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.

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