
The Albanian Investment Corporation announced that it has extended the deadline for expressions of interest from potential private partners who want to submit bids to develop projects on state properties.
On its official website, the Corporation announced that the first deadline set on January 6, 2025 has now been replaced with January 20, 2025. Two projects are currently in the process of expressing interest for partnership. The first is the sub-project “Construction and management of the Albanian Cadastre building” with the contract object “Development through entrepreneurship of LIFT Tower”.
"The Corporation, through this international public competitive procedure, aims to select the private partner, in the capacity of Entrepreneur for the development of the property for entrepreneurship, by realizing the architectural project-idea of ??the merger of the entities Baukuh Studio Associato & Muoto & Sam Chermayeff Office & Yellow Office & Bollinger Grohmann & Atmoslab & Simoj Boudvin & Arkimade," the Corporation's announcement states.
The documents made public state that in order to enable the development of the Albanian Cadastre building (public condition of property transfer) and so that public institutions can benefit from 34,000 m2 of construction with modern and quality parameters at no cost, ATP makes its property on “Muhamet Gjollesha” Street, near the Faculty of Civil Engineering, approximately 2,357.55 m2, available for development with the LIFT Tower building venture. This property has high economic value for the venture and is therefore of interest to develop.
The second sub-project for which private companies may express interest in entering into a partnership with the Corporation is the "Construction and Management of the Government Complex" with the contract object "Development through entrepreneurship of VOID Tower".
"The corporation, through this international public competitive procedure, aims to select the private partner, in the capacity of Entrepreneur for the development of the property for entrepreneurship, by realizing the architectural project-idea of ??the merger of the entities Andrea Kaputo & Focus Architecture & OpenFabric & James Beckett," the announcement states.
"With Decision VKM 328/2024, the Council of Ministers, with the act of transfer of several properties owned by the Corporation and several other properties with development rights, established as a condition for the transfer of the property the fulfillment of the needs of public institutions according to the terms of the cooperation agreements, terms which were the basis for opening the design competition of the design project-idea as part of this competitive procedure regarding the construction of the Government Complex in the urban area near the "Selman Stermasi" stadium on a plot of approximately 11,892 m2 and VOID Tower in the urban area on "Jean d'Arc" boulevard," it is stated in the Corporation's documents regarding the procedure.
In this context, the private sector will develop construction at the Civil Aviation and Delegations Park and at the same time construction on Jean d'Arc Boulevard.
The Albanian Investment Corporation has specified the conditions that companies that express interest in entering into a partnership agreement with the latter must meet, while underlining that the main aspect that gives companies an advantage is the higher percentage of the surface area offered on behalf of the state./ monitor