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| Acciona Agua wins 120 million euro deal in Spain AndratxThe Andratx (Majorca, Spain) city council has awarded Acciona Agua a contract for the construction and exploitation (36 years) of the integrated water cycle services for ten residential developments in the municipality, with a reference population of 5,000 inhabitants. These works, the first of their kind in Spain to be awarded using the Competitive Dialogue procurement procedure, represent an investment of 120 million euros, which includes the total cost of the works in each residential area and the finance portfolio for the works. Work is scheduled to get under way in July 2009 and will be divided into zones that will be completed individually, enabling residents to access services gradually but in the shortest possible time. In the 1960s the Andratx local authorities began to develop one of the city's major tourist locations, the Port of Andratx, comprising a number of detached-housing residential developments, top-flight hotels, and apartments and restaurants, as well as the nearby Camp de Mar golf course. In order to attend to the growing needs of this urban development, in August 2008 the City Hall opened a public tender for the construction of the infrastructure for the services and their exploitation over a 36-year period. The unusual feature of this tender is that it applied the Competitive Dialogue procurement procedure, based on Spain's recently introduced Public Sector Contracting law (LCSP 30/2007). This is the first time that this new procedure has been used in a tender in Spain; there were nine bidders and the contract was finally awarded to Acciona Agua. write your comments about the article :: © 2009 Construction News :: home page |