Bickhardt Bau has won a contract for a 400m road tunnel as part of the construction works on the A98 Murg-Hauenstein section near Bad Sackingen, Germany.
The company beat off six other bidders to win the Euro10.7M (US$17.1M) contract including VAT at 19%. In assessing the tenders, the client gave a 90% weighting to price and 10% to technical content.
Bids were more than estimated. Excluding tax, the contract value is Euro9M (US$14.4M), which is almost 6% higher than estimated by the local authority client Regierungspraesidium Freiburg.
The contractor is to build a 9.5m wide by 5m high road tunnel. The structure is being constructed by a 12.4m wide excavation below a ground slab, and is scheduled for completion in March 2010.
project to help improve the economic infrastructure of the Baden-Wurttemberg region that borders Switzerland.
Bickhardt will remove approximately 130,000m³ of spoil from the excavation of the tunnel structure, which also calls for 200 tonne of rebar and 15,000m³ of concrete.
