Rehabilitation and Construction of Municipal Water and Sanitation Infrastructure: Tender Documents and Procurement Assistance for Investments in , , , Plav, , and .

Partners: Montenegro, intent on redeveloping its are currently in operation or under • Ministry of Finance tourist potential, has embarked on an construction and the WBIF support to and PROCON ambitious programme of improving its the programme, including in other water and wastewater systems. This , has continued with Estimated total project concerns the construction of additional grants. investment: water and wastewater systems in six • €140.2 million medium municipalities in Montenegro - Results: Bijelo Polje, Cetinje, Berane, Plav, • Tender documentation and EU technical Ulcinj, and Andrijevica. The support during tendering for: 4 assistance: investments will benefit approximately wastewater treatment plants (in • €0.7 and 0.08 million1 200,000 people, who will have access Berane, Cetinje, Bijelo Polje and to better water supply and wastewater Plav); 4 sewerage networks (in Duration of Technical facilities and who will thus be living in a Berane, Cetinje, Plav and Ulcinj); Assistance: safer environment. Moreover, the new and 2 water networks (in Berane • August 2013 – August investments will help the local citizens and Andrijevica). 2018 better capitalize on the tourist, • Adequate collection and treatment agricultural and industrial potential of of sewage produced before being Lead IFI: the region. discharged into the neighbouring • EIB rivers; The grant provided by the WBIF helped • Reduction in drinking water review the existing designs and prepare Other EU / WBIF resources pollution the tender dossiers for proposed assistance: • Continuous water supply through investments in the six municipalities. It • €8.5million (technical the protection of drinking water has also covered general technical assistance and resources and upgrades of the assistance to the partner/beneficiary construction works) existing water distribution during procurement. The investments networks.

Technical Assistance provided by: • Infrastructure Project Facility 3 (Mott MacDonald – WYG – Atkins IPF Consortium)

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1 Grant reference number: WB7-MNE-ENV-24 & WB15-MNE-ENV-01 www.wbif.eu