The tender, estimated at EUR 3 billion, should have been organised on April 5, but the Turkish Ministry of Transport announced its postponement without specifying when it will be resumed. According to the information published by the Ministry of Transport in Turkey, certain requirements for the acquisition of the 96 high-speed trains have been modified again at the request of several companies in the railway sector, this being the reason for the cancellation of the procedure.
The date of the new pre-qualification procedure will be announced once the specifications have been completed with the technical requirements and modifications entailed.
Under the terms of the tender, a first batch of 20 high-speed trains will be produced at the manufacturer’s headquarters, with only 10% production being localized in Turkey. The next batch of 60 high-speed trains will be manufactured in Turkey with a local production rate of 53%. The remaining 16 vehicles, out of the total of 96, will be manufactured in Turkey by Tülomsaş (the national locomotives and passenger coaches’ manufacturer) but under the supervision of the winner of the tender to be organised. The rate of localization in Turkey for the production of the 16 high-speed trains will be 74%.
The terms of the tender include the construction of a new production plant on Turkish territory and a train test facility, both of them in Eskișehir city. The project also includes the transfer of know-how and the free of charge transfer to Tülomsaş, at the end of the manufacturing process, of all the equipment used by the winning manufacturer.
According to the requirements, all 96 high-speed trains will have to run at 250 km/h, they will be equipped with ETCS Level 1 and Level 2 signaling system and they will also have to be equipped with a regenerative braking system. The new high-speed trains should have a capacity for the transport of 470 passengers, a minimum of 90 seats in business class cars (each train will have two business class cars).
We remind that innitialy, the tender should have been organised this January, as Turkey announced at the end of 2017. But, TCDD decided to postpone the pre-qualification procedure at the request of a series of companies willing to attend the tender. In order to prepare the neccesary tender documents, the companies need more time.
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