New nuclear icebreaker tender announced, price 9% off
MOSCOW. Nov 5 (Interfax) - The Rosatom State Corporation has announced a tender for building two nuclear icebreakers of Project 22220, according to the SPARK Marketing network that publishes information about public procurement and acquisitions of state-owned companies.
The contract's starting price is 77.495 billion rubles. The delivery is due in 2019-2020.
Bids can be made through December 4, 2013, and the winner will be announced on December 5, 2013.
This is the third attempt to hold a tender for the construction of nuclear icebreakers. Atomflot, a component of Rosatom, was the ordering customer. It changed its mind in favor of a direct public procurement later (Atomflot General Director Vyacheslav Ruksha told Interfax about that option in late September).
The project cost 86 billion rubles when Atomflot was the customer.
In all, Atomflot wants to build three nuclear icebreakers.
Atomflot and LLC Baltiysky Zavod Shipbuilding signed the first icebreaker contract in August 2012 at a value of 37 billion rubles. It is planned to begin construction in November 2013 and to launch the hull of the vessel in November 2015. The shipyard is compelled to build the icebreaker before December 30, 2017, and to deliver it to the Atomflot pier in Murmansk.
Atomflot has a fleet of five nuclear icebreakers at present.