Accelerated restricted procedure, deadline 29th July, 2004 for final design and environment impact study for the Agrigento-Caltanisseta link on SS 640 in Porto Empedocle, section from km 44 to A19 interchange. Includes two twin-tube tunnels, one bored and the second to be built between diaphragm walls, for a total length of 2 x 2 km. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=105079-2004, OJ S 124, or contact ANAS, Rome, fax +39 064454956. 29/04.The eight bidders for widening to four lanes road SS 640 in Porto Empedocle, a project worth EUR448 million and including a 4 km tunnel, two tunnels comprised between 600 and 700 m, two shorter tunnels and a few cut-and-cover tunnels, are Impregilo; Pizzarotti; Condotte; a joint venture of CMC and CCC; a joint venture of Todini and Maltauro; consortium Operae (Baldassini Tognozzi-Pontello and other Tuscan contractors); consortium SIS (Sacyr, INC and Sipal); and a team of consortium Uniter (formed by contractors based in Catania and Parma provinces: Tecnis, Bosco Aldo, Cogip, Ing. Pavesi, Silmar, Sipa, Sigenco and Foglia) and Ergon Engineering and Contracting (CO.ES.TRA., Inso and the Etruria consortium). The final design and environmental study was commissioned to a JV of Technital, Delta Ingegneria, Infratec, Progin and SIS. Click it/107. Read E-News Weekly 8/2006. Visit www.technital.it, www.deltaingegneria.it, www.infratecsrl.it and www.progin.it 39/07.

Accelerated restricted procedure, deadline 28.07.2009, for refurbishment of 28 km section from km 44 to A19 interchange on SS640 Porto Empedocle, in Caltanissetta and Enna provinces. Contract value EUR787.5 million, of which EUR229.4 million for tunnel. Contact ANAS SpA Direzione Generale, Via Monzambano, 10, attn Responsabile del Procedimento Dott. Ing. Massimiliano Fidenzi, I-00185 Rome, tel +39 (0)6490326, fax +39 (0)644462009, e-mail r.memoli@stradeanas.it. Bid n. PA-12/09. http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=192482-2009 and http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=198035-2009. 30/09.

The JV C.M.C. Cooperativa Muratori e Cementisti (Ravenna), C.C.C. Societí  Cooperativa (Bologna) and Tecnis SpA (Tremestieri Etneo, CT) secured the contract for refurbishment of 28 km-long section from km 44 to A19 interchange on SS640 Porto Empedocle, in Caltanissetta and Enna provinces. Contract value EUR990 million, of which EUR229.4 million for tunnel. Contract duration 1,550 days. Bid code n. PA-12/09. Visit www.stradeanas.it/. 16/10.