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.

Prequalification for international public bidding number LPI/CO-JBIC-SCBP-02-2007, deadline 30th October, 2007 for final construction works for the Panama City and Bay of Panama sewage project. The project includes the construction of an approx. 7 km-long, 1,800 to 2,100 mm-diameter pipeline. The proposed construction method is with 3 to 4 m-diameter single or double EPB shield. 39/07

Open call for bids with prequalification, deadline 30th November, 2007 for the design, construction, financing and operation of the approx. 940 m-long Orlovski road tunnel under the Neva river, Smolnaya and Sverdlovskaya embankments in St. Petersburg. The tunnel starts on the left bank in the central part of the city near Orlovskaya Street, crosses the Neva between Liteiny and Bolsheohtinsky bridges and exits between Piskarevsky Avenue and Shosse Revolutsii. 39/07

Open call for tenders, deadline 24th September, 2007 for construction supervision and control measurements on lots H1 and H2-2 on the Kundl/Radfeld-Baumkirchen section of the Inn valley railway. Lot H2-2 is a 2.4 km cut-and-cover tunnel section. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=215110-2007, OJ S 175, or contact Brenner Eisenbahn, Innsbruck, fax +43 512576887. E-mail bwd@beg.co.at 38/07

INVÍAS, the Colombian road authority, published the pre-bidding rules for the studies, design, social and environmental management, land expropriation, construction, operation and maintenance of the 8.8 km La Linea tunnel parallel to the pilot tunnel, in Cajamarca-Calarcá direction, and 24 kilometres of new access roads.

Open call for tenders, deadline 15th October, 2007 for construction supervision for the 7.4 km Silberberg tunnel on the Ebensfeld-Erfurt high speed railway. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=216027-2007, OJ S 176, or contact DB ProjektBau, Erfurt, fax +49 3614300189 or 3412342399. 38/07.

Tender notice (KR/PD/J&K/Tender/DDC/Tunnels/Km 30-100/O), deadline 23rd October, 2007 for detailed design consultancy and construction supervision for tunnels, including open cutting and slope stabilization, at chainage 30 to 100 on the Katra-Dharam section of the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla rail link. The document sale ends on 21st September. Contact Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd, Managing director, Corporate office, Belapur Bhawan, Plot No. 6, Sector 11, CBD Belapur, Navi Mumbai 400614, Maharashtra. Tel. +91 2227572015, fax +91 2227572420. Visit www.konkanrailway.com 38/07

Notice of works contract, deadline 23rd October, 2007 for upgrading of the lighting in the three-lane Mena tunnel (2 x 315 m) on the Udine-Carnia-Tarvisio highway A23 in Udine province; in 11 three-lane tunnels on the Genoa-Savona highway A10: Mervalo (right tube only, 336 m), Crevari (716 m / 436 m), Borgonuovo (right tube, 722 m), Lupara (right tube, 321 m), Arenzano (right tube, 238 m), Maxetti (right tube, 624 m), Cogoleto II (right tube, 361 m), Beuca (right tube, 641 m), Lerone (left tube, 357 m), Don Bosco (left tube, 442 m) and Rossello (left tube, 476 m); in 24 tunnels on the Genoa Voltri-Arona section of highway A26 and the A8-A26 junction

Open call for tenders, deadline 22nd October, 2007 for supply and installation of ventilation equipment (semi-transversal ventilation) for the second, 5.1 km Roppener tunnel and upgrading in the existing tunnel on highway A 12 in Inn valley. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=205530-2007, OJ S 166, or contact ASFINAG, Vienna, fax +43 5010814420. E-mail baumanagement@asfinag.at 37/07.

Open call for tenders, deadline 9th October, 2007 for construction supervision as well as geotechnical consultancy and documentation related to Lot 1 of the trunk road 23 bypass in for construction supervision in Garmisch Partenkirchen, which includes Kramer tunnel. Read E-News Weekly30/2006. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=204952-2007, OJ S 165, or contact Staatliches Bauamt Weilheim, fax +49 8819901100. E-mail poststelle@stbawm.bayern.de 37/07

Negotiated procedure, deadline 9th October, 2007 for construction of a 4.4 km section (the Jarlsberg contract UBT01) on the new double-track railway from Barkåker to Tønsberg (7.9 km), including amongst other works a 1.7 km tunnel. This section has been designed by Norconsult, Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=207910-2007, OJ S 168, or contact Jernbaneverket, Oslo, tel. +47 91650262. E-mail gret@jbv.no 37/07.

Open call for bids, deadline 8th October, 2007 for construction plans including tender documents for the 11.5 km Sky-Langangen section on the 4-lane motorway E18 between Vestfold and Telemark counties. The section includes four twin bored tunnels: Pauler (2 x 450 m), Maleroed (2 x 250 m), Sandbekkaasane (2 x 160 m) and Hobekkseter (2 x 370 m) and one cut-and-cover tunnel in Solum (2 x 75 m). Norwegian profile T9.5. The whole distance of the project contains rocks of a plutonic complex, made up essentially of monzonitic rocks, mainly larvikite. Construction method to be drilling and blasting. Because the project runs through one of the world's richest fields of Larvikite (Norwegian pearl granite and one of the world's most precious building stones), there will be restrictions for the blasting. The expected date for publication of tenders for construction is September 2008. Work commencement is hoped for December 2008. The total cost of all five tunnels is approx NOK215 million (2006 price). Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=199985-2007, OJ S 160, or contact Statens vegvesen Region south, Arendal, fax +47 95175248. E-mail mortkl@vegvesen.no 37/07

Open call for tenders, deadline 15th October, 2007 for studies for a new underground station in Bern under the existing station and access to it for the Swiss federal trains, RBS trains and passengers. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=208962-2007, OJ S 169, or contact SBB, Olten, fax +41 2295611. E-mail th.vogel@sbb.ch 37/07.

The invitation to tender to construct the 1,288 m-long Secondigliano-Di Vittorio section of the Naples metro to enable joint operation of trains travelling on the Naples-Giugliano-Aversa line operated by Metrocampania Nordest and Line 1 of the metro has been cancelled. Click it/123. 36/07.

Open call for tenders, deadline 12th December, 2007 for construction of the 2 x 1,850 m-long Stafelter tunnel in Niederanven municipality between the Waldhaff interchange on the N11 to Echternach and Mägrond on Heeschdrëferbierg plateau. Each tube will accommodate two lanes. They will be connected by six cross passages at intervals of approx. 270 metres.

Invitation to prequalify, deadline 19th September, 2007 for construction of a 44.6 km-long 5.2 m-diameter raw water transfer tunnel and related works (lot 1-1) of the Pahang-Selangor raw water transfer project. Visit www.ktak.gov.my/template03.asp?tt=Ads&AdsID=14 36/07.