The tender for the Nissan land in Barcelona is put out to tender. The Barcelona Free Zone Consortium (Czfb) will publish today the tender for the contest to award the company’s former land in the Barcelona Free Trade Zone. The new tenant must pay at least 12 million euros per year in rent and the contract will have a minimum duration of 50 years, with an extension of up to twenty additional years. The deadline for submitting offers will end The 15th of August.
The first envelope is opened on September 1, the second the next day and the third on September 15. If there is no challenge, it is expected that the award can be formalized in October. A single logistics operator will be in charge of managing the facilities and its different tenants.
The contest will be open to companies that present a logistics and an industrial project, preferably related to the automotive activity. One of the requirements is to maintain the jobs lost after the departure of Nissansince there are some 1,300 people pending relocation.
The contest is drawn up to make possible the execution of the D-Hub, a project for which the reindustrialization table bet. It is an initiative promoted by a consortium of 30 companies whose objective is to produce small-series last-mile electric vehicles for different brands. The D-Hub is led by QEV Technologiesthe Btech engineering and the Improva consultancy.
The agreements of the reindustrialization table also contemplate that the manufacturer of electric motorcycles Silence, owned by Acciona, assume part of the facilities left by Nissan.