(Reuters) -Four companies submitted bids for the rebuilding of an 83-km railway and construction of a new track in central Croatia, the country’s largest rail project ever estimated to cost 620 million euros ($725 million), a state infrastructure operator said on Monday.
The reconstruction of the Dugo Selo-Novska railway track will be financed with European Union funds, HZ Infrastruktura said on its website.
A consortium of Ashoka Buildcon Ltd, Serneke International Group AB and Konkan Railway Corp Ltd offered to perform the work for 780 million euros, HZ Infrastruktura said.
Afcons Infrastructure Ltd has submitted a 677-million-euro bid, while Turkish companies Dogus Insaat ve Ticaret Anonim Sirketi and Cengiz Insaat Sanavi ve Ticaret A.S. have bid 990 million and 873 million euros respectively.
The bids will be evaluated in a timeframe provided by law and a contract signed after the selection of the economically most favourable offer, HZ Infrastruktura said. It is estimated that the works will last nearly six years.
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(Reporting by Daria Sito-Sucic; Editing by Dale Hudson)
