Stadler wins new contract from Máv-Start

The passenger operation unit of Hungarian State Railways, Máv-Start, and Stadler Bussnang signed a contract for the supply of 21 suburban Flirt EMUs. The total value amounts to approximately EUR125 million. The EMUs will operate on the suburban lines of Budapest.
MÁV issued the public procurement in two separate parts, applicants could bid for the supply of 6 and 15 units apart. Its reason was that the purchase of the first 6 units is to be covered by the Transport Operational Programme of the European Union, which is terminating in 2015, while the purchase of 15 trains will be financed from the Integrated Transport Development Operational Programme. In line with this, Stadler will deliver the first 6 EMUs until October 2015 and the remaining 15 units until December 2016. With this procurement MÁV-START will have the total of 123 FLIRT trains until the end of 2016.