Current project status: Development of PPP procurement documentation
Project contact persons: Kristīne Apsalone VSIA “Latvian State Roads”, kristine.apsalone@lvceli.lv
Published: 10.03.2026.
- Project goal: Construction of the Bauska bypass.
- Public partner: Ministry of Transport, VSIA “Latvian State Roads”.
- PPP model: Design, build, finance, maintain (DBFM).
- CAPEX: 114.9 MEUR excluding VAT (in 2022 prices).
- Project accounting: Off-balance sheet project.
- Term: 23 years (3 years construction + 20 years maintenance).
- PPP contract start date: Provisionally June 2028.
- Construction work completed, object available: Provisionally 2030/2031.
- PPP contract end date: Provisionally 2050/2051.
- PPP contract price: Approximately EUR 263,306,000 - 290,726,000* (excluding VAT). *Due to the impact and proximity of the Rail Baltica project, technical solutions may change, potentially affecting the project's capital investments.
- Availability payment per year: Provisionally 13.1-14.5 MEUR.
- PPP procurement: Competitive procedure with negotiations in two stages (qualification, submission of bids).
- Availability of the object: Provisionally 2030/2031
- Financial close and PPP contract signing: Provisionally 2028 (June).
- Eurostat assessment: Provisionally end of 2027.
- Winner's in-depth investigation by investors (due diligence): Tentatively autumn 2027.
- Year of the Cabinet decision on concluding the PPP contract after the tender: Provisionally autumn 2027.
- Development and coordination of procurement documentation with CFLA: Provisionally December 2025.
- Second Investor Days: The second Information Day for potential partners of the Bauska bypass PPP project will be held (14.11.2025.)
- First investor days: More than 60 representatives of potential private partners participated in the Bauska bypass PPP Information Day (11.06.2025.)
- Procurement of financial and legal consultancy for the management of the PPP contract: The contract was concluded on 17.02.2025. The winner is SIA “Deloitte Latvia”. EIS
- Cabinet of Ministers order on the initiation of the procurement procedure: 14.06.2024. No. 469 “On the initiation of the public-private partnership procedure for the first phase of the reconstruction project "Bauskas bypass" of the section of the state main road A7 Riga Bauskas-Lithuanian border (Grenctāle) from the Ķekava bypass to Bauska (Ārce), the alienation of real estate for the second phase of the project "Iecava bypass" and the determination of the status of an object of national interest for the infrastructure of the Bauska bypass and Iecava bypass”.
- FEA agreed: 22.12.2022. (CFLA); 30.12.2022. (FM).
- FEA procurement: announced on 17.02.2022 - EIS .
02.06.2022. contract signed, FEA developer SIA “Deloitte Latvia”
- Decision on the development of the FEA: 10.08.2021. (Cabinet of Ministers) FEA preparation decisions.