Developing the Warsaw-Krakow road might depend on changes to tender law
A consortium of six Radom based construction and telecom companies plan to
build the second part of the E-7 express road from Bialobrzegi to Jedlinsk,
which is a part of a route connecting Warsaw with Krakow. The investment
will amount to between zl. 200 million to zl. 300 million and will be
financed from their own capital and loans. The consortium wants to set up a
partnership with the National Roads and Highways Authority (GDDKiA), which
was considering how to rebuild this road. The entrepreneurs propose that the
state budget would return their expenditures and then would start paying
backing the loans in 2008. According to consortium representatives,
construction would begin in 2004 and finish two years later. The main
obstacle may be the legal requirement that such contractors have to be
chosen through a tender procedure. The president of GDDKiA, Tadeusz Suwar,
hopes such problems might be soon solved, as in September the Sejm will
examine drafts on making such contracts much easier. (Puls Biznesu, p. 9)
A.L.
