📋 Tender Overview
The Railway Administration should pay significantly less money for the maintenance of important tracks. The bid prices in four current tenders are almost a third lower than the expected costs and the total savings could exceed 340 million. As a result the renewal of another section originally planned for next year could start as early as this year.
The significant savings were mainly brought about by the tender for the so-called cyclical renewal of the track between Vsetin and Horni Lidci where the price dropped from the originally anticipated 578 million to 383 million crowns. The savings are among other things the result of interest from as many as seven bidders for the contract.
Another nearly 80 million should be saved by the Railway Administration for the cyclical renewal of the section Nymburk - Golcuv Jenikov where the expected bid price fell from nearly 223 million to 143 million crowns due to the participation of five bidders.
Savings of nearly 70 million crowns could be achieved for two more cyclical renewals which will concern the busiest corridor between Pardubice and Kolin and the section from Rehlovice to Uporiny in the Usti region. Thanks to hundreds of millions in savings the Railway Administration should start a major renewal of the track between Beroun and Karizek this year which was originally planned for next year.
The savings that the Railway Administration is currently reporting fit into the direction we have set together with them. It shows that our effort to build quickly quality and cheaply is not a contradiction but a reality thanks to the pressure for maximum efficiency in handling taxpayers money says Minister of Transport Ivan Bednarik.
We see these tenders as confirmation that we can work more efficiently and push costs down while maintaining quality. This gives us a solid foundation for the coming years on which we want to build steps towards a more economically sustainable operation. The path we have taken is the right one adds the new head of the Railway Administration Tomas Toth.
The evaluation of the mentioned tenders is currently being completed. The cyclical renewal primarily involves the replacement of tracks and switches and the last-mentioned project between Rehlovice and Uporiny focuses on the overhead line.
