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Fabio Sánchez, Head of Department 7 of National Roads, announced that a tender was called, and the remaining 11 km have already been awarded to complete the highway in the section that is at the height of Lehmann to finish joining Sunchales, Rafaela , Lehmann, intermediate localities». The project was tendered on the morning of Thursday, April 28, and includes the duplication of the road along the existing layout, from the north of the city of Rafaela, where the new West Bypass ends, to the junction with Provincial Route No. 13, in outskirts of Ataliva. The firms that participated in the tender were: Vialmani SA ($6,457,360,672.37), Decavial SAICAC ($6,695,298,741.89), Dycasa SA($6,763,575,908.90), Luis Losi SA ($7,383,996,688 .60) and JCR SA ($8,580,000,000.00). Although Decavial presented the second best economic offer, the technical evaluation of the proposals was the one that best adjusted to what was required in the bidding terms and conditions. The bid opening ceremony held at the headquarters of the Cooperative Institute of Higher Education (ICES) was attended by the governor of Santa Fe, Omar Perotti; accompanied by Fabio Sánchez; the National Deputy, Roberto Mirabella; departmental senator Alcides Calvo and mayor Gonzalo Toselli, among other authorities. With the presence of Governor Omar Perotti, Vialidad Nacional finalized the opening of bids for the construction of 16 new kilometers of the national artery, in the section between the end of the Rafaela West Bypass and the junction with RP 13. The government The national government will invest close to $7,000 million in the duplication of the road that will have interchanges in the access to Lehmann and Route 13, along with other new bridges over the route. The term of work is 24 months. In relation to the two contracts in execution, it should be noted that 25 kilometers have already been enabled, between Angélica and the south of Rafaela. Between both works, there is an investment of $22,620 million by the National Government for the sections between RN 19 and Rafaela, and between RP 13 and Sunchales, over 59 kilometers of double track. These routes, added to todays tender, will extend the RN 34 Highway over a total of 75 kilometers. “There are 16 kilometers and it was awarded to the Decavial SAICAC company. What comes now is the signing of the contract and then the Commencement Certificate, for these procedures there are certain times to complete, but personally, I had contact with the manager of the company (Alfredo Striglio), who has already toured the area to install the workshop, see the purchase of quarries and we were talking about the first steps to take, which are related to the measurements for the subsequent purchases of land from the owners. Nothing has been done about this because it was a totally new tender with the project that had been converted from a highway to a highway. In short, you have to start from scratch with the measurement of the fields of the fronts. All this entails a process because the measurement must be carried out of those who are going to take more of the field measurement, The truth, he continued, is that after so much fighting and fighting for the highway, we managed to get it tendered and awarded, and despite the adversities that currently exist at the national level, at National Roads we continue to work with the highway and, as the Governor said, Perotti we are going to be doing it. Perhaps we will not complete it in our management because this section is going to transcend it, but we are going to leave everything on track so that in the coming years this 16-kilometre section can be completed, which had a budget, at the time, of $7,000 million, but updated today is much more”. Regarding the tentative start of the works, the Head of District 7 of VN was cautious and pointed out that it is not possible to be certain of a start date for the work because there are many situations to resolve and although the work already has a budget, it is underway. a rearrangement at the national level and that causes the signing of contracts to be delayed a bit, because once the contract begins, payments have to be started. They asked us for three months and one has already been consumed because August is almost over and we will have two left to rearrange the budget items that were already assigned and it would start again.” And with satisfaction, Sánchez closed by saying we have not stopped and the highway of RN No. 34 continues to run, but we have been a little late with the payments to rearrange all this and then we will return to normal compliance. |
