This Friday, February 4, the tender for the construction of the subway of the 80, the most important mobility project that the capital of Antioquia currently has.
The announcement was made this morning, Monday, January 31, by both the Medellin’s town hall such as the Metro, which said that said tender will be open with something called a “glass ballot box” to receive offers for a period of three months.
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“The metro will contract through its own contracting statute, who is going to contract here is the Medellín metro, just as we have done in the Picacho cable metro and the Ayacucho tramway,” said Tomás Elejalde, manager of the Metro. .
Elejalde added that there are already at least 18 national and international companies interested in this project, since the draft terms of reference had been published since October 2021.
The mayor of Medellin, Daniel Quintero, celebrated this step so that the city has another metro line, which will pass through the western side of the capital of Antioquia.
“This is a project of more than 13 kilometers of works that will generate 6,000 jobs, 17 stations, which will impact a million citizens of Medellin but will impact the entire metropolitan area and will become a decongestion channel of the main line”, affirmed the local president.
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The cost of the project amounts to $3.54 billion, of which the Nation will contribute $2.47 billion (70%) and the Municipality the remaining $1.062 billion.
Courtesy of the Mayor’s Office of Medellin
Quintero specified that this metro will influence 32 neighborhoods in Medellin that will have access to mobility with at least 20 electric cars.
On the other hand, Sergio López, director of Planning of the municipality, clarified that the contract that will be awarded for 1.7 billion pesos.
“This contract has three very important components: civil works, rolling stock and phase 3 design. The contractor or group of contractors that wins will be responsible for making us a turnkey contract. That is to say, they have the responsibility to answer for the three issues and they are co-responsible for making sure that all three go well,” López said.
The mayor’s office expects a mixture of conglomerates of national and international companies to arrive for this selection, including train manufacturing and engineering companies.
The official clarified that there are already two signed contracts related to the project. The first is property management between the Medellín Metro company and the EDU of 900 billion pesos and has already started. There is also another with EPM for the design and redistribution of dry and wet networks throughout the 80 corridor.
Under this panorama, this project advances on which adaptations of road extensions are already being made and with which efforts are also made in the purchase of land necessary for its construction.
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It should be remembered that the project has an estimated cost of 3.54 billion pesos, backed by the Nation in future terms of 6 years, with disbursements between 2024 and 2029 amounting to 2.47 billion pesos, and for part of Medellín through total disbursements of 1.06 billion pesos over 15 years from 2020 to 2034.
This mobility project will have 17 stations from the Caribe neighborhood, in the north, to the La Aguacatala sector, in the south of the city.
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