This morning the tender for the works for the adaptation of the plot and provision of services for the provisional installation of prefabricated modules for the new IES Les Salines and CEIP Oltà has been published on the state contracting platform.
The works include demolition, levelling and clearing of the land, earth moving, road construction, paving and asphalting, concrete structures, painting and road signs, planting and maintenance of green areas and street lighting. The tender has a budget of 3,265,378.18 € and a completion period of 4 months.
The Town Council ceded, for a period of five years, a municipal plot of more than 30.000m2 located just behind the Silene de Ifac Nursery School so that the Council can install prefabricated classrooms there for the pupils to de-massify the educational centres.
The development work will be carried out on two plots of land of around 6,900 metres each, which will house classrooms for an infant and primary school and classrooms for the second IES. In addition, access roads with pavements, a parking area and a landscaped green area will be built on a total surface area of 33,600 m2. Drinking water supply and sewage disposal will be provided by the municipal networks.
Once the work has been completed and the classrooms have been installed, the 160 students who started the course in the Casa de Cultura and the new enrolments will move to the new facilities.
Parallel to this process, the tendering process for the definitive works of the second Institute continues, with a base budget of 14,899,419.51€. The architects Pablo Peñín Llobell and Miguel San Juan, drew up the basic and execution project for the new institute in October 2023 and the construction project was approved in December 2023. Last July, the Public Procurement Platform announced the tender for the works contract, and in August the only bid submitted was opened, which is currently being studied. The government team believes that the works could be awarded by the end of 2024 and the works executed by the end of 2026.
The mayoress, Ana Sala, said that ‘we are very satisfied with the pace of the tenders in education, the various departments are making a great effort, for which I am grateful, and before the end of the year we will have everything awarded. This government team has worked very hard so far this year so that the educational emergency situation can be normalised, and we can start to talk about normality in educational infrastructures’.
For her part, the Councillor for Education, Mariola Mulet, declared that ‘our aim is to de-massify the schools and turn the educational situation around 180 degrees because here there has been no investment in education for a long time’.