The Deputy Minister of Citizen Protection, Eleftherios Economou, and the Authorized Advisor of TAIPED, Panagiotis Stampoulidis, signed today, Tuesday, August 9, a Contract for the project of relocating the Korydallos detention center, in the presence of the Secretary General of Anti-Criminal Policy, Konstantinos Papathanasiou, and executives of TAIPED.
The Agreement provides that TAIPED will undertake to carry out all the actions for the maturation of the project, carrying out the process of its assignment, on behalf of the Ministry of Citizen Protection, to a contractor financial body that will be selected in accordance with the existing legislation, as and the monitoring of the execution of the contract that will be concluded between the Ministry of Citizen Protection and the contractor for the implementation of the project.
The project is planned to be implemented using the Public Private Partnership (PPP) method. The initial budget for the construction of the new Penitentiary amounts to 130 million euros excluding VAT and is estimated to only concern the initially pre-estimated construction costs of the facilities, without including equipment, operation and maintenance costs.
According to the original planning, the new building facilities will be developed on an area of approximately 100 acres and will include 14 wings, with a capacity of 200 people each. They will also include hospital infrastructure, a psychiatric ward, therapeutic program areas, courtrooms, school education wards, a gymnasium, a library, disciplinary cells, laboratories, while there is also provision for places of worship.
The relocation of the Korydallos detention center has been approved by the Government Committee for Contracts of Strategic Importance with the decision of December 27, 2021 and has been included in the Development Program for Contracts of Strategic Importance of Law 4799/2021.
The Deputy Minister of Citizen Protection, Eleftherios Oikonomou, said: “Another government announcement for a project of emblematic importance begins to be implemented with today’s sealing of the cooperation of the Ministry of Citizen Protection with TAIPED. The strategically important Project of the relocation of the Korydallos Detention Center in Aspropyrgos , is going to formulate a new prison policy for the country and create suitable conditions for the accommodation of prisoners in prisons, based on European and international standards. the step of which is its inclusion in the PPP law and the start of the tender process”.
The Authorized Advisor of TAIPED, Panagiotis Stamboulidis, said: “It is a great responsibility that the Strategic Importance Contracts Unit of TAIPED undertakes to carry out the project of strategic importance, as it has been characterized by the competent Government Committee, the relocation of the Reservation Store Korydallou. We are also very honored for the trust of the State, and especially the Ministry of Citizen Protection, towards TAIPED. We will work with the necessary technical competence and quality, which characterizes the executive potential of the Fund, for the implementation of this priority of of the Greek State and the formation of the conditions for a Project with a positive social, environmental and economic footprint in the wider region of Attica”.
Source: Capital
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