According to the document published on the official web-page of the State Procumbent Agency, tender on the construction of Mtatsminda-Rustaveli ropeway failed for the second time. The tender was announced in December of the last year.
The construction of a ropeway from Rustaveli Avenue to Mtatsminda Park was estimated at 7,374,362 GEL. The candidate of the tender was "Caucasus Road Project". However, the tender commission disqualified the company due to a lack of relevant experience.
The tender on Rustaveli-Mtatsminda ropeway was already announced last November and it failed.
7,374,362 million GEL is not a major expenditure of the ropeway construction. According to the agreement published on the web-page of the State Procumbent Agency, Georgian Transport Company will pay 1.85 million EUR in addition to DOPPELMAYR for other engineering works.
Initial agreement on the implantation of Mtatsminda-Rustaveli Ropeway project was signed in June, 2012, but since then its technical parameters changed several times.
Project delay is largely due to the change of ropeway stop. Originally, the ropeway station must be placed near the Radisson Hotel, later in 2016 the decision has changed and the building of Academy of Sciences has been determined as the ropeway station.
