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The qualification requirements for candidates include experience building a large-scale public building, experience performing building works, where the building project has been developed in the BIM (Building Information Modelling) environment, as well as recruitment of specialists with certain qualifications. Candidates must be financially stable and have a good reputation. Precedence in the selection of candidates will be given to building contractors with experience of building tall structures, as well as builders with experience of large-scale building works, where the buildings works must be performed without disrupting the use of the structure being rebuilt, which is one of the biggest challenges in rebuilding the TV tower.

The Zaķusala TV tower provides TV and radio broadcasting for half the territory of Latvia. Moreover, during the past decade, the tower's technical functions have significantly expanded and currently the tower also provides data center, colocation and other services to over 90 institutions and organizations, including over 40 domestic and a host of international electronic communications service providers.  The tower is also home to the most modern colocation center for electronic communications businesses in the Baltics.  During the rebuilding process, the technological part of the tower will be isolated from all rebuilding processes and will only be accessible to clients and LVRTC employees.

In the first round of the tender, candidates to be the main building works contractor will be selected, who meet the qualification requirements specified in the candidate selection procurement regulation. The selected candidates will be invited to submit a technical and financial offer in the second round of the tender.

The contract to perform the tower's rebuilding works will be concluded with the candidate that submits the most commercially viable offer in the second round of the tender. The planned contract price is EUR 54,000,000 not including VAT.

The building works are scheduled to start in 2021 and it is planned that they will take up to 48 months.

During the rebuilding period, it is planned that the TV tower building will be rebuilt and expanded, establishing a science and innovation center there, office premises for LVRTC requirements, conference rooms, as well as rooms for public activities. During the works, it also planned that innovative and attractive solutions will be built in order to renovate existing viewing platforms at various heights. It is also planned to install the world's biggest Foucault Pendulum and to landscape the adjoining territory, thus creating a unique Latvian skyline. The winner of the tender will also have to replace physically outdated technical engineering equipment in order to ensure a safe and sustainable RRTS and the functioning of its infrastructure.

The Zaķusala TV tower is the highest tower in the European Union. While it entered service in 1989, it has provided broadcasting since 1986. Currently, the TV tower is the youngest building in Latvia to have been included in the list of cultural-historical monuments.

This major rebuilding project has been commenced, in order to transform the TV tower and adjoining territory into a contemporary part of the urban environment, which is both technologically and functionally modern and safe, to make it a popular sightseeing and leisure destination for the city's visitors and inhabitants, and to inspire visitors to learn by means of a simultaneous narrative about technology, innovations and history. After rebuilding, the tower should become an important public education center in the realm of technology, as well as a venue for industry events, thus improving the technological capabilities of individuals, society and the State.