📋 Tender Overview
During the afternoon of Thursday December 9 2021 the general manager of the Metropolitan Public Company of Quito Efran Bastidas gave a lecture about the process involved in the construction of a metro from the conception of the idea its design equipment until its operation.The talk was organized by the Pichincha College of Civil Engineers CICP a strategic sector close to the Quito Metro work. For Hernn Bedn coordinator of the CICP Committee on Provincial and National Interest Issues it is important to have a panoramic view of the technical process of the most relevant transport work in the country.During the conference the head of the Quito Metro explained the importance of the initial plans for a city to have an underground railway system considering each element in the construction stages as well as the actors involved in it. He explained the design of a metro in its planning the studies of the civil works the engineering of the trains the electromechanical studies and the structuring of the financing. Likewise he exemplified the process for the construction of the civil works the equipment of the rolling stock and the integration of the systems as a whole.Regarding the final phase of the entire process the general manager mentioned that the last major component is the operation or railway exploitation where its main elements are maintenance administration and finances customer service and generation of non-tariff income . It is for this component that the technical work of the companys personnel is currently focused in preparation for the hiring of an international operator with experience in railway management.The work in Metro de Quito has been successful in the design field we have a timely and well-executed audited construction where we have considered every detail from a comprehensive vision concluded Efran Bastidas. In this way spaces for socialization and exchange of ideas are opened on the technical advances that have been considered and are being worked on for the operation of the Quito Metro.This emblematic work is in the process of defining the technical parameters prior to hiring the international company that operates the Quito Metro. Thus it works in a coordinated manner to comply with the city for the start of the commissioning during the last quarter of 2022.
