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Argentina highway project

Argentina’s Transport Ministry will carry out a major programme for road tenders at the end of 2016. In all work on 15,000km of road projects will be put out to tender. The total estimated cost of these works has yet to be revealed however. A new tender process is also underway for Argentina’s Route 3 project. The tender is for the completion of the highway, with 11 bids having been received. The project has a budget of US$145.2 million. The work on the highway is so far some 36% complete. The project had b
June 9, 2016 Read time: 1 min
Argentina’s Transport Ministry will carry out a major programme for road tenders at the end of 2016. In all work on 15,000km of road projects will be put out to tender. The total estimated cost of these works has yet to be revealed however.

A new tender process is also underway for Argentina’s Route 3 project. The tender is for the completion of the highway, with 11 bids having been received. The project has a budget of US$145.2 million. The work on the highway is so far some 36% complete. The project had been awarded earlier to a different contractor but difficulties with the work resulted in the new tender process being started.

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