On 15 September 2017, it was announced that China Road and Bridge Corporation, Austrian Strabag and Italian-Turkish consortium Astaldi/Içtas applied for a bridge construction tender. The Austrians offered the cost of 2.622 billion HRK, the Italian-Turkish offer was 2.551 billion HRK, while the Chinese offer was 2.08 billion HRK.[42] On 15 January 2018, Hrvatske ceste made a formal decision according to which China Road and Bridge Corporation won the tender.