Open invitation to tender, deadline 26th March, 2004 for construction of the 3.6 km-long 8.5 m-wide Umskaret tunnel and 2 km of access roads on road Ev 12 in Helgeland. It is a single bore that will be drilled and blasted. Support with rockbolts and shotcrete with fibres. Mucking-out with dumper trucks. Geology mainly consisting of metamorphic micaschist. Award in April 2004. Work start in May 2004 for completion in October 2006. Construction cost: NOK200 million. Financing by the Norwegian Public Roads Administration. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=014644-2004, OJ S 17, or contact Statens vegvesen, Bodoe, fax +47 75552951. E-mail jan.nyheim@vegvesen.no 07/04.Open call for tenders, deadline 11th January, 2006 for protection works against rockfalls and avalanches in Fjoesdalen, including a 1.6 km tunnel. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=207198-2005, OJ S 207, or contact Statens vegvesen Region north, Bodoe, fax +47 75552951. E-mail firmapost-nord@vegvesen.no 45/05.