Energoprojekt and Strabag competing for reconstruction of Republic Square – Job worth EUR 7.5 million

(Republic Square) Two bids were sent for the tender for the reconstruction of the Republic Square, a job worth around RSD 930 million, or nearly EUR 7.75 million, one by a group of companies gathered around Austria's Strabag, and the other headed by Serbia's Energoprojekt.

– The works are supposed to last for 420 days, as this is a complex reconstruction. All installations are being changed, including water supply and sewer network, the power grid, granite slabs will be laid down – Goran Vesic, Deputy Mayor and City Manager of Belgrade, said yesterday.

Strabag's offer is worth RSD 768.2 million without VAT, whereas Energoprojekt offers to do the job for RSD 774.9 million, Blic reports.

– The evaluation is expected to take two to three weeks, following which the winner will be known – the competent bodies say.

After that, provided there are no complaints, the signing of the agreement will follow, creating the conditions for the works, which will take 14 months, to begin.

This reconstruction is only the first phase of the announced works on the Republic Square. They will encompass the development of the plaza itself, but not the announced demolition of Staklenac or the moving of the traffic from this route. The bus stops at the square itself might be removed, but passenger vehicles and public transport vehicles will still be able to pass through this area.

In place of Staklenac, as Vesic announced earlier, an opera and ballet building will be raised.

– When the contest for the preparation of the project of the Ministry of Culture is completed and the facility built, the square will be fully developed and formed, modeled after those in big European cities – Vesic said.

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