On March 26, the MTQ received technical proposals from the three candidates who are in the running for the 35-year contract for the design, construction, financing, operation, maintenance, and repair of Autoroute 30. The three proposals were deemed to be eligible.

The technical component of the proposals will now be evaluated based on technical criteria previously established by the MTQ and conveyed to the invited candidates. The invited candidates whose proposals contain technical components that are deemed to be eligible will be announced on April 23, 2008.
 
These candidates will then be invited to submit the financial component of their proposals by May 7, 2008 at the latest. Once this component has been evaluated, the selected candidate will be announced in June. The Partnership Agreement will be signed in the fall.

As a reminder, the three candidates in the running are:

Infras-Québec A-30 composed of:

    - Macquarie Capital Group Limited
    - Construction Kiewit Cie
    - Parsons Overseas Company of Canada
    - Genivar S.E.C.
    - Miller Paving Ltd.
    - Construction Demathieu & Bard


Nouvelle Autoroute 30 composed of:

    - Acciona S.A.
    - Iridium Concesiones de Infraestructuras S.A.
    - Acciona Infrastructures Canada Inc.
    - Dragados Canada Inc.
    - SICE
    - Arup Canada Inc.
    - Construction DJL Inc.
    - Verreault inc.


 Partenariat Autoroute 30 S.E.C. composed of:

    - SNC-Lavalin Inc.
    - Pomerleau inc.
    - EBC inc.
    - Rizzani de Eccher S.P.A.
    - Buckland & Taylor Ltd.
    - Tecsult inc.
    - Dexia Crédit Local. S.A.
    - Mainroad Lower Mainland Contracting Ltd.