March 27, 2024.- The Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility has awarded 4.97 million euros (VAT included) for a service contract to assess the resilience of the State Road Network (RCE) to hydrometeorological events and flood management, within the framework of the climate change adaptation plan that is being developed. This contract is funded by the European NextGenerationEU funds, within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan. The announcement will soon be published in the Official State Gazette (BOE).
The objective is to study the risks of hydrological origin in the State Road Network, as well as the development of instruments to improve flood management.
In road infrastructures, hydrological risks materialize in two types of conditions: the accumulation of water in the roadway that prevents circulation in safe conditions, leaving a section out of service, and the deterioration or failure of certain elements and structures of the network.
This service contract is divided into two lots:
- Análisis de riesgos de origen hidrológico en las carreteras de titularidad estatal e implementación de sistemas de alerta. It includes the CER’s flood study, with consideration of climate change, and is structured around a series of ‘Reference Flood Points’ (RIP), constituted by drainage or transit works, transversal to the road, with light of vain less than three meters.
Also included as PIR are those drainage or transit works whose light in vain is between three and ten meters that the contract address deems appropriate. These RIP include, in addition to the transversal drainage work itself or where they are located, adjacent stretches of road that may be affected by the floods.
- Development of technical guidelines to improve flood management. It seeks to achieve adequate coordination between the different agencies involved in flood management and, on the other hand, to define and structure the actions that must be carried out to avoid or minimize the affliction of such floods to the CER.
The contract therefore includes the development of the work and the preparation of the documents necessary for the future achievement of these objectives.
Job description
The works included in the contract will therefore be divided into the following two phases:
- Analysis of risks of hydrological origin in the CER and implementation of warning systems, which includes:
- The collection and analysis of existing information
- The development of the risk analysis methodology
- A hydrometeorological study
- The application of the risk analysis methodology
- The implementation of a hydrological warning system
- The design and implementation of a computer application
- Development of the pilot project
- The preparation of reports
- Training, manuals, forums
- Coordination with other agencies
- Development of technical guidelines to improve flood management, including:
- A guideline for the development of territorial coordination protocols
- Technical note of floodability
Contract in two lots
The contract has also been divided into two lots, grouped geographically as follows:
- Zone 1: Asturias, Extremadura, Galicia, Castilla y León, Madrid, Cantabria and La Rioja, with a budget of 2,531,591.63 euros (VAT included).
- Zone 2: Aragon, Andalusia, Catalonia, Valencia, Murcia and Castilla La Mancha, with a budget of 2,438,699.70 euros (VAT included).