Tender for rehabilitation of National Theatre, overturned in court

The fight over the 48 million-euro contract to rehabilitate the National Theatre in Bucharest remains open after the Bucharest Court of Law decided to "overturn the decision" to award the contract to Aedificia Carpaţi and to "resume the tender process" at the request of Rotary Construcţii, which challenged the decision as early as spring.

The Project Management Unit (UMP), the institution in charge of organising investment tenders within the Culture Ministry, awarded the contract to Aedificia in the spring of this year following an electronic tender where it was the sole bidder, following the disqualification of the remaining nine companies and consortiums that submitted bids. Several companies later challenged the decision.
"We filed an appeal today (yesterday i.e.) with the Court of Appeals and we are hoping to get a court date as soon as possible, and receive a favourable decision within a month, because we brought this case before the National Council for Solving Complaints (CNSC) and won," Bogdan Trâmbaciu, head of UMP told ZF.