Preinformation notice for the upgrading of the 7 km Maurice Lemaire tunnel in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines. A parallel tunnel, to be used both for rescue and ventilation, will be bored north of the existing tunnel from both portals. This tunnel will be connected to the existing tunnel by escape cross passages, smoke removal ducts and boreholes for utilities. The existing tunnel needs heavy renovation for ventilation, electricity and lighting, safety, centralised technical management, signalling, video and automatic detection, emergency calls, anti-fire device, etc. Work cost around €120 million. Time frame fall 2002-2007. Visit http://ted.eur-op.eu.int/ojs/en/frame.htm, OJ S 4, document 2828-2002 or contact Société des Autoroutes Paris-Rhin-Rhône, fax +33 1 47533820. Also visit www.saprr.fr 03/02. Restricted tendering for the construction of a 7 km tunnel as part of the upgrading of the Maurice Lemaire tunnel in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines. Deadline 19th February, 2002. The first 500 metres, cross section 40 sq m, will be driven using traditional means in gneiss and mylonite. The rest will be TBM-driven, 6 m-diameter in gneiss and hard abrasive granite. Drill/blast of cross passages between the new and the existing tunnels. Also raise-drilling. Complete renovation of the tunnel. Visit http://ted.eur-op.eu.int/ojs/en/frame.htm, OJ S 11, document 8099-2002 or contact the Scetauroute/Bonnard et Gardel jv for technical details, Lausanne, fax +41 6181122. Also visit www.saprr.fr 04/02.A JV between Bouygues and Eiffage will renovate the 6,872 m-long Maurice Lemaire tunnel on trunk road RN159 in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines for EUR180 million (July 2000 value). A new rescue and service tunnel will be TBM-driven parallel to the existing main tunnel which will also undergo heavy refurbishment. The JV has ordered a 6 m-diameter Herrenknecht hard rock gripper TBM. The machine will be delivered in mid-October 2004 for tunnelling start at end 2004. Support will consist of shotcrete, steel arches, wiremesh, and rockbolts. One concrete segment will be installed at the invert. The first 500 m will be bored using conventional means, a hydraulic hammer or excavator and drill/blast. Geology consists of gneiss and granite. The service tunnel will be divided in two levels by a concrete slab. The lower level will be for escape and rescue and the upper level for exhaust smoke removal and ventilation. The excavated rock will be removed out of the TBM by means of a conveyor belt. The main tunnel, closed to trucks since March 2000 for safety reasons, needs substantial improvements. These will consist in removing, dusting off and recycling the exhaust smoke duct (7 km), rebuilding the culverts, building safety niches, rock chambers for turning points and cross passages to the new tunnel every 400 m. All tunnel equipment (exhaust smoke removal, electric power, lighting, signalling, etc.) is not part of the contract. Work to start in April 2004 for completion in winter 2007. Financing by the concessionaire SAPRR (80%), the government (10%) and the Alsace and Lorraine regions (5% each). Visit www.saprr.fr and www.herrenknecht.com 04/04.Marti Technics has won the muck removal contract for the Maurice Lemaire tunnel renovation from the Bouygues / Eiffage JV. A new safety and rescue tunnel, which route follows a 250 m radius, will be built parallel to the existing 6,872 m tunnel. Marti Technics will design, build, install and manage a 6,755 m belt conveyor, equipped with a fully automatic 500 m belt reserve advancing in perfect synchronicity as the TBM progresses. The tunnel links the Vosges and Upper Rhine counties. It is a former railway tunnel first opened in 1937 and converted to road traffic in 1976. It was closed to heavy vehicles in March 2000 amid fears of another disaster further to the Mont Blanc tunnel fire which, one year earlier, killed 39 people. Visit www.martitechnik.ch. 31-32/04.Restricted call for tenders, deadline 19th May, 2005 for supply and installation of high and low voltage and lighting equipment in the 6,950 m Maurice Lemaire tunnel which connects Haut-Rhin and Vosges departments. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=074258-2005, OJ S 77, or contact Autoroutes Paris-Rhin-Rhone, Paris, fax +33 147533820. 17/05.Restricted call for tenders, deadline 19th May, 2005 for ventilation equipment, associated metalwork and part of their electric supply for the 6,950 m Maurice Lemaire tunnel which connects Haut-Rhin and Vosges departments. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=075318-2005, OJ S 78, or contact Autoroutes Paris-Rhin-Rhone, Paris, fax +33 147533820. 18/05.Restricted call for tenders, deadline 19th May, 2005 for radiocommunication for the 6,950 m Maurice Lemaire tunnel, the parallel safety tunnel under construction and the portals. This tunnel connects Haut-Rhin and Vosges departments. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=075314-2005, OJ S 78, or contact Autoroutes Paris-Rhin-Rhone, Paris, fax +33 147533820. 18/05.Restricted call for tenders, deadline 19th May, 2005 for low voltage systems for the 6,950 m Maurice Lemaire tunnel (facility management, networks, PC equipment, telephone and sound systems in the cross passages, emergency call system, fire detection, galleries and technical rooms, access control). This tunnel connects Haut-Rhin and Vosges departments. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=075313-2005, OJ S 78, or contact Autoroutes Paris-Rhin-Rhone, Paris, fax +33 147533820. 18/05.Restricted call for tenders, deadline 19th May, 2005 for fixed and mobile firefighting means for the 6,950 m Maurice Lemaire tunnel which connects Haut-Rhin and Vosges departments. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=075317-2005, OJ S 78, or contact Autoroutes Paris-Rhin-Rhone, Paris, fax +33 147533820. 18/05.