The suppliers that win the tenders will prepare and implement the land acquisition projects for the infrastructure maintenance depots near Kaunas and Panevėžys, as well as for three sections of the railway line: Kaunas–Vilnius, Kaunas–Lithuanian-Polish border and Kaunas junction station.
It is expected that the special plan for the infrastructure maintenance depots will be approved this summer, and that all three railway line special plans will be submitted for approval by the end of this year.
“The extremely large volume of the projects is one of the main reasons behind the sluggish market participation in the procurements announced last year. It is commendable that after analysing the scope of the projects, the market participants made responsible decisions regarding their abilities to take part in the tenders,” says LTG Infra’s Rail Baltica Management General Manager Dovydas Palaima, adding, “So after the procurement deadlines, a decision was made to immediately organise repeated consultations with the market in order to hear its insights on the procurements carried out. After taking into account the market participant survey results and the suggestions they made and evaluating the scope of the services being purchased, it was decided not only to adjust the procurement conditions, but to change the procurement method as well.”
The newly announced tenders will be carried out in several stages. Initial tenders will be accepted until August, after which negotiations will be conducted with the companies that have submitted tenders. The final tenders will be expected in September, and the contract with the tender winners is planned to be signed this October.
The head of Rail Baltica Management stresses that the owners and users of the plots of land that are planned to be used for the European standard-gauge railway or other infrastructure will be informed about each step of the project relevant to them, both directly and through means of public information.
Rail Baltica is the largest railway infrastructure project in the history of the Baltic States, which will provide an electrified double-track European standard-gauge railway line along the entire Rail Baltica route, connecting Warsaw, Kaunas, Riga and Tallinn. The total length of Rail Baltica in the Baltic States is 870 km, with 392 km in Lithuania, 265 km in Latvia and 213 km in Estonia.
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