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photo courtesy of gub.uy<\/p>\nThe Administrative Commission of the River Plate (CARP) and Jan De Nul have signed a contract for\u00a0the dredging operations, maintenance, widening and potential improvement works on the Mart\u00edn Garc\u00eda Channel. <\/p>\n
photo courtesy of gub.uy<\/p>\n
According to CARP, the contract will be valid for five years, with the option to extend it for an additional five-year period, and will allow for the maintenance of the channel\u2019s navigability, as well as the execution of works aimed at expanding its operational capacity.<\/p>\n
The signing of this deal marks the conclusion of the bidding process and enables the start of a new phase of work that, in addition to maintenance dredging, includes widening the channel and the possibility of incorporating future improvements of the waterway, CARP said.<\/p>\n
Background<\/p>\n
On June 12, the Technical Evaluation stage of the Tender was concluded, which ensures the navigability conditions and the development of strategic improvements for the waterway, and provides for a contractual term of five years, with an option to extend for another five additional years.<\/p>\n
At that stage, through CARP Resolution No. 14\/26, Jan De Nul and Boskalis International Uruguay S.A. were declared Qualified Bidders.<\/p>\n
A couple of weeks after, the Economic Offers of both companies were opened for the execution of the contract for an initial term of 5 years, resulting in:<\/p>\n
Offer No. 1 \u2013 Jan De Nul \u2013 in the amount of $65.994.000, and
\nOffer No. 3 \u2013 Boskalis International Uruguay S.A. \u2013 in the amount of $149.279.315.<\/p>\n
As a result of the aforementioned process, CARP issued Resolution No. 17\/26, declaring the offer submitted by Jan De Nul to be the most advantageous.<\/p>\n
The Mart\u00edn Garc\u00eda Channel extends for about 106.5km from km 39 of the Common Zone Channel of the R\u00edo de la Plata to km 0 of the Uruguay River and is an important route for the foreign trade of Argentina and Uruguay.<\/p>\n
The waterway has a depth of 34 feet, equivalent to 10.36m, in soft bottoms, and 38 feet, equivalent to 11.58m, in hard bottoms. It was built as a single-lane canal for vessels of up to 245m in length and 32.6m in beam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Administrative Commission of the River Plate (CARP) and Jan De Nul have signed a contract for\u00a0the dredging…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,108814,4133,451,243703,340599,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-802391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-carp","tag-contract","tag-headlines","tag-jan-de-nul","tag-martin-garcia","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}