Constrained by social distancing due to the coronavirus, Norwegian officials are embarking on complicated long-distance negotiations with international companies for the country’s largest-ever highway contract—a public-private partnership to finance, design, build and operate the Rv. 555 for 25 years.
随着来自西班牙，意大利，法国，韩国和瑞士的预先资格投标人，语言和文化差异将进一步使1亿美元的RV的采购变得复杂。卑尔根以西的Storavatnet和Kolltveit之间的555高速公路。
The Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA) late last month shortlisted three of four bidding teams for the 9-km project, which includes a new 954-m-long, four-lane suspension bridge with a 592-m main span, located close to an existing Sorta suspension bridge. Nearly 40 other structures and 11 km of tunnels are included.
A period of intense negotiations has begun, which will lead to commercial-bid submissions this December. Because of the coronavirus, meetings will be held remotely. “I’ve not done this before,” says NPRA’s project manager Arve Tjønn Rinde.
尽管如此，NPRA还是在本月和下一个竞标团队的澄清会议上列出了约会。林德说：“其中一些会议将持续两天。”每次会议都有近60人参加，有关如何管理它们以及要使用的数字平台的详细信息尚未达成共识。
林德说：“语言，文化和数字障碍将对对话会议的工作产生影响。”他说，他会错过与谈判合作伙伴的面对面交流，但在线会议可能是“有效的工作方式”。
The project manager’s optimism is not universally shared among the private financing community, according to Julia Kennedy, an adviser at the European Investment Bank’s P3 expertise center. “There is…uncertainty about the ability to close deals in the near future,” she warns in a blog.
“We’re hearing examples of projects that are valiantly going ahead with multiparty negotiation meetings as best they can over video conferencing…. The majority…are likely to face some kind of delay or change,” she writes.
但是，总的来说，竞标者将渴望确保“合同清楚地表明大流行病或此类紧急情况的高风险和责任是如何处理的，”肯尼迪说。“当然，Covid-19和Pandemics的话题现在被牢牢地放在桌面上进行讨论，然后再准备签署这笔交易。”
在挪威项目中，林德（Rinde）期望冠状病毒在计划的会议中发挥作用。例如，投标人“将为我们提供有关他们如何以安全的方式进行项目的信息。他们会竞标这一点。”他说。
Meetings with contactors and their advisers will continue after December’s bids and before a contract is awarded in July 2021. Rinde expects construction to last up to three years, but that will depend upon schedules set by the successful bidder.
三支球队进入了入围名单，而包括中国通讯建筑公司在内的中国/土耳其集团被淘汰。入围名单包括：
- Sotra link (FCC Construcción S.A., Webuild [formerly Salini Impregilo S.p.A.] SK Engineering & Construction Co. Ltd. and Macquarie Corporate Holdings Pty. Ltd.)
- ITIAS (ITINERA S.p.A., IHI Corporation and ASTM S.p.A.)
- Via Sotra (VINCI Concessions S.A.S., VINCI Highways S.A.S., Acciona Concesiones S.L. and Implenia Switzerland Ltd.).
房车。555项目是政府在2018年允许的三个高速公路P3之一。2003年在E39的Klett驾驶挪威高速公路P3采购后，NPRA在三年内又签订了两份合同。这些是从那以后的第一个P3。
在2018年允许的三个P3中，Skanska基础设施开发赢得了第一个。25公里，5.4亿美元的RV。3/RV。奥斯陆 - 特朗德海姆走廊上的25个链接将于今年完成。
To help finance the deal, Skanska and an affiliated pension fund each invested half of the $12.7 million equity and subordinated debt. Skanska last December sold its half to another affiliated fund.
第三个P3估计为7亿美元，仍在计划中，其中将包括E10/RV的近80公里。85在挪威北部的Sortland，Harstad和Fients之间的路线。
