in which the Cluj City Hall hatched the only offer submitted by the people of Sibiu from CON-A and the people of Bistri from Dimex in November 2023. It is unbelievable the way the Cluj administration led by the mayor Emil Boc is really struggling to “implement” this project: feasibility study managed from 2017 that was supposed to be ready in 12 months but lasted 4 years, no one participated in the first auction started in February 2023 and it was canceled in May, and for the second one, they needed 5 months to disqualify the only offer, although they could do it in 3-4 weeks”, the Pro-Infrastruture Association reported.
Actual de Cluj reported how the Cluj-Napoca Local Council approved on April 5 the updating of technical and economic indicators for the Metropolitan Belt project. According to the adopted Decision, the costs increased by more than 133 million euros, the mayor Emil Boc citing “updates in line with the inflation rate”.
The new decision of the City Council was made under the conditions in which the City Hall contracted only a section of phase 1 of the project, namely 2 kilometers between Cluj-Napoca and Florești, for which the design began.
Cluj Napoca City Hall has not yet issued a point of view regarding the cancellation of the tender for this project, tender awarded in November by the association CON-A OPERATIONS, DIMEX 2000, HYDROSTROY AD, CONCELEX and Automagistral-Pivden, for the amount of 3.2 billion of lions.
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