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KPL will be selected as the leading partner in arranging bus stops and Trubars, but will still be negotiating the price.
MOL issued a decision a few days ago to grant KPL and its partners the ability to arrange eleven bus stops in Ljubljana. KPL was also selected for the renovation project of Trubarjeva ulica, and will work with Maribors Nigrad. If there are no complaints on the public procurement process for both projects, the price negotiations will be followed.
On the public procurement portal, the municipality published a tender in early August, seeking a contractor for the arrangement of eleven bus stops in the area of ??the Vecnja pot, Vrhovci and Tržaška cesta. In the tender, the value of the public procurement was not stated, since, according to MOL, the Public Procurement Act does not provide for the publication of the design price. However, it is already from the rebalance of this years budget that the project was applied for the tender of the Ministry of Infrastructure for co-financing of measures of sustainable mobility, and MOL has already received a green light for state co-financing.
Namely, the project will be co-financed by the European Cohesion Fund in the amount of more than EUR 400,000, while the additional budget for this years budget is EUR 113,673. For the arrangement of eleven new bus stops, they would spend a total of 513,000 euros together. The LPP plans to set up stops at the Zoo this year, while the remaining nine will next year.
One of the interested bidders asked MOL to extend the deadline for the submission of tenders, since the tender was published just during the holidays. The municipality announced it on August 6, and the deadline for submission of bids expired on August 21. The interested bidder was told that the subscriber (ie MOL) will not renew the deadline.
KPL negotiates to the lay-out of LPP and Trubar stations
Only the company KPL with the partners - the Ljubljana-based company Prenova-Gradbenik and the utility buildings of Grosuplje - applied in due time. At the end of August, MOL had already issued a decision recognizing the capability of KPL and partners, which means that the selected tenderers will participate in the second phase of the public procurement process. We asked the Directorate of Public Procurement at the Ministry of Public Administration (MPA) what exactly this decision means and whether the municipality has already selected KPL for the contractor. Otherwise, the Ministry of Public Procurement can not comment. They stress, however, that the implementation of the competitive procedure is negotiated with one of several two-phase procedures.
"For them, the Public Procurement Act stipulates that the contracting authority starts the procedure with the publication of a contract notice and sets a deadline for the submission of applications. Among all the applications received, they are assessed and issued a decision on the recognition of competence. The second phase follows when the contracting entity invites all qualified providers to submit a bid. Only after the receipt of bids will negotiations and evaluations of tenders be made and the decision on the selection of the tenderer, together with the price, will be taken, "explained the MPA.
In view of the fact that only the offer of KPL (as a lead partner) and a consortium of companies arrived, MOL will still be negotiating the price of the works. KPL, which has already renovated many roads in the capital, including Gosposvetsko, Dalmatinova street, the northern part of Slovenske ceste and Drenikovo, has chosen the municipality as the leading partner in the renovation of Trubarjeva ulica.
KPL and its partners timely awarded the bid for two projects, followed by negotiations.
The staging arrangements are estimated at half a million euros, while the LPP buys 28 buses.
Trubars refinement is estimated at five million euros, it will last a year and a half.
Together with Nigrad, KPL will also negotiate the price for the execution of works in the second stage of public procurement. The decision to recognize the capability of KPL and Nigrad for the renovation of Trubarjeva Street was issued by MOL two days ago, and the following Tuesday invited the residents, the surrounding guests and traders to the discussion about the renovation at Magistrat. The renovation of Trubar and the connecting streets, which is expected to last a little less than a year and a half, and which took place in three phases, is estimated at around five million euros.
Next year, 28 new urban and suburban buses
The municipality intends to buy dynamic information displays at the LPP stops next year (it is electronic display of bus arrivals), as it has earmarked 130,000 euros in the 2019 budget and an additional 130,000 in 2020. There are about 700 bus stops in Ljubljana, with 105 electronic displays.
This is not all, as the LPP also plans to renew the fleet. As they say in the company, 213 urban and 65 long-distance buses are on average almost ten years old. This year, they bought four cities, and next year they intend to buy 18 urban and 10 long-distance buses. MOL will allocate EUR 2.7 million for their purchase from the budget, while the Eco Fund will be earmarked for EUR 11 million. So next year they will spend as much as 13.7 million euros for the purchase of 28 buses. |
