Water for strategic investors, a 4.2 million euro contract is signed for the new project

2024-07-24 07:46:00, Aktualitet CNA

Water for strategic investors, a 4.2 million euro contract is signed for the new

The National Water and Sewerage Agency (AKUK) announced in the procurement system that it has concluded a contract with the winner who will implement the project for the water supply of the coastal areas, the Draleos, Drimadhes and Dhërmi Strategic Investment Zones, of the Himarë Municipality, Phase II.

The Gjoka Konstruksion company, which was also the winner of the procedure, will implement the project worth about 4.2 million euros including VAT. Earlier, the procedure was opened for a value of ALL 372 million as a limit fund for which the company made an offer that was 95.3 percent of this fund, where it was also the winner.

The tender was opened in April by AKUM and the second procedure was a continuation of the one opened at the end of 2023, where in the first phase, the limit fund estimated at that time was 743 million ALL, or more than 7 million euros.

According to the documents that accompany the project, it includes the entire area announced through the Decision of the National Council of the Territory No. 2, Date 16.10.2017 "Area of ??strategic investments in places of national importance for the development of tourism" Draleos-Drimadhes-Dhermi, listing the projects from Palasa to Dhërmi.

The document also makes an assessment of the resources that these areas currently have. Earlier, the same calculations indicated that a water supply capacity of no less than 290 l/s would be required to cope with the influx of tourists.

"The request is to provide a quantity of no less than 290 l/s, which will be used to supply water to the new tourist complexes in the village of Palas through a new water supply system. The amount of 290 l/s is predicted for the peak of tourists during the hot season of the year, where in addition to an amount of 150 l/s per resident, a much larger amount of water is needed.

This amount consists in the overpopulation of the area, especially along the coastline. A tourist normally takes 30% more water than usual.

If we also add the amount of water for the needs of public tourist services, the expectation for the expansion, or the construction of other tourist complexes, then the rate per tourist goes over 250 l/s; so the necessary and required amount of 290 l/s is more than argued. We also take into account the losses in the network calculated at no less than 20-30%", it is stated in the technical-hydrological report of the project.

Strategies of tourist villages

Over the years, the government, through the Strategic Investments Committee, has granted status to a number of investments that, although designed as tourist complexes, in a good part of the cases have ended up in residential villa complexes.

By benefiting from the status, investors gain ease both in obtaining land and in easing bureaucratic procedures, but also in investments related to infrastructure and access to energy and water, something that is also being applied in this case./Monitor