The Romanian government approved the technical-economic indicators for the Brașov–Făgăraș motorway on Thursday, marking a further step towards construction procurement. The project will connect Brașov with Făgăraș and extend a high-speed corridor towards Sibiu, western Romania and the rest of Europe. Officials have said that the next stage will be the launch of a tender for construction works.
Approval moves the project towards construction procurement
Technical-economic indicators set out the approved basis for a public investment, including its main scope and engineering parameters. In this case, the government approval does not itself award a construction contract. It clears a project stage before the works competition, with the next step identified as the launch of a tender for construction. The sequence matters to suppliers and contracting authorities alike: the authority first establishes what is to be built and on what technical basis, then invites bids for delivery. The source says a study and technical design had previously been put out to tender, and that Thursday’s approval completes the stage begun at that time.
A 49.3-kilometre link towards Sibiu and Europe
The planned motorway will run for 49.3 kilometres between Brașov and Făgăraș. From Făgăraș, the wider high-speed corridor towards Sibiu and further west is already under construction, according to the announcement. The project design includes three interchanges at Codlea Sud, Codlea Nord and Șercaia, alongside 49 bridges, passages and viaducts. It also provides for three covered cut-and-cover galleries with a combined length of approximately 800 metres, designed to serve as ecoducts, as well as a service area, a short-stay car park and a Maintenance and Coordination Centre.
Former minister argues for prioritisation
Cătălin Drulă, a former transport minister, welcomed the approval and argued that Brașov–Făgăraș is more important than many motorway schemes already tendered or contracted but not yet under construction. He based that view on traffic volumes, the route’s transit role and its connection between economic centres. These are Drulă’s assessments, and the source does not provide an independent comparison or a benefit-cost calculation to verify them. He also said the project had been abandoned when he took office in 2021, after having been treated as a theoretical section of the Transilvania motorway and left inactive for 15 years.
The corridor would change Brașov’s motorway connections
Drulă said that, if the Brașov–Făgăraș motorway is delivered, Brașov would be connected to the European motorway network through the link towards Sibiu. He also criticised successive political decisions for leaving the city without a motorway connection towards Bucharest, Moldova or Sibiu and Europe. Those comments are political allegations and opinions rather than findings established by the approval announcement. The procurement significance is more concrete: the project has now passed the technical-economic indicators stage, and the construction tender is the next stated mechanism for testing the market and selecting a contractor.
| Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Project | Brașov–Făgăraș motorway |
| Status | Technical-economic indicators approved by the government |
| Length | 49.3 kilometres |
| Interchanges | Codlea Sud, Codlea Nord and Șercaia |
| Structures | 49 bridges, passages and viaducts |
| Covered galleries | Three, totalling approximately 800 metres |
| Next procurement step | Launch of the tender for construction works |
The project has now passed the technical-economic indicators stage, and the construction tender is the next stated mechanism for testing the market.
WHY IT MATTERS
Approval of technical-economic indicators is a concrete progress point, but it is not the same as awarding the works. For this motorway, the stated next step is a construction tender, where the approved scope will be put to the market.
Reported from economica.net, 2026-09-24. The Tender Wire is published by Otnox.
