4 consortia submit bids for Çanakkale 1915 bridge tender

4 consortia submit bids for Çanakkale 1915 bridge tender

The bids from four consortia for a tender to to build and operate the 10 billion lira ($2.62 billion) Çanakkale 1915 suspension bridge over the Dardanelles Straits were announced on Thursday, with the winner to be announced after a commission reviewing all bids.

Speaking at a press conference to announce the offers, Transport, Maritime and Communication Minister Ahmet Arslan said that bid with shortest construction and operation period came from Daelim- Limak - SK- Yapı Merkezi OGG consortium. With a total construction and operation period of 16 years, two months and two days and 10.35 billion Turkish lira project cost, the consortium is the likely winner of the tender.

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Slated for completion by 2023, construction of the Çanakkale 1915 Bridge will mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Turkish Republic by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

Accordingly, whichever consortium offers the shortest projected completion term under the build-operate-transfer model and transfers it to the government will be chosen for the construction phase of the project.

Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said in October that Asian and Turkish contractors had shown interest in the project and added that the construction of a 3.7-km (2.3-mile) bridge between Lapseki and Gelibolu in the northwestern Çanakkale named "Çanakkale 1915" was expected to start on March 18, 2017 - the anniversary of one of the Ottoman Empire's final victories.

Yıldırım said it would take around five years to complete.

"Whoever gives the shortest time for the construction will win the bid," said Sefer Tirman, the head of the General Highways Directorate (KGM) and chairman of the bid committee.

Under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım, Turkey has been working to build giant infrastructure projects across the country to boost economic growth, including Istanbul's third airport with a capacity up to 200 million passengers a year and one of the world's largest suspension bridges across the Bosporus Strait in Istanbul which opened in August.

In 2015, Turkey raised the bar with the financial closure of seven projects totaling a record $44.7 billion, according to the World Bank Group.

A total of four mega-projects are currently under construction: Istanbul's third airport, the Gebze-Halkalı commuter train link in Istanbul, the Ovit tunnel in northeastern Anatolia, and the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars Railway.

Last year Turkey opened a third bridge over the Bosporus Strait (the Yavuz Sultan Bridge, named for a 16th century sultan known for his expansion of the Ottoman Empire), plus the world's fourth-longest suspension bridge over Izmit Bay (the Osman Gazi Bridge), and the Eurasia Tunnel, which is an underground road tunnel linking Istanbul's European and Asian sides.

The following are the four consortiums bidding for the build-operate-transfer (BOT) project:

1. Daelim (South Korea) - Limak - SK (South Korea) - Yapı Merkezi OGG (Turkey)

2. IHI (Japan) - Itochu (Japan) - Join (Japan)-Makyol (Turkey)-Nurol (Turkey) - Japon Express Way (Japan) OGG

3. Cengiz (Turkey) - Kolin (Turkey) - CRBC (China) OGG

4. IC İçtaş (Turkey) - Astaldi (Italia) OGG

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