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Vietnam Expressway Development Investment Corporation (VEC) has just sent a written request to a competent authority to propose to approve the policy of implementing the Yen Bai - Lao Cai Expansion Project of Noi Bai - Lao Cai Expressway in the form of emergency construction works. The 530m long mountain tunnel on Noi Bai-Lao Cai highway, at the border between Yen Bai and Lao Cai-Photo: Investment Newspaper proposed, VEC petitioned to allow the application of shortened bidding process as prescribed in Decree No. 24/2024/ND-CP, detailing a number of articles and measures to implement the Bidding Law on contractor selection. jobs, including: surveying, designing, making investment projects; Surveying, designing construction drawings and estimates; Selecting contractors, construction and other necessary tasks for the implementation of the project. The construction at the evaluation of the project in parallel with the process of appraising the environmental impact assessment report (EIA) and the items, the work part in the construction drawing design step. Influence.TInb of the Peoples Committee of the provinces and cities where the highway passed through was proposed to coordinate, support the arrangement and unifying the location of the Dumping ground, the material gathering yard, the composition of asphalt concrete and cement concrete mixing stations; At the same time, creating favorable conditions in the construction permit and procedures related to the material source, ensuring sufficient and timely supply for the project.VEC said that when the project is implemented in the form of emergency construction works, some specific mechanisms will allow immediately deploy the surveys, design, set up and verify the examination and examination reports, and the project appraisal is also approved for the project. With the project approval process. The construction drawings will be approved by each item or partially, allowing the implementation of the construction at the scene in the form of both designed and constructed. The specialized construction agency will conduct evaluation simultaneously during this process. Ensure the completion of the project in 2026 The selection of construction contractors will be conducted simultaneously with the construction drawing design, contributing to shortening the time of preparation of investment and speeding up the construction progress, ensuring the completion of the basic project in 2026.The plan, the project will start on August 19, the 80th anniversary of the national anniversary. 12/2026. Particularly, the tunnel item is expected to be put into operation from April 2027.VEC emphasized that if implemented in the form of emergency works and apply specific mechanisms, the investment preparation time will shorten about 3 months, the whole project will be completed about 4 months earlier than the normal investment plan. No. 50/2024/QH15, and applies a number of specific mechanisms to accelerate the process of preparation and investment. Noi Bai - Lao Cai Expressway has been invested and built and put into operation since 2014, in which, Noi Bai - Yen Bai section (Km0 - Km123+080) and the end segment (Km244+155 - Km262+815) has been invested with 4 lanes. Complete 4 lanes and 83 km of 2 -lane divergence, no hard median in the middle. 10 years of exploiting the road surface of the line from Yen Bai - Lao Cai has been degraded, the traffic on the route increases, leading to slow exploitation speed, not meeting the design speed (about 50km/h), potentially the risk of high traffic safety. With the current scale, this route will not guarantee the need for circulation and is expected to exceed the capacity by 2025. Phan Trang
