22nd Dec 2022 is the retender submission deadline
Ah feck, at that rate it'll be summer 2023 before this restarts construction.
Michael Ring basically confirming the above:
Dunkettle took about a year for retender, its fairly standard sadly.
Piece from this weeks Western People. Delay could be up to two years, but hoping it will be just a year.
My kids hope that Santa will come twice a year but we all know he comes once at most.
The article isn't very clear but when they say 2 years, they seem to mean from when Roadbridge went bust which was around Jan 2022. So a 2-year delay would have construction starting in Jan 2024, not October 2024.
So any sign of this kicking off?
Had a google there a few days ago, don't see anything.
Should be clear when TII's allocations for 2023 are published imminently.
This is the most recent update I could find, from last month.
I'd say June isn't too bad an estimate. When Dunkettle had to be retendered it was about a year from "oops we have to retender" to shovels in the ground.
June would be about 16 months though.
Not to put up a post that adds nothing other than questions but...
Now that the Mayo N5 is largely complete, is there a sign of this to get going.
Googled it recently, didn't find anything.
The hold up had nothing to do with the N5 Westport - Turlough project so the completion of that project wont make a difference to Ballaghaderreen - Scramoge.
True of course but it will open the conversation about finishing this Cumberland gap further
No but the contractor for Westport - Turlough has all of the equipment and labour in the region, possibly allowing the best priced tender if they bid on it.
So it’s now over 13 months since the retender was announced, and 6 months since the retender deadline. I’d have been hoping that white smoke should be emerging at this stage even if only rumours of progress.
I heard that BAM and Wills put a join bid for the tender, and that BAM pulled out of the bid 3 day's before the deadline for some reason so that probably pushed the timeframe back a bit
That wouldn't make any difference to the tender return date, if it is true. Wills could either submit a bid themselves or not bid at all but the tender process wouldn't be changed to accommodate them.
Unless there wasn't any other bid. Seems a bit unlikely though.
But the contracting authority wouldn't know that in advance of the tender deadline and if they did, it would be a very questionable tender process where there was only one bidder and then they were facilitated by extending the deadline.
siac/ colas had a joint venture tender in also.
Any word on when this is going to start ,
I have heard that it should be starting towards the end of the year as wills bro's ect get off the Westport section but I could be wrong .
It was approved and signed off on last Wednesday by the Minister for Transport.
Do you mean, the winning tender was approved?
Really? No announcement at the time?
https://www.tii.ie/
Our lovely M for T would never make a big fuss out of signing off on a road project. I bet he felt sick signing it!
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