Novinite reported that as expected, the Sofia City Hall has ranked first the offer of the consortium between the Bulgarian Stanilov company and the German Heilit in the public tender for a builder of a waste treatment plant in Bulgaria's capital.

Stanilov Heilit's price offer is BGL 208,808,700 while the cost for maintenance of the equipment is BGL 9,427,949 per year. The Greek German consortium between Helektor and Hochtief, offering BGL 240,614,029 and BGL 9,828,899 respectively, ranked second.

It is expected that the signing of the contract and the groundbreaking might be delayed by 2 to 3 months since some of the bidders have already announced they will appeal the procedure before the Commission for Protection of Competition. The rejected offers include major Bulgarian companies such as Glavbolgarstroi, Balkanstroi, Valmex and Holding Patishta.

The construction deadline is 2 years from the date of the signing of the contract. The plant will be located near the village of Yana, adjacent to Sofia, and it has already been delayed by a year.

(Sourced from www.novinite.com)