Eight companies bid for underground transport extension in Sofia

Eight companies have filed offers in the tender for building the second line of the Sofia underground transport, a note on the website of Sofia municipality informs. The candidates should keep their bids within cost estimates of EUR 185.2mn. The length of the line is estimated at 6.5km and will be serviced by 7 stations until 2012. Sofia ’s municipal firm Metropoliten and the transport ministry signed a month ago an operational agreement for financing 85% of the project under the EU-funded transport operational programme. Metropoliten called a new tender for leading constructor three months ago, as the nine offers in the first tender exceed the budget limitations.