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Potential contractors found for first ISPA environmental sector project

Today, the five bids received for the tender concerning the construction of access road and leachate pipeline for the Tallinn-Jõelähtme Landfill (under the Tallinn Waste Management Phase I Project) were opened.

The bid with the least cost was submitted by AS FKSM &Teede REV-2 J.V. (3,930,556.4 EUR), the next ones according to proposed cost being those of Skanska EMV (4,037,984 EUR), AS ASPI (4,530,350 EUR), AS TALTER (4,608,442.3 EUR), and HMB-URANSAN J.V. (4,816,859 EUR).

According to mr. Rainer Rohesalu, Head of Investment Department of the Ministry of the Environment, all bids were received by the deadline stipulated in the tender dossier, being signed and supplemented with financial guarantees. Consequently, all five bids will undergo the next round of administrative and technical assessment by the assessment commission.

According to mr. Rohesalu, the commission expects to reach its decision in a couple of weeks. The estimated time of concluding a contract with the party having submitted of the most successful bid who meets all requirements stipulated in the tender dossier is July, 2002.

The Jõelähtme Landfill (Tallinn Waste Management Phase I Project) is the first environmental project to be co-financed from the European Union pre-accession instrument ISPA in Estonia  that has reached the stage of shortly concluding a contract with the contractor. No other ISPA environmental project has reached this stage to date. In 2000-2001, financing agreements were signed concerning the projects of  construction of the Tartu tunnel collector, renovation of the Narva sewage treatment plant, construction of the Viljandi sewage treatment plant, and closure of  the Pääsküla landfill. The procurement notice concerning the Tartu tunnel collector project is expected to be published in June; the completion of tender dossiers concerning the other projects listed above is also expected in the coming months.

For additional information please contact:

Mr. Rainer Rohesalu
Head, Investment Department
Ministry of the Environment
Telephone: (+372) 631 2333