Transportes licita for 24 million euros a contract for the conservation of roads of the State in the province of Soria

• The work, with an initial duration of 3 years, is part of the program of maintenance of the State Road Network to guarantee the conditions of circulation, road and safety. • It includes actions such as accident monitoring and attention, winter road, tunnel control and communications service or the maintenance of facilities. • Mitma introduces new features in the specifications to promote the improvement of energy efficiency and the reduction of emissions of the activity of the General Directorate of Roads.

December 19, 2023.- The Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility has litigated with a budget of 24 million euros (VAT included) a service contract for the execution of various conservation and exploitation operations on state roads in the province of Soria. The corresponding announcement will soon be published in the Official State Gazette (BOE).

The duration of this contract is 3 years, with the possibility of extension of 2 years and an additional one of a maximum of 9 months.

This contract includes requirements to promote energy efficiency and emission reduction and is part of the Ministry’s program to maintain traffic, road and safety conditions in the State Road Network (RCE), ensuring that it is accessible in the right conditions to all citizens.

This contract, intended for the maintenance and maintenance of 224 km of roads in sector 2, includes the A-11 motorway (from km 21 to 83,800) and several sections of roads of the N-110, N-122 and N-234.

Along with the related roads, the contract will cover the execution of the superficial and timely structural rehabilitation work of the firm on the N-234 road, between the km 352,940-354,300 and 370,500-379,100, stretch: Camaretas – Abejar.

What's new in the sheets

Thus, within the strategy of reducing emissions and improving energy efficiency, the Ministry has included objectives of mitigation and compensation of the carbon footprint in the tender documents of the conservation and exploitation contracts (COEX) of the State Road Network, which means that companies must include in their offers the calculation of the carbon footprint that they will generate during the execution of the contract in each stretch of the road.

They will also commit to presenting a decarbonization plan in the first six months of the contract with reduction and emissions compensation measures to achieve a carbon neutral balance within 5 years from the start of the contract. The compensation can be done through the absorption projects registered in the Carbon Footprint, Compensation and Carbon Dioxide Absorption Projects, under the Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, or through other options. This plan will also be included within the valuation criteria.

The aim is to reduce CO2 by 71,640 tons per year, which, according to calculations made by the General Directorate of Roads, generates the regular operation and maintenance and operation of the State Road Network and reinforces the orientation towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to which Mitma is committed.

Conservation model characteristics

The new model of mixed contracts (services and works) for the execution of conservation and exploitation operations in the State Road Network aims to offer a comprehensive service of mobility to the user, improve the state of the road and network and optimize public resources.

Through them, works are carried out to help the roads and ordinary conservation of the roads, to allow the infrastructure and its functional elements to have the best possible conditions of circulation and safety. It includes actions such as status information and programming agenda, operating aid and road safety studies and maintenance of road elements with adequate levels of quality.

Last year, energy efficiency measures were incorporated into service facilities, such as self-consumption, renewable heating systems, energy saving measures in lighting or the implementation of electric motor vehicles.