Romania\u2019s National Road Investment Company (CNIR) awarded on Tuesday, December 16, the contract for the design and construction of the Bac\u0103u\u2013Piatra Neam\u021b express road to a Romanian\u2013Bulgarian consortium. The value of the contract is RON 5.17 billion (some EUR 1 billion), excluding VAT, and its signing will take place if no appeals are filed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The express road will connect the municipality of Piatra Neam\u021b to the Moldova Motorway A7 and will have a length of 51 kilometers.<\/p>\n
The total duration of the project is 48 months, divided into 12 months for design and 36 months for execution. The warranty of the works is five years.<\/p>\n
The award criteria included additional points for the contractor that will hire unemployed persons from the counties of Bac\u0103u and Neam\u021b. The feasibility study estimates the need for a workforce of 1,800 people over the entire duration of the works, according to CNIR director general Gabriel Budescu, cited in the press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n Overall, the express road will include 30 structures (bridges, overpasses, viaducts) with a total length of approximately 16 kilometers. Two of these will exceed 1,000 meters, the longest being the 1,072-meter viaduct located at the road junction connecting to the Moldova Motorway A7, the Bac\u0103u\u2013Pa\u0219cani section.<\/p>\n The project also provides for the construction of five road junctions: a \u201ctrumpet\u201d-type junction at km 0 for the connection with the A7, the Racova junction for the connection with DN 15, the Podoleni junction, the S\u0103vine\u0219ti junction, and the Piatra Neam\u021b road junction.\u00a0<\/p>\n Along the route, S3-type service areas will be arranged on both carriageways, as well as a Maintenance and Coordination Center that will manage the operational maintenance of the road and traffic safety.\u00a0<\/p>\n