The Councilor for Health of the Arrecife City Council, Jacobo Lemes, announced this Tuesday the call for tenders for the expansion works of the municipal cemetery of San Román, for a total amount of 2,111,790.71 euros, including the IGIC. The intervention contemplates an execution period of eight months and constitutes a historical action for the municipality, which has not undertaken a reform of this scope for more than two decades.
The information on this tender is already published in the contractor profile of the Arrecife City Council, where interested companies can consult all the documentation and submit their offers.
The Deputy Mayor and Councilor for Contracting, Echedey Eugenio, explained that "this action is part of the government group's firm commitment to improving essential public services. This is not just a technical or administrative work, but an institutional response to an urgent need that the city had been dragging on, a citizen demand prolonged over time."
In the same line, Jacobo Lemes recalls that "we are facing a large-scale project, which contemplates the construction of 2,800 new niches in an area of 5,578.48 square meters, and which responds to the need to guarantee the capacity of the cemetery, at least until 2030". "The San Román cemetery is practically at the limit of its capacity, and this expansion not only resolves that situation, but also allows planning in the medium and long term with a vision of the future," says the mayor.
Thus, the work, according to the technical and administrative specifications approved by the City Council, will mean a significant expansion of the capacity of the municipal cemetery, with the incorporation of new niches, columbariums and improvements in accessibility and urbanization of the environment. The tender budget amounts to 1,973,636.18 euros without taxes, to which 138,154.53 euros are added in respect of IGIC.
From the Urban Planning area, the councilor Maciot Cabrera highlighted "the importance of this project as part of a global strategy to modernize the public infrastructures of Arrecife. We have been working for a long time to unblock this file and be able to launch a fundamental work for the residents."
The expansion of the San Román cemetery is part of a series of actions promoted by the current government group to improve urban planning and public services in the capital of Lanzarote. "It is one more step in our commitment to a more orderly city, prepared for the future," concludes Cabrera.
