Garda Uno Sewer Contracts Awarded for €7B, 16 Municipalities Involved
All the bureaucratic procedures related to the awarding of the contracts for the 16 lots involved in the construction of numerous sewer network sections have been completed in recent days. The contract involved most of the municipalities within the Garda Uno Special Agency, with a total base bid of over 7 billion euros.
80 companies participated in the tender. Nine Brescia-based companies were awarded 12 lots out of the 16 contracted. The most substantial project, both in terms of expenditure and time frame, concerns the installation of sewers in the municipalities of Limone and Tremosine, with a base amount of 3,500,000,000 euros and a work period of 510 days.
Most limited interventions and official statements
The project requiring the least effort involves the municipality of Sirmione, with a amount of 82,765,601 euros and a deadline of 90 days. “Natural and consecutive days starting from the date of delivery of the official handover report,” recalls Franco Richetti, General Director of the Garda Uno Special Agency.
With this significant series of interventions, many long-standing issues are expected to be resolved, awaiting the necessary financial resources to meet the demands of various projects.
Of course, with this last allotment, the entire sewer collector network will not be fully completed yet. This is also because new and ongoing needs continue to emerge both in the Garda area municipalities involved and with the inclusion of new entities into the Consorzio, which will necessarily request connection to the primary sewer collection network.
Official statements from the president
Guido Maruelli, president of the Garda Uno Special Agency, stated: “As long as expansion, new structures, and new settlements occur in the various municipalities, the sewer collection work will never be finished.”
Referring to the recent contracts, Maruelli expressed particular satisfaction especially for “the fact that we fragmented the intervention into small lots, municipality by municipality, allowing all our ‘members’ to benefit from quicker delivery of works as well as faster completion.”
This approach was also driven by the need to minimize disruptions for residents and tourism, industries on which the economy of nearly all our member municipalities depends. “Sixteen construction sites, which we will monitor very closely and most of which will complete their interventions by next summer,” he concluded.
