The Government of the Czech Republic, through the Transport Ministry, has delayed the tender process to hire advisors for the Expressway R4 PPP project.

The government has plans to hire legal, financial and technical advisors for the project. The selected advisors will support the government to prepare and launch the tender process to select a private partner for the development of the road.

The Expressway R4 connects Prague and south-west Bohemia region and continues to Bavaria. The road is partially developed, from planned 84 km only 47 km are in operation, 5 km are under construction and 32 km remains to be built. Based on the Czech Transport Sector Strategies and the feasibility study, it is expected that the project will be full operational by 2022.

The project is planed to be developed on a design, build, finance, operation and maintenance (DBFOM) model. The concession period would be between  25 and 30 years. The total project investment is estimated at CZK7.5 billion (US$305.2 million).

Interested parties have to submit their request to participate on or before 21 December 2015.

See tender prior information notice (PIN):

http://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:377667-2015:TEXT:EN:HTML&tabId=0