Valencia’s Ministry of Infrastructure has finally published the bidding process for the building of a new infant and Junior school to replace the portable cabin structure currently in use at the Colegio Playas de Orihuela.
The building will cost more than 6.63 million euro with a completion time of just 18 months
The process, essentially applications to tender, was published in the Official Journal of the Valencian Region, the DOCV.
But interested parties will have to get their skates on as the deadline for the submission of tenders, or requests to participate, is 1500 hrs on 30th of June, by which time all documentation must be presented to the Department of Infrastructure.
So after over 13 years in temporary accommodation, by far the longest in the whole of the Valencian region, and after many years of public demonstrations by teachers, parents and members of the public, it now looks as though the new school could soon become a reality.
A spokesman said that for the opening of tenders it is expected that the technical documentation will be examined on July 8 at 12:30 and the economic documentation on July 30 also at 12.30.
It was only 5 weeks ago that the Governing Board of the Orihuela Council approved the transfer of the building plot for the new junior school from council to regional ownership.
The plot is thought to be the area of land adjacent to the Los Dolses Commercial centre, just across the road from the current school and presently being used as an overspill car park.
Despite the delay, it will draw a close one of the longest standing school disputes in the area after children have been taught in the temporary accommodation for the last 13 years.
Spokesperson for the School Parent Teachers Association, Yolanda Fernandez Martinez, said “The Board of APA Playas de Orihuela want to thank everyone for the support they have shown with this struggle, Monday after Monday, year after year, that has taken us five years to get to this stage of tender. Many thanks on behalf of all the parents and students of the school. We are very grateful.”
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