The consortium Spie Sud Est/Yvroud Europeenne des Fluides, Feyzin secured the EUR7.6 million contract for equipment maintenance in the Grand Lyon tunnels, the most important of which are Fourviere (1,850 m), Croix-Rousse (1,750 m), Brotteaux-Servient and Vivier-Merle (336 m). For more, contact Communaute Urbaine de Lyon, fax +33 478 957097, or visit http://marches.grandlyon.com. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=058386-2010. 11/10...

Gähler und Partner AG of Ennetbaden have secured the EUR2.28 million contract for PM designer for safety refurbishment in 1.14 km-long Mosi tunnel on A4, near Brunnen. Contact OFROU, Zofingen, tel +41 6274575-11, fax -90, e-mail beschaffung.zofingen@astra.admin.ch. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=062920-2010. 11/10...

IG BP2, c/o Bänziger Partner AG of Zurich, secured the EUR2.63 million contract from BAMO for 5.7 km-long N3 Kerenzer tunnel. Contact OFROU, Winterthour, tel +41 522344-711, fax -790, e-mail winterthur@astra.admin.ch. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=062921-2010. 11/10..

Construction contract for Kuechelberg tunnel awarded to PAC SpA consortium, value EUR34,695,272 excluding VAT. More from PAC in Capo di Ponte, tel +39 0364331037, fax +39 036442303, e-mail info@pacspa.it and client APB in Bozen, tel +39 04714125-14, fax –39, e-mail gare-11.5@provincia.bz.it Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=071475-2010. 11/10...

Rete Ferroviaria Italiana SpA is inviting companies to prequalify for civil engineering work on railway tunnels in Italy. Further information and documents from Iacomino Raffaele at Gruppo Ferrovie dello Stato in Milan, tel +39 02637 148-19, fax –20, e-mail dns-qs@rfi.it to whom requests to participate should be sent. Visit

Pre-feasibility study being undertaken by ILF Consulting Engineers for construction of single track railway line along the Karakorum highway between the end of the existing railway network in the south at Havelian and the border between Pakistan and China near the famous Khunjrab Pass in the north.

Prequalification underway by MTR for tender reference no 703 for West Island Line SHW to SYP tunnels value EUR30 million with a view to selective invitations to tender being issued in 4Q/2008 for contract award in 3Q/2009. Expressions of interest to Malcolm O’Neill, tel 3921 3383, e-mail moneill@mtr.com.hk Visit www.mtr.com.hk/eng/tenders/new_projects.html 45/08.

Open call for tenders, deadline 4th February, 2008 for conceptual design of the extension to Galdakao of the Bilbao metro. This is a 4.5 km section, 2.5 km of which will run in tunnel. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=292744-2007, OJ S 240, or contact Basque government, Bilbao, fax +34 945019018. 52/07-01/08.

Accelerated restricted procedure, deadline 28th December, 2007 for construction of the second lot on the Capo Boi-Terra Mala trunk section to substitute the so-called Orientale sarda road SS 125. This 6.6 km section includes three tunnels and a parallel safety tunnel. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=288230-2007, OJ S 237, or contact ANAS, Rome, fax +39 064456224 or 0644462009. E-mail r.memoli@stradeanas.it 52/07-01/08.

Restricted call for tenders, deadline 30th January, 2008 for executive design and reconstruction of a 11.1 km section of motorway A3 in Cosenza province. This section includes six tunnels (five bored and one using the cut-and-cover method). Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=288228-2007, OJ S 237, or contact ANAS, Rome, fax +39 064456224 or 0644462009. E-mail r.memoli@stradeanas.it 52/07-01/08.

Negotiated call for tenders, deadline 11th January, 2008 for construction supervision of a 1,687 m-long, 100 sq m cross-sectional tunnel and a 1,613 m-long 20 sq m parallel safety tunnel, a shaft to be built raise boring and other minor works. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=287497-2007, OJ S 236, or contact Regierungspraesidium Stuttgart, Schwaebisch Gmuend, fax +49 71711040799. 52/07-01/08.

Restricted call for tenders, deadline 31st January, 2008 for construction of the 2 x 3.9 km Violay tunnel on the Balbigny-La Tour de Salvagny section of motorway A89. Both tubes will be connected by seven pedestrian cross passages and six vehicular cross passages. Conventional tunnelling will be used. Support with bolts, steel arches and shotcrete. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=290921-2007, OJ S 239, or contact ASF, Rueil-Malmaison, fax +33 477325652. 52/07-01/08.

Open call for tenders, deadline 23rd January, 2008 for construction and 25-year operation of the 2 x 1.1 km Serra da Grota Funda tunnel, which will link Baixadas de Jacarepaguá and Guaratiba, in the west area of Rio de Janeiro. The project is budgeted at BRL900 million. Contact Secretaria Municipal de Obras e Serviços Públicos, Rua Afonso Cavalcanti nº 455 - 9º andar, sede da Gerência de Licitações, Cidade Nova, Rio de Janeiro. Tel. +55 25032633 or 25032567 and e-mail odli@pcrj.rj.gov.br or visit www.rio.rj.gov.br/smo 52/07-01/08.

Open call for tenders, deadline 10th January, 2008 for delivery of 53 booster fans for the Nøstvet tunnel on highway E6 between Vinterbro and Assurdalen. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=280700-2007, OJ S 230, or contact Statens vegvesen Region east, Lillehammer, tel. +47 81522000. E-mail olegri@vegvesen.no 50-51/07.

Restricted call for tenders, deadline 28th January, 2008 for design and construction contract for the heavy refurbishment of the 1,750 m Croix-Rousse tunnel in Lyon. This includes also boring a safety tunnel parallel to the existing road tunnel. Read E-News Weekly 43/2007. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=286140-2007, OJ S 235, or contact Communauté urbaine de Lyon, Lyon, fax +33 478957097. 50-51/07.

Section B of the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem high speed line includes tunnel #1 (3.5 km) named Akad, north of Latroun. Six candidates are competing for the final contract. The bidders are Shapir Civil & Marine Engineering and Alpine Mayreder; Solel Boneh Building & Infrastructure and Zueblin; Minrav and China Railway Third Group Corporation; Danya Cebus and China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC); A. Arenson and Zschokke (Implenia); and Ashtrom and Bamtonnelstroy of Russia.

Open call for tenders, deadline 31st January, 2008 for construction of the 170 MW Baixo Sabor scheme in Bragança district, including a 123 m-high upstream dam and a 43 m-high downstream dam, which will house underground two generating units each fed by independent tunnels. A tunnel will also divert the river on its left bank. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=214124-2007, OJ S 174, or contact EDP, Lisbon, fax +351 210012320 or 220013509. E-mail antonioferreira.costa@edp.pt or antonioabreu.aguiar@edp.pt 49/07.

Open call for tenders, deadline 22nd May, 2008 for fire protection of the Bjørvika tunnel in Oslo. The contract includes delivery and installation of fire protection on the roof and walls (approx. 39,400 sq m and approx. 10,850 sq m, respectively), delivery and installation of fireproof seals in structure joints (approx. 350 m of element joints in the immersed tunnel section, approx. 1,300 m of segment joints in the immersed tunnel section and approx. 3,300 m, of section joints in the cast-on-site section of the tunnel), engineering design/detailed planning of fire protection/fireproof seals as described above. Read E-News Weekly 39/2007, 40/2005, 28/2005, 26/2005, 23/2005, 4/2005, 18/2002 & 10/2002. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=279483-2007, OJ S 229, or contact Statens vegvesen region east, Lillehammer, tel. +47 81 522000 or fax +47 24058774. E-mail kjell.furre@vegvesen.no 49/07.

Restricted call for tenders, deadline 8th January, 2008 for construction of the first section of the Valtrompia highway, which will connect highway A4 with the Trompia valley in Brescia province, segment Ospitaletto-Sarezzo, section Concesio-Sarezzo. Click it/117 for details. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=271878-2007, OJ S 223, or contact ANAS, Rome, fax +39 064456224 or 0644462009. E-mail s.pisani@stradeanas.it 49/07.

Open call for tenders, deadline 15th January, 2008 for construction supervision and quality control of the 2-lane, 8 m-wide, 5.1 km Oshlidargong tunnel in northwest Iceland between Isafjordur and Bolungarvík. Included in the project are also two concrete bridges and 3.7 km-long access roads. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=279490-2007, OJ S 229, or contact Vegagerdin, Reykjavik, fax +354 5221079 or 5221609. E-mail rg@vegagerdin.is or ge@vegagerdin.is 49/07.

Open call for tenders, deadline 16th January, 2008 for approx. 560 loudspeakers, approx. 155 cameras, video detection, video management system, fire alarm systems, etc. in four tunnels (Effner, Richard-Strauss-Strasse, Leuchtenberg, Innsbrucker Ring) on Munich’s middle ring road. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=282683-2007, OJ S 232, or contact Landeshauptstadt München, Munich, fax +49 8923360215. E-mail submissionsbuero.bau@muenchen.de 49/07.

Invitation for bids, deadline 14th March, 2008 for civil works (contract MR 77/2007) for the Nadarivatu hydropower project, which includes several structures. Among these, a water conveyance system consists of two options, either a 1,936 m low pressure tunnel, surge/drop shaft, 1,349 m high pressure tunnel and tunnel discharge isolating valve, or a 1,936 m low pressure tunnel, surge chamber, tunnel discharge isolating valve and 1,448 m high pressure penstock. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=279507-2007, OJ S 230, or contact Fiji Electricity Authority, Suva, fax +679 3311882. E-mail tdelairewa@fea.com.fj 49/07.