Azerbaijan, Baku, Sept.2. / Trend U. Ismayilova /
The tender commission from the Azerbaijani Committee on Architecture and Town Building has begun to unseal the tender bids for the development of the Regional Development Program of Greater Baku, Jahangir Gojayev, Head of the Committee's Department on International Relations and Information, said on Sept.2.
The commission has unsealed the envelopes with the proposals, Gojayev added.
According to Gojayev, the tender commission believes that selecting the winner will take several days, because the bids were attractive and varied.
The tender commission is still examining the technical proposals, while the financial proposals have not yet been unsealed, Gojayev added.
The committee received applications from 34 companies from 21 countries to take part in the tender and it is admitting six groups of companies to participate in the tender:
AS & P Albert Speer & Partners GmbH (Germany);
Moshe Zur Architects Town Planners Ltd., Marmanet organization & Projects, Management International Ltd., Geoda Geographical Data, Landed Property, Mapping and Surveying Ltd. (Israel);
EDAW, AECOM (U.S.);
HOK (Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum) Inc., Development Planning Unit, (England), Shaw Consultants International (U.S.), Scott Wilson (Az. Office) (England);
GHK Consulting (United Kingdom), International Land System Inc. (U.S.), Synergetics Ltd. (Azerbaijan);
Urban Solutions (The Netherlands), Hansen Partnership (Australia), Baku State Design Institute (Azerbaijan).
The tender procedure is carried out with the support of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (a member of the World Bank group).
Under the conditions of tender, the plan will be developed over two years.
"The plan is called Greater Baku, as the previous plan for Baku only covered graphic standards for 22,000 hectares of the territory of the capital city. The real area of Baku totals 219,000 hectares," Gojayev said earlier.
The last major plan for Baku was adopted in 1987. Meanwhile, the Azerbaijani government, through the Azerbaijani Committee on Architecture and Town Building and with loans from the World Bank, has completed the project on drafting a regional development program for Greater Baku. The project includes the prospective development for Baku, Sumgayit and the Absheron region as a whole in the subsequent 20 years. Similar projects have been implemented in some countries of Eastern Europe. However, none of them covered the capital along with its suburbs, which has a population of over 3 million people. The project will involve new technology, such as the use of a geographic information system.
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