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[PR] Consortium for N1/M1 Dundalk Western Bypass PPP Scheme Announced

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  • 17-12-2003 12:51am
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    Victor
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    http://www.nra.ie/News/NewsAnnouncements/d1032.HTML.html
    Consortium for N1/M1 Dundalk Western Bypass PPP Scheme Announced

    NRA PPP ROADS PROGRAMME

    The Authority received Best and Final Offers from 2 consortia in relation to the Dundalk Western Bypass PPP Scheme. Following completion of an evaluation of the offers, the following consortium has been selected as Preferred Tenderer:

    Celtic Roads Group
    comprising NTR plc, Grupo Dragados S.A., HGB Ascon Ltd and Edmund Nuttall Ltd.

    The Authority now intends to proceed forward with this consortium with the objective of the award of this contract in January 2004 and the start of construction later in late Quarter One 2004.
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    Genghis
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    Where does this contract begin? Is the ongoing work at the end of the current M1 part of the original M1 contract? Where do the two meet up? That contract can't be for much more than 10km? And (final question!) does anyone know of any plans north of the border to connect with the M1 the other side?


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    Andrew Duffy
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    It connects the end of the M1 to the border, which is 11Km. However, the winning contractor has to maintain and operate another 42Km of motorway, as far as Gormanstown. There will be no toll gates on the new stretch of road; the existing tolls near the Boyne bridge will be the tolls for the entire 53Km.

    From the NRA:

    This is one of the projects announced by the NRA in June 2000 under Tranche II of the PPP Roads programme. This project lies on the N1/M1 Dublin - Border route and will involve the construction, operation and maintenance of an 11 km stretch of road forming part of the N1/M1 national primary route in the vicinity of the town of Dundalk, Co. Louth, together with approximately 8 km of associated side roads and tie-ins.

    The project to be procured will also include the operation and maintenance of existing motorway with an approximate length of 42 km i.e. the Dunleer Bypass and the Dunleer/Dundalk Motorway as well as the M1 (Gormanston to Monasterboice) scheme which opened on 9th June, 2003. The Gormanston to Monasterboice section of the M1 is tolled and the N1/M1 Dundalk Western Bypass project to be procured includes the operation of the tolling facilities.


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