Great. Northern Macedonia moves to build Skopje highway Kosovo opens nearly 200 million tender

Northern Macedonia is aiming to use some of the revenue of a loan from the European Bank-administered Grant for Reconstruction and Development ERZH for the cost of the long-awaited project, especially on our part (Kosovare) for the construction of the Skopje-Pristina highway.

According to the tender file he saw. Periscope, Project to be co-financed by an investment grant of 20.8m euros. provided by the European Union through the Western Balkans Investment Framework (WBIF).

The remaining 2km section from the Blace Cross to the Blace Border Cross crossing with the Republic of Kosovo is financed by the Macedonian government's budget and is currently under construction.

Project to fund construction of a new 10km-long highway subsection T En-T Route 6 ranging from Skopje (Senkovec cross) to Crossing Blace, near the Kosovo border.

The projected total value of the project is 186,700,000 euros.

The Macedonian government has initially made preliminary announcements of EURZH's procurement site bid, as even the tender will be realised on the basis of the bank's procurement policies, It says Periscope.

The projected date for the start of procurement is 17,10,2022 and companies from Kosovo, which are already present in infrastructure projects in northern Macedonia, can also participate.

“Procuring under this project will be carried out using the E-Procureed EURZH Client (ECEPP) portal. If you intend to be involved in any procurement under this project, please make sure you are stored in E CEPP ( https://cepp.ebrd.com). The registered subjects will be announced directly when procurement opportunities” are published, said the preliminary announcement of this tender.

Northern Macedonia has Kosovo's main partner in doing business. Kosovo Customs Statistics show this neighbouring state imported goods to Kosovo in July at a value of 15,777,122.68 euros.

In fact, even Kosovo has a serious partner to do business, neighbouring Macedonia and expert goods mostly from all Balkan countries there. In July, Kosovars sent goods to a value 6,990,221.14 euros.

The government of Kosovo, in recent years, has oriented a large portion of capital investments in the construction of two major roads (autostradas), the construction of the 7th Street (Merdare ʹ Morina) and the 6th Street (Pristina Han of Elez).

Building these two roads, in addition to connecting Kosovo/Pristina with Albania/Tirana and Macedonia/ Skopje, respectively, actually included Kosovo as part of the main Southeast European transport network. /Periscopi/