Transportes awards more than 16 million euros a contract for the conservation of roads of the State in the province of Segovia

• The duration of the contract is three years, with the possibility of extension for another two years, and is part of the program of conservation and exploitation of the State Road Network. • It includes actions such as accident monitoring and attention, winter road, tunnel control and communications service or the maintenance of facilities. • New features are introduced in the specifications to promote the improvement of energy efficiency and the reduction of emissions of the activity of the General Directorate of Roads.

March 7, 2024.- The Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility has awarded 16.12 million euros (VAT included) a contract for the execution of various conservation and exploitation operations on state roads in the province of Segovia.

The duration of the contract is three years, with the possibility of a first extension of two years and an additional one of a maximum of nine months.

This contract, aimed at the maintenance and conservation of 159,134 km of roads, is part of the Ministry’s program to maintain traffic, road and safety conditions in the State Road Network, ensuring that it is accessible in the appropriate conditions to all citizens. Action will be taken on sector No. 1, which includes the following roads:

• N-6, from the kilometric point (pk) 49+080 to 110+540
• N-603, from pk 62+400 to 91+150
• N-601, from pk 108+700 to 135+610
• N-110, from pk 193+145 to 196+628
• N-110, from pk 197+636 ak 226+750
• N-110A, from pk 196+707 to 197+712
• N-110A, from pk 205+080 to 206+366
• N-110A, from pk 212+990 to 214+165
• N-601A, from pk 120+232 to 122+407
• AP-61 (collector), from pk 87+586 to 88+702
• N-603/AP-61, pk link 91+150
• N-6/A-6, pk link 109+600

Next to the related roads, the service areas and other functional elements or public services associated with them will be the subject of the contract, as well as the execution of the work of reordering the accesses of the N-6 road between the pk 64 and 64,800, in the periurban environment of San Rafael.

Conservation model characteristics

The model of mixed contracts (services and works) for the execution of conservation and exploitation operations 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: schedule of status information and programming, operating aid and road safety studies and maintenance of road elements with adequate levels of quality.

In addition, within the framework of the strategy of reducing emissions and improving energy efficiency, a series of innovations have been introduced in the specifications of these contracts:

• In 2022, 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 vehicles.
• Criteria relating to carbon footprint mitigation and compensation are included in contracts tendered after 2023. Thus, companies will be able to include as a punctuable improvement in their offers the presentation of a decarbonization plan with the purpose of reaching the carbon neutral balance within five years from the beginning of the contract. The compensation can be done through the absorption projects registered in the carbon footprint, compensation and carbon dioxide absorption projects of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge or through other options.

The aim is to reduce the 71,640 tonnes of CO2 per year generated by the regular operation and maintenance and operation of the State Road Network and to reinforce the orientation towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to which the Ministry is committed.