The deadline to submit offers is next December 18 at 2:00 p.m.
In order to expedite all the procedures and have the works begin at the beginning of the year, the Consortium already has the construction license, which it requested from the City Council last September
The works for the first phase of the multifunctional building that Zona Franca de Cádiz promotes in Arcos de la Frontera will be able to begin at the beginning of the year once the Consortium has announced the public tender for them, after approval by its governing body, the Executive Committee, in its last session.
Specifically, the announcement was sent yesterday, Monday, by the Free Trade Zone to the Official State Gazette (BOE). –where its publication is scheduled for tomorrow, Wednesday - and to the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU), with the aim of contracting the works necessary for the execution of Phase I of the “Basic project and execution of a Multifunctional building on plot C-1 of the “El Peral” industrial estate” Border Arches. Cadiz”
These works, financed by funds requested in the Framework of the FEDER Operational Program of Andalusia 2007-2013, have a base bidding budget of 2,700,163 euros (VAT not included) and a deadline for submitting offers until December 18, at 2:00 p.m.
Once the offers are received, the qualification process will proceed, following the requirements demanded in the specifications. The opening of technical offers is scheduled for December 26, at 12:00 p.m., information about which will be made available in a timely manner through the Contractor's Profile on the website www.zonafrancacadiz.com. The works have an execution period of one year, considering the reduction of this time to ten months.
In order to reach this moment in which the works have been put out to tender, the Consortium has been working for more than a year to expedite all the necessary procedures that make it possible for this project, so important to reactivate and consolidate the business fabric of the municipality, to see the light. Thus, along these lines, the Cádiz Institution presented the corresponding construction license for the first phase of the Building at the Arcense City Council in September. –already granted by the Consistory -, a step that was prior and essential to proceed with the bidding for them.
Likewise, in 2013, Zona Franca awarded architect Adán Bolaños Baena the drafting of the project for an amount of 119,486.80 euros (VAT not included), a project that has subsequently been supervised by the technicians of the Cádiz Consortium.
The building, in two phases
The action of Zona Franca in Arcos contemplates the construction in two phases of a large administrative-commercial facility that will be located on a 2,908 m plot² where a modern building equipped with the latest technologies will be built and will house a new Free Trade Zone Business Center.
The first phase, whose works are put out to tender, will be approximately 3,280 m² built and in which 1,181 m² will be parking, 987 m² of commercial premises on the ground floor and 1,112 m² of offices.
In a second phase, construction will reach 4,947 m² approximately and its execution will begin once the first one is marketed. At this point, the Special State Delegate in the Free Trade Zone Consortium, Jorge Ramos, plans to meet with the mayor of Arcos, José Luis Núñez, to coordinate with the City Council in the process of marketing the property.
The building will have all the advantages that Zona Franca makes available to businessmen and liberal professionals to facilitate the implementation of their businesses and projects, such as high technology, common secretarial services, rental of classrooms and furniture, among others, offering new spaces for entrepreneurs in a professional environment and with services that will increase the competitiveness of their businesses.
This equipment comes to light after months of intense work and close institutional collaboration. It is worth remembering that Jorge Ramos and José Luis Núñez ratified at the end of 2012 the agreement through which the Consortium recovered this project, an old commitment with Arcos, which was acquired by the previous delegate during the last legislature, in 2009, and which was never carried out.