Moldovan transport ministry cancels contract with Romanian firm due to repair Chisinau-Giurgiulesti highway

13:43 | 26.09.2016 Category: Economic

Chisinau, 25 September /MOLDPRES/ -The Transport and Roads Infrastructure Ministry (MTID) on 24 September informed that it had cancelled a contract with the enterprise Pa&Co International SRL ltd company from Romania, selected at an international ender to repair the M3 Chisinau-Giurgiulesti highway.

This decision, the first ever one for Moldova, was taken after a string of failed attempts to help the entrepreneur carry out its works according to the tender documents. “The entrepreneur’s incapacity to make progress in this contract (almost 2.6 per cent of the works’ volume) and the total failure to ensure a proper management of the traffic prompted the MTID leadership and the one of the project’s implementation unit to cancel the present contract,” reads a press release by the Moldovan Transport Ministry.

The cancelled contract includes the segment of road from the kilometer 151 to km 171 on the Ciumai-Vulcanesti road and the segment from the km 179 up to km 190 on the road from Vulcanesti to access to the Cismichioi village.

Transport and Roads Infrastructure Minister Iurie Chirinciuc instructed that a string of urgent works should be carried out on the segment provided for in the contract, which will turn this road operational during the cold period. At the same time, the documents on re-tendering of this road segment will be prepared till next spring, so that other works start in the summer of 2017.

The contracts with the enterprise from Romania were signed in March 2014. Under the contract, the term of carrying out the works is of two years plus 365 days – period of notifying defects. The highway was to be made available for traffic on 28 August 2016.

The value of the contract with the Romanian firm is 19 million euros – money provided as a loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Moldova is cancelling a contract financed by European development partners for the first time ever.

(Reporter L. Grubii, editor L. Alcaza)

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