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Slovakia road repairs – tender to reopen

The tender process for a series of road repairs in Slovakia is being reopened, following problems with the original process.
October 29, 2019 Read time: 1 min

The tender process for a series of road repairs in Slovakia is being reopened, following problems with the original process. The tendering will be handled by Slovakia’s road management company, SSC. The work is worth close to €200 million in all and involves repairs to 79 road sections. The contracts were supposed to be four year periods but the previous tender process had to be cancelled as the packages were not divided into smaller portions.

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