The eight bids, submitted in the tender for the construction of the 32-kilometer Trakiya highway section between Stara Zagora and Nova Zagora, will be opened on Friday.

The "Road Infrastructure" Agency reported that 66 companies had entered documentation for the tender but only eight met the criteria to go into the final tender.

The bidders are Turkish ‘Doush’- Austrian ‘Strabag’ constortium, ‘Glavbolgarstroy’-‘Highways-Cherno More’ consortium, Greek ‘Terna Le’, ‘Alpine Holding Roads’, ‘Unified Highway Trace’, Greek ‘Aktor’, Society of CPA Constructor Trakiya.

The bidding companies are required to have had an income of no less than BGN 200 M over the last three years, to have built at least 35 km of highways in the last five years, and to provide funding of BGN 20 M on their own.

The final contractor is set to be chosen before the end of April, with construction set to start on May 3 according to Regional Development Minister, Rosen Plevneliev.

The GERB government has promised the completion of the Trakiya, Maritza, and Lyulin Highways by the end of its term in 2013, and tangible progress on the Struma and Black Sea Highways. A total of nine tenders for nine lots from the various highway projects are to be held over the next four years.

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