Open call for tenders, deadline 21st May, 2007 for concession contract for the design, construction and operation of the transverse road axis C-25 between Cervera and Caldes de Malavella. The project consists in dualling the existing road. The 44.4 km Cervera-Manresa section includes one tunnel. The 43 km Manresa-Vic section includes the 668 m Fontfredra tunnel. The 55.4 km Vic-Caldes de Malavella section includes 12 tunnels, whereof the 1,440 m Joanet tunnel. Read E-News Weekly 21/2004 & 14/2004. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=80363-2007, OJ S 66, or contact GISA, Barcelona, fax +34 934444488. E-mail contractacio@gisa.es 16/07.Open call for tenders, deadline 21st May, 2007 for assessment and supervision for the Cervera-Manresa section on the dualling of the transverse road axis C-25. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=80837-2007, OJ S 66, or contact GISA, Barcelona, fax +34 934444488. E-mail contractacio@gisa.es 16/07.Open call for tenders, deadline 21st May, 2007 for assessment and supervision for the Manresa-Vic section on the dualling of the transverse road axis C-25. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=80838-2007, OJ S 66, or contact GISA, Barcelona, fax +34 934444488. E-mail contractacio@gisa.es 16/07.Open call for tenders, deadline 21st May, 2007 for assessment and supervision for the Vic-Riudellots de la Selva section on the dualling of the transverse road axis C-25. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=80839-2007, OJ S 66, or contact GISA, Barcelona, fax +34 934444488. E-mail contractacio@gisa.es 16/07.Payma Cotas in JV with Cetres Enginyers have been awarded a EUR2.1 million contract to assess and supervise the Cervera-Manresa section on the dualling of the transverse road axis C-25. The 44.4 km Cervera-Manresa section includes one tunnel. Visit www.paymacotas.com 29/07.Cicsa and Typsa received a EUR2.5 million contract to assess and supervise the Manresa-Vic section on the dualling of the transverse road axis C-25. The 43 km Manresa-Vic section includes the 668 m Fontfredra tunnel. Visit www.cicsa.es and www.typsa.es 29/07.Ineco and Euroestudios have teamed up to secure a EUR3.2 million contract to assess and supervise the Vic-Riudellots de la Selva section on the dualling of the transverse road axis C-25. The 55.4 km Vic-Caldes de Malavella section includes 12 tunnels, whereof the 1,440 m Joanet tunnel. Read E-News Weekly 21/2004 & 14/2004. Visit www.ineco.es and www.euroestudios.es 29/07.The Catalan government awarded a EUR692.1 million 35-year concession contract to Cedinsa Concessionaria to design, build and operate the Cervera-Caldes de Malavella section of the transverse road axis C-25 which will link Girona to Lleida without having to drive to Barcelona. Cedinsa Concessionaria includes FCC (27.2%), Caixa de Catalunya (20%), Comsa (17.6%), Copisa (7.6%) and Copcisa (7.6%). The 153 km road C-25 is a dual carriageway motorway only on short sections between Cervera and Oluges and the Manresa and Vic bypass roads. The existing single-carriageway road will be dualled to provide two 3.5 m-wide lanes per direction, an additional lane for heavy vehicles where necessary, 2.5 m-wide outer shoulders, 1.5 m-wide inner shoulders and a 5 to 8 m-wide central separation strip. Altogether, 142.8 kilometres will be dualled and a new 2 km motorway section will also be constructed. Fourteen tunnels will be built. The total length of mined tunnels is 3,653 metres. The total length of cut-and-cover tunnels is 528 metres. The first is on the 44.4 km Cervera-Manresa section. The second, the 668 m Fontfreda tunnel, is situated between Manresa and Vic (43 km). Another 12 tunnels, either mined on in cut-and-cover, are on the 55.4 km Vic-Caldes de Malavella section. Among these is the 1,440 m-long Joanet tunnel. Construction, 50% of which will be subcontracted, is scheduled to commence by year end or early 2008 to end in 2010-11. Visit www.fcc.es, www.comsa.com, www.copisa.com and www.copcisa.com 30/07.Open invitation to tender, deadline 20th May, 2008 for quality control for the Cervera-Manresa section on the dualling of the transverse road C-25. Click es/140 for more. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=86771-2008, OJ S 64, or contact GISA, Barcelona, fax +34 934444488. E-mail correu@gisa.es 15/08.