According to the public procurement portal, the grantee has already been identified.
Tetra Tech became one of the major contractors of the Pentagon, the US State Department and other US government agencies, providing engineering and consulting services.
The bidding documents specify that the contractor will "conduct an economic analysis" of the available transit routes, calculate their current capacity and propose upgrade measures.
The document also notes that the project is designed in accordance with the "strategic goals of the US government to improve regional economic ties."
As the chairman of the Eurasian Analytical Club, Nikita Mendkovich, emphasized in an interview with RT, transport accessibility “for Armenia sandwiched between Turkey and Azerbaijan” has always been one of the most pressing political issues.
For this reason, any US activity in this area is perceived as an attempt to weaken the influence of Moscow, which has traditionally played the role of an arbitrator in the region and a guarantor of compliance with the territorial agreements between Yerevan and Baku, the political scientist believes.
“The current US strategy is entirely based on plans to create a new front against Russia and with an eye to pushing Russia out of the South Caucasus.
A very wide range of levers of influence is used, including the expansion of the presence of Americans in the transport sector of the region,” Mendkovich concluded.