Environmental Groups Challenge Tender Criteria for Slovakia's Major Tar Pit Cleanup Project

The Environmental Sanitation Association (Envisan), which represents remediation companies, has raised concerns about the tender conditions for cleaning up tar pits in Predajná, a project valued at over 54 million euros excluding VAT. The association warns that the competition criteria are designed for specific purposes and are professionally unbalanced, failing to adequately exclude companies without real experience in environmental contamination remediation. The main issues identified include an overly economic approach to evaluating company turnover and unrealistic requirements for reference projects. Envisan argues these flawed criteria could allow inexperienced firms to participate in what is a complex environmental cleanup operation requiring specialized expertise.