Polish Via Carpathia section attracts 11 bids

Turkish contractor Kolin Insaat has submitted the lowest bid.
By David Arminas July 17, 2020 Read time: 1 min
Poland’s GDDKiA is delighted with Turkish bid around Bialystok (photo © Didreklama/Dreamstime)

Turkish contractor Kolin Insaat has submitted the lowest bid for the section of Poland’s S19 Via Carpathia between the villages of Zachod and Ksiezno.

Kolin Insaat’s offer – one of 11 bids - is €130.1 million (US$150.06 million) for the design and build contract in the metropolitan area of Bialystok, a city in eastern Poland.

The highest bid of €161.1 million (US$182.5 million) came in from Polish contractor Mostostal, according to Poland’s General Directorate for National Roads and Motorways, GDDKiA.

The winner is expected to be announced this autumn with work starting soon after. Completion is set for 2024.

The S19, as well as the S61, constitute part of the trans-European route Via Carpathia, of which many sections are either under construction or in the planning stages. It will eventually connect Klaipėda in Lithuania with Thessaloniki in Greece.

Poland’s Expressway S19 will run from the border crossing to Belarus in Kuźnica through Białystok, Lublin and Rzeszów to the border with Slovakia at Barwinek, where it will connect with Slovakia’s future R4 Expressway.

Finance & Funding

For more information on companies in this article

Related Content

  • Poland: A1 tender attracts 11 offers, including one from Strabag
    February 19, 2015
    Construction of a 15.2km section of Poland’s A1 motorway has attracted 11 bids. A Strabag consortium made the lowest bid for the section, between Pyrzowice and Rzasawa, coming in at €146 million. A consortium formed by Polaqua and Dragados was the second lowest, at €156.4 million. The highest bid was €183.4 million. The contract calls for a construction period of 30 months. Meanwhile, the province of Mazowsze, or Masovia, with its 5.5 million inhabitants and the capital Warsaw, will get nearly €2.1 billion
    Read More
  • Support for Poland’s A1
    July 6, 2012
    The European Investment Bank (EIB) has in total granted a long-term facility of €1.070 billion for the construction of the second phase of the A1 motorway forming part of the priority trans-European transport network connecting the north of Poland (Gdansk) with the Austrian capital Vienna, via the Czech and Slovak Republics. The loan will finance the construction of a 62km section of the A1 motorway between Nowe Marzy and Torun on the basis of a design, build, finance and operate (DBFO) concession. This con
    Read More
  • Date set to complete D1 Višňové Tunnel section
    July 20, 2023
    The D1 section between Lietavská Lúčka and Dubná Skala in Slovakia includes the partially completed 7.5km twin-tube Višňové Tunnel - to be the country's longest.
    Read More
  • Poland’s GDDKiA promises to improve road procurement processes
    January 12, 2015
    The Polish national roads authority GDDKiA has said that it will no longer look for the cheapest offer in road-building tenders. Instead, it will, in line with European Union requirements, consider whole life cycle factors such as durability, cost of exploitation and quality. Poland has long been criticised by the road construction industry, both within the country and in the rest of Europe, for handing out tender wins to the lowest bidder with scant regard for life-cycle costs. The government has also b
    Read More

Highlighted Content