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Two Chinese consortia bid for Budapest- Belgrade rail tender
Of the 32 companies that purchased the public procurement docu- mentation for the upgrade and electrification of the Hungarian sec- tion of the Budapest-Belgrade railway line, two consortiums led by Chinese companies filed bids, local media reported on January 25.
A consortium led by state-owned China Railway Engineering Cor- poration , and a consortium of China Communications Construction Co., Ltd. (CCCC), a Chinese publicly traded construction company, and Strabag, have made a bid for the largest ever infrastructural investment in Hungary.
There are Hungarian, European and Far Eastern companies in the consortiums, which include subcontractors with vast experience, said Chinese-Hungarian Railway Nonprofit Ltd, the joint Chinese- Hungarian company behind the project.
It comes as no surprise that no European, let alone Hungarian companies made a bid alone as the conditions in public tender favour Chinese developers, and it was more or less a done deal that Chinese companies would be in charge of the investments, said the Hungarian blog reporting the story.
The start of construction work on the Peljesac bridge will be delayed after complaints were filed to Croatia’s state commission for public procurement over the tender process, Croatia’s Minister of the Sea, Transport and Infrastructure Oleg Butkovic told Croatian Radio on January 24.
Croatian road operator Hrvatske Ceste (HC) announced on Janu- ary 12 that it had selected a consortium of companies led by China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) to build the bridge, but the decision has been now challenged by rival bidders.
Austrian construction company Strabag filed a complaint to Croa- tia’s state commission on January 22 claiming that prices of some of the items in the bid from the CBRC-led consortium were too cheap. Meanwhile, local media reported that another bidder, the consortium comprising Italy’s Astaldi and Turkey’s IC Ictas, also complained about the same issue.
Peljesac bridge work delayed after tender complaints