IT company Wasko, along with Nokia filed the lowest bid in the tender for installing a GSM-R network for Poland’s rail infrastructure manager PKP PLK. The value of the bid is PLN 2.26 billion net (EUR 529 million). The system will be used for wireless communications on the railway network. The works on the project are set to be completed within 62 months.
At the beginning of this year, PKP PLK said that by the end of 2017 it will sign the contracts on GSM-R deployment. The company is purchasing a GSM-R and DWDM network (Dense wavelength division multiplexing), a fiber-optic transmision technique.
The tender was divided into two parts, with respective values of PLN 2.2 billion (EUR 515.9 million) and PLN 600,000 (EUR 140,705). PKP PLK had to make its selection from eighteen applications that have been submitted, seven for GSM-R and eleven for DWDM.
The first part of the contract includes the construction of a complete GSM-R infrastructure passive radio devices and teletransmission transmitters and (optional) 7-year maintenance of the entire system, as well as the supply of GSM-R terminals and SIM cards. According to the guidelines, the implementation will require a total of about 1,800 mobile network location from which some already established in a pilot phase. Part of the next location is already designed and PKP PLK has permits to build them.
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