The PPP projects are supposed to cover 150 kilometres of national highways. These are to be managed in three packages: sections of the D1 highway make up the first and third packages; while construction of parts of the R1 dual carriageway in central Slovakia making up the second package. Join discussion...

Slovakia as of 2014 will pay concession-holders of private-public partnership (PPP) projects approximately €700 million a year over a 30-year period, said Transport Minister Ľubomír Vážny at an HNClub meeting on Tuesday, October 13. Join discussion...

French public works group Vinci (SGEF.PA) will secure financing this week for an 887 million euro ($1.3 billion) public-private partnership (PPP) road project in Slovakia allowing construction to start, sources close to the project said on Tuesday. Join discussion...

R1 expressway, which is to be built by the private concessionaire GRANVIA within the PPP project model, is to grow more expensive by €540 million, it was approved by the Government at its extraordinary session on Friday. The Government also agreed on the refinancing of the project, with the banks abandoning the demand for underpinning. Join discussion...

Although he wouldn't specify the name of the bidder, it is thought to be a consortium made up of the following companies: Hochtief PPP Solutions GmbH, Alpine Bau GmbH, FCC Construcción S.A. and Western Carpathians Motorway Investors Company GmbH. According to Vážny, there are indications that a second potential applicant didn't manage to submit its bid within the deadline on May 11. Join discussion...

The priority road will be constructed by a consortium of Vinci Concessions S.A. and ABN AMRO Highway B.V., under a public-private partnership (PPP) project. The contractor, which will construct and maintain a 51.6-kilometre-long section of the R1 for 30 years, won the tender with a bid of €1.5 billion Join discussion...

The contract for construction of sections of the second package of motorways through public private partnership (PPP) projects was signed on March 23 by the Slovak Republic and the winning consortium of Vinci Concessions and ABN AMRO Highway, the TASR newswire reported. Join discussion...

SLOVAKIA, suffering from various impacts of the global economic downturn, sees public-private partnership (PPP) projects for highway construction as one of the tools to propel its slowing economy Join discussion...

The Transport Ministry has prepared an alternative plan for highway construction in Slovakia, financed directly from state coffers, in case of a failure of three public-private partnership (PPP) projects which are currently being tendered to build stretches of the D1 highway and R1 dual carriageway. Join discussion...

The ministry said its committee assessing the bids had picked Vinci's group over a consortium of Spain's Obrascon Huarte Lain with Czech firms OHL ZS and ZS BRNO. Join discussion...