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Article: EURO PROJECTS ROUND UP.
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- Public Private Finance
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- March 17, 2008
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The European Commission has launched new guidelines to increase transparency when setting up institutionalised public private partnerships (IPPPs). Only one tender is now needed, but no fresh projects can be awarded to the private partner during the partnership. Instead they must be advertised to provide "a fair and transparent procedure".
Road work continued across the continent, meanwhile, with Slovakia's transport ministry shortlisting two consortiums for the D1 Lietavska Lucka-Turany project. A Vinci/Skanska consortium and a group headed by Bouygues will now submit final bids for the E643m (#493m) scheme. The 30km pilot project includes 7.5km of tunnels ...