Bulgartransgaz EAD launched a public procurement award procedure in line with the PPA on the selection of a Contractor of the Feasibility study for the project for Interconnection Turkey – Bulgaria (ITB). The documentation has been made published on the company’s Internet site at „Buyer Profile – Public procurements/Public procurements award procedures.
The Feasibility study represents an initial and mandatory stage of ITB overall realization.
The main objective of the service to be awarded with this public procurement procedure is the preparation of a complex Feasibility study to allow the selection of the mist appropriate option for the realization of the gas Interconnection Turkey – Bulgaria. The service includes an in-depth study and assessment of the technical, financial, economic, environmental, market and social aspects of the project concerning the section on the Bulgarian territory.
The expected outcome is an overall study of ITB project’s feasibility and will include recommendations on the selection of a gas pipeline route, technical surveys, basic design and costs estimate, assessment and analysis of market needs, financial and economic feasibility, cost and benefit analysis, preliminary environment and social impact assessment, legal and regulatory feasibility, project development schedule, preliminary ToR FEED, risk assessment, etc.
Based on the outcome of the performed feasibility activities the final parameters of the project and the subsequent steps for the project’s implementation will be set.
The Feasibility study for project 7.4.2-0061-BG-S-M-14 „Interconnection Turkey – Bulgaria“ is part of the project of common interest 7.4.2. Interconnection Turkey-Bulgaria, which with decision of the European Commission of 21 November 2014 was selected to receive financial aid under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF-Energy). The total value of the study is expected to be EUR 380 000 of which the grant aid under CEF amounts up to EUR 190 000.
On 3 April 2015 Bulgartransgaz EAD has signed a Grant Agreement No.INEA/CEF/ENER/M2014/0014 for the implementation of a Feasibility study for the Interconnection Turkey-Bulgaria.
The Interconnection Turkey – Bulgaria (the ITB) is a project for the development of the interconnection of the gas transmission networks of Bulgartransgaz EAD, Bulgaria, and Botas, Turkey, to secure an opportunity for diversification of the sources of natural gas, the supplying partners and the routes thus increasing the security of supply to the region and boost the competition. The interconnection is one of the projects that will contribute to the realization of the priority Southern gas corridor, providing for infrastructure to transport gas from the Caspian basin, Central Asia, the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean basin to the EU to increase the diversification of gas supply.
More information on the project „7.4.2. Interconnection Turkey-Bulgaria” is available here
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