The Island Government Council has given the green light for the Roads area to put out to public tender the ordinary exploitation service contract that includes the conservation and maintenance of certain Tenerife roads managed by the council.
The first vice-president and councilor for Highways, Enrique Arriaga, explained that “24-hour service, 365 days a year, is guaranteed for the roads covered by the contract by specialized teams, capable of acting immediately in road operations, which are always priority and in which the time factor is essential to offer the best service to road users”.
Arriaga stressed that the contract, which will have an initial duration of five years, “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 cover 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 areas will constitute an independent lot, thus intending to facilitate access to small and medium-sized companies to participate in said tender” added the counselor.
The insular director of Highways, Tomás Félix García, explained 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 we must add road improvement and defense activities aimed at regulating, controlling and defending the roads, for which a continuous surveillance system is promoted.
