a network of Tram in Athens. According to reliable information the tender procedure has been adopted by the Board of directors at the end of the year and now the contest is just around the corner.
The cost of the tender is expected to be the same with the previous contest (it was 64.250.000 euro) while the notice of auction is placed in November. The competition will have taken place earlier but the Law on public procurement, “cut off” time of the Attiko Metro.
Bear in mind that in the previous competition, the duration of the contract has a duration of 940 days (around 31 months) and when the tender completed by the end of 2017, then in total, the trains should have been delivered until the summer of 2020!
However, as in all similar contests, the supply of the first trains will be earlier, probably in mid-2018. This is the second generation trains, Trams will join the network of Athens and will include all the technical improvements that have occurred since 2004 when he came the first generation from Italy and ansaldo breda.
The supply of 25 trains Tram is considered necessary for the proper operation of the extensions to Piraeus and Keratsini that will be the next expansion. Only for the extension to Piraeus are required 12 trains Trams and that means that until it was put into operation the first of the new trains, the routes in the network will necessarily be thin in order to cover the increased needs, which de facto would occur as this expansion is expected to come into operation until the beginning of 2017.
This is the third attempt made for the supply of trains. Bear in mind that the first competition lasted for almost 2 years, there have been incredible jams due to the consecutive actions of the participants and ultimately cancelled. 2016 just before a change of administration επαναδημοπÏατήθηκε but the procedure was cancelled by the new administration as it was considered that the notice is “camera” and it placed information in accordance with the same will attract more contestants.
It is worth noting that the competition will be electronic and will be done through the ΕΣΗΔΗΣ and the electronic platform www.promitheus.gov.gr. Even the issues of the contest, will be interested to procure from a specific platform. The focus is both on the effectiveness of the electronic cigarette.competition, and the final discount and the expected “battle” of the participants in the first contest was a total of 13, a record number for the Greek data.
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From day to day, the tender for supply of 25 Trains, with a Tram in Athens
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