The Tender Committee of the Kyiv Metro has awarded Kryukiv Carriage Works (KVSZ, Poltava region) a victory in the tender to supply Kyiv with 10 units of five-car subway trains financed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) with a bid of almost EUR79.196 million (including VAT), the KVSZ press service reported on Friday.
“Today the much desired for KVSZ and partner enterprises message about the award of victory in the tender for the supply of metro trains has appeared. The proposal of domestic carriage builders was accepted by the tender committee and agreed with the EBRD,” the report says.
The press-service of KVSZ emphasizes that the offer of the Ukrainian plant was 37% lower than that of the second participant – Czech Skoda.
KVSZ offered a subway train with asynchronous traction drive with three motor and two trailing non-motor cars, with bogies of domestic production with central pneumatic suspension and disk brakes.
Train length – 97 m, design speed – 90 km/h, designated service life – 50 years, its total capacity (including standing passengers) – 1650 people.
There are two inclusive seats for wheel chair passengers. Movement of passengers from car to car is free – through hermetic passages (train “pipe”), which KVSZ has been using for more than 10 years in the manufacture of passenger rail rolling stock.
As reported, the tender for the delivery of 50 subway cars (including spare parts and consumables, equipment and tools for maintenance, repair and related services) to Kiev for EBRD funds was announced back in December 2020, the proposals of the participants of the second stage were considered in March this year.
KVSZ recalls that it is ready to offer similar metro cars for Kharkiv Metro, which on May 5, 2023 announced a tender for the purchase of five-section metro trains (with free passage between cars) for EUR45 mln with the funds of the European Investment Bank (EIB), but due to discriminatory, in its assessment, requirements will not be able to participate in it.
The tender committee, in particular, demanded confirmation of experience in supplying at least 30 subway cars over the last five years, while KVBZ “put on the rails” 170 cars, but not over the last five years.
In addition, the conditions prescribe requirements only for European standards.
As reported, Kharkiv has again postponed the deadline for consideration of participants’ proposals in this tender – to October 10, 2023.
KVSZ, Ukraine’s largest railcar building enterprise, produces passenger and freight cars, regional diesel trains, high-speed interregional locomotive traction trains, spare parts and bogies for freight cars.
The company’s net income in 2022 increased by 38.4% to UAH 3 bln 545 mln, net profit amounted to UAH 37.25 mln against a loss of UAH 230 mln a year earlier.
Warsaw Metro will provide Kyiv Metropoliten with 60 subway cars.
This is stipulated in a letter of intent signed between the mayors of Kyiv and Warsaw, Vitali Klitschko and Rafal Trzaskowski, on Wednesday.
The document was signed during a visit to Kyiv by the mayors of four European capitals – members of the Pact of Free Cities – who arrived to reaffirm their support to the Ukrainian capital, the press service of Kyiv mayor said.
The mayors of Warsaw, Prague, Budapest, and Bratislava concluded the Pact of Free Cities in 2019. Kyiv joined the document on September 26, 2022.
Warsaw became a logistic center for transferring humanitarian aid to Kyiv from other European cities and countries, including 2,500 tonnes of food, hygiene items, medicines, as well as pipes and a generator for PJSC Kyivvodokanal, the press service said.
