Belgium re tenders Liege tram PPP project
The Walloon Government has launched a new tender for the development of the Liège Tramway public private partnership (PPP) project.
The project includes the construction of 12 km tramway between the Standard Liege Stadium and the northern district Coronmeuse, as well as the total renovation of the road network. This route could be extended to Jemeppe and / or Herstal, 18 km maximum in total, as part of a later contract. The project would be operated by a fleet of about 19 trams.
The PPP rail project will be developed on design, build, finance and maintenance (DBFM) basis. The concession contract will have a maintenance period of 27 years.
The total project investment is estimated at US$522 million.
Interested parties must submit their request to participate on or before September 29.
In April this year we reported that the government had plans to re-launch the tender process after Eurostat accounting troubles halted the contract awarded in 2014. A consortium called Mobiliège and formed by Alstom Transport, BAM PPP PGGM Infrastructure Co-operative (a joint venture of BAM PPP and PGGM), DG Infra (now TDP) and SRIW Environment was selected in December 2014 to develop the project.
The development of the project had already started with the following investment already realized: €15.4 million in studies, €3.3 million in land acquisitions and 14.3 million in displacing utilities and existing infrastructure.
See tender announcement:
http://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:202015-2016:TEXT:EN:HTML&tabId=0
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