The received offers for participation in the open procedure for concession of "Intermodal Terminal in the South Central Planning Region in Bulgaria - Plovdiv" were opened in the presence of the Minister of Transport, Information Technology and Communications Ivaylo Moskovski. A proposal for participation from “Terminali” EAD was received.
The prospective operator will have the obligation to finance the maintenance, management and modernization of the site for a period of 27 years. The participant designated as a concessionaire must invest in the terminal at least BGN 4 687 600 without VAT for the entire period of the concession. Apart from this, the minimum fixed concession payment to the state is BGN 50 000 per year, as the amount will be indexed every three years according to the reported inflation. Once the concession contract entering to force, the participant will be obliged to make an additional one-time concession payment of BGN 5,000 without VAT, as well as to pay a percentage of the annual net incomes, which should not be less than 10%.
The estimated revenues for the state for the entire period of the concession are BGN 1 255 000 without VAT. The amount includes the minimum amount of the fixed annual concession payment (BGN 50 000 without VAT) and the one-time concession payment. The amount of the variable part of the annual concession payments is not included as they are of a prediction nature and depend on the financial results of the concessionaire for the respective year.
Intermodal terminal – Plovdiv is funded by OP Transport 2007-2013 and national co-funding. The site has a great strategic and economic significance in regional, national and European-wide aspects. The main purpose of the project is to achieve an improvement of the intermodality in the Southeast region of the European Union by creating conditions for optimal interaction and integration of the different modes of transport.
