Complaints over selection of e-toll system contractor rejected
10. May, 2021
Ljubljana – The National Review Commission has rejected requests for a revision of the selection of Slovakia’s Skytoll for an e-tolling system for cars in Slovenia, which had been filed by both losing bidders.
Skytoll was picked by the motorway company DARS in January over Slovenian telecoms company Iskratel, which submitted a joint offer with Hungary’s ARH Informatics, and Slovenian IT firm Marand, which had a joint bid with the state-owned postal and telecoms operators and Austrian firm Kapsch.
Skytoll’s offer, at EUR 15.7 million excluding VAT, was slightly higher than Iskratel’s and under half the offer submitted by the Marand consortium. The rival bids were deemed inadmissible.
Ljubljana – The National Review Commission has rejected the appeal by the Austrian builder Strabag against the decision by the state-owned company 2TDK to pick a Slovenian-headed consortium as the contractor for the DivaÄa-Ärni Kal section of the new railway to the port of Koper. This ends all review procedures related to the project.
Strabag appealed in late March the decision by 2TDK to entrust the section to Kolektor CPG in partnership with the Turkish companies Yapi Merkezi and Ãzaltin as the cheapest bidder.
The cost of the section was capped at EUR 472 million. The Kolektor CPG-led consortium offered to build it for EUR 403.6 million, while Strabag submitted a EUR 463.5 million bid in partnership with the German company Ed Züblin and Turkish Gülermak Agir.
Bids value first part of DivaÄa-Koper rail at EUR 404-463 million
5. March, 2021
Ljubljana – Two contractors have submitted financial offers for the first part of main works on the DivaÄa-Koper rail section. A consortium led by Slovenian builder Kolektor CPG values the works at EUR 403.6 million, while the offer by Austrian builder Strabag and its consortium is EUR 463.5 million.
Both bids are below the ceiling price of EUR 472 million and therefore valid. The price excludes value added tax, 2TDK, the company managing the rail project, said in a press release on Thursday. 2TDK expects it will now take ten days to review the bids.
E-tolling contract in parliamentary spotlight
20. February, 2021
Ljubljana – The parliamentary Commission for Oversight of Public Finances debated Friday the selection of Slovakia’s Skytoll for an e-tolling system for cars. While the opposition alleged irregularities, motorway company DARS and the Infrastructure Ministry rejected any impropriety. The MPs asked the anti-graft commission to look into the tender.
The session came at the request of four centre-left opposition parties, which quoted media reports suggesting Skytoll does not have the required experience, and that DARS had changed the terms of the tender several times, including shifting the deadline so that Skytoll was able to reference a recent project.
Skytoll e-tolling deal under scrutiny
10. February, 2021
Ljubljana – The parliamentary Public Finance Oversight Commission is to discuss the recent decision by the motorway company DARS to pick the Slovak company Skytoll to set up the country’s e-tolling system in the wake of reports that DARS tailored the tender for Skytoll. The decision will also be challenged by one of the rivals in the tender.
The session was demanded last week by the opposition Alenka Bratušek Party (SAB), a move to which Infrastructure Minister Jernej Vrtovec responded by saying that he had complete confidence that DARS management managed the tender transparently.