The tender for the billion-dollar Roberto Marinho Road Complex and Linear Park project, managed by the city of São Paulo, generates competition between the top three. The Expresso Roma consortium, formed by Odebrecht and Álya Construtora (formerly Queiroz Galvão), came first in the technical and commercial phase, but its competitors are trying to eliminate it.
The contractors presented the lowest price, of R$1.8 billion, with a 25% discount on the budgeted value of the works, of approximately R$2.4 billion.
Second place was taken by Consórcio Nova Roma, formed by Construbase, FM Rodrigues and Uranpres, which presented a proposal of R$1.9 billion, followed by Acciona, which proposed R$2 billion. All three had the same technical score, 92.5.
The deadline to contest the result expired last Thursday (4) and the three first-placed teams presented their arguments against their rivals. According to SP Obras, the city’s infrastructure secretariat, the department has already started analyzing resources and indicated that there is no deadline to complete this process.
In a note, the ministry said it carried out the analysis “in an impartial manner and based on legality and fairness between competitors.”
The project, one of the most important in the city of São Paulo, will allow the fastest connection between Avenida Roberto Marinho and Rodovia dos Imigrantes, and will create a linear park and various public facilities, in addition to a drainage system in the southern region of São Paulo.
Charges
Acciona requested the disqualification of Consórcio Expresso Roma for proposing changes modifying the initial project of the works, and requested the disqualification of Consórcio Nova Roma due to the lack of authorization to operate in Brazil from Uranpres, which is foreign.
The Nova Roma Consortium also requested the disqualification of the first-placed team due to suggestions for changes to the initial project, and of Acciona for presenting a generic timetable for the works.
The consortium formed by Odebrecht and Álya has, in turn, requested a reduction in the technical scores of the two competitors and an increase in its own proposal, because it considers it to be the best.
Tension
Even before the tender process, tensions reign behind the scenes between the competitors. Brazilian contractors interested in participating in the competition threatened to go to court because they believed the construction notice rules favored foreign companies. Acciona is Spanish.
The main drawback was the qualification requirements for the construction team. The initial notice gave more marks to the consortium or company that had a civil engineer with more than 20 years of experience in building a bridge or viaduct using the cable-stayed method.
The unease encountered by Brazilian contractors was due to Brazil’s lack of experience in this type of work, since the country’s first cable-stayed bridge was inaugurated between the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Under pressure from Brazilian companies, SP Obras made an errata which ended up modifying the text of this part of the notice.
According to the new wording, the technical note is now disconnected from experience in cable-stayed works and it is only obligatory that the engineer has carried out at least one work during his professional career using this method.
With this change, Consórcio Expresso Roma, in addition to presenting the lowest bid, obtained a sufficient technical score to rank first in the tender.
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