The Governing Council has given green light for the highway area to put out the ordinary exploitation service contract to public tender which includes the upkeep and maintenance of certain roads managed by the Council of Tenerife.
The First Vice President and Councilor for Highways, Enrique Arriaga, details that “24-hour service is guaranteed, 365 days a year. of the roads covered by the contract by specialized teams, capable of acting immediately in road operations, which are always a priority and in which the time factor is essential to offer the best service to road users”.
Arriaga points out that “the contract has a budget of 85,849,224 euros, which is a considerable increase since the previous ones did not reach 27 million for a total of 582.92 kilometers”.
“Now it will encompass a total of 826.65 kilometers of those roads on the island that, due to their special characteristics, require high levels of attention, being divided into five zones called Center, North, West, South and Anaga, where, in addition, each one of the zones will constitute an independent lot, thus pretending facilitate access to small and medium-sized companies to participate in said tender “adds the counselor.
The insular director of Highways, Tomás Félix García, states that the successful bidders will have to carry out road activities to maintain the operability of the highways. Also conservation tasks to keep the roads in the best possible condition, to which must be added road improvement and defense activities aimed at regulating, controlling and defending the roads, for which a continuous surveillance system is promoted.
The tender will be divided into five lots that divide the island into the Center, North, West, South and Anaga zones.. The contract, with a budget of approximately 86 million euros, taxes included, will have an initial duration of five years.
