The Kyiv Metro has re-announced a tender for the purchase of 50 railcars as part of the Kyiv Urban Transport Modernization II project, funded by a loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the subway reported.
According to the report, the tender involves the purchase of 10 five-car trains with a free passage between cars (a “tube”), including the supply of spare parts, consumables, equipment and tools for rolling stock maintenance and repair.
The procurement will be conducted in the format of an open tender with prequalification. The deadline for submitting proposals for the first stage is May 2025.
As reported, the first similar tender in August 2023 was won by Kryukiv Carriage Works (KVSZ), which offered 10 trains for EUR79.2 million (including VAT), which was 37% cheaper than the offer of the second participant, Czech Skoda.
KVSZ proposed a 97-meter-long metro train with an asynchronous traction drive with three motorized and two trailed non-motorized cars, with domestic-made bogies, with a total passenger capacity of 1,650 people.
However, in November of the same year, Kyiv Metro canceled its decision to award the contract to KVSZ, and the carriage plant, in turn, tried to appeal the decision in the Kyiv Commercial Court, but to no avail.
The court’s decision dismissing KVSZ’s claim came into force in November 2024.
According to the court materials, Kyiv justified the decision to cancel the award of the contract by the fact that KVSZ tried to replace the supplier of the main equipment (in particular, control systems, traction power and equipment, traction gearboxes, subway control system) from the Spanish CAF (which was agreed with the EBRD) to a Polish or Japanese company.
At the same time, KVSZ pointed out that the change of supplier was due to the fact that CAF refused to supply the plant with equipment due to the workload of production lines. However, Metro refused to replace the supplier because it contradicted the terms of the tender.
As reported, in February 2021, the EBRD and Kyiv Metro signed a EUR 50 million loan agreement for the purchase of 50 new subway cars.
The subway trains are to be purchased for the Syretsko-Pecherska subway line towards the Vynohradar residential area, which will be resumed in 2024.
According to the Kyiv Metro, its inventory fleet currently includes more than 830 cars. At the same time, about 100 railcars will soon reach the end of their service life.
“On March 6, Kyivteploenergo announced a tender for compulsory motor liability insurance, according to the Prozorro e-procurement system.
The tender was also announced for services related to compensation for damage and negative consequences of transportation of dangerous goods by rail for CHPP-5 and CHPP-6, compulsory personal insurance against accidents in transport, compulsory liability insurance of subjects of transportation of dangerous goods.
The total expected cost of services procurement is UAH 3.913 mln.
The last day for submitting an application for participation is March 14.
Communal enterprise “Kyivpastrans” on February 20 announced a tender for compulsory insurance of civil liability of owners of land vehicles (OSAGO) category B1, B2, B3, F, C1, C2, E 305 units.
The expected value of the insurance services purchase is UAH 2.606 mln.
Applications for participation in the tender are accepted until February 28.
Ukrzaliznytsia (UZ) is simplifying the requirements for the company’s tender purchases by reducing the list of goods that required inspection by almost half – from 92 to 47 nomenclature items.
“The company’s board has decided to no longer apply the requirements for railway use of products in procurement and has significantly limited the list of goods subject to inspection control,” the company’s press service said in a statement on Telegram on Monday.
The list of products requiring inspection control – procedures for checking the quality and compliance of products with established standards at the stage of production – will be reduced to 47 items. Currently, the list of products approved by Ukrzaliznytsia’s order No. 44 of February 1, 2016, includes 92 items. In particular, the list includes locomotives, electric trains, passenger cars, freight cars, traction motors, auto-braking equipment, tanks, refrigerated cars, wheelsets, railroad rails, and turnouts.
The new list of products subject to production and inspection control will be published on the website of Ukrzaliznytsia. The company also said that in the coming weeks, changes will be made to the standard tender documentation and announcements with amended requirements for specific procurement items will be made.
The company noted that about a quarter of the product range purchased by Ukrzaliznytsia is labeled “railway products”, which requires it to undergo a special procedure for putting into production.
The rule made it difficult for most manufacturers and suppliers to participate in tenders and created significant corruption risks, the company emphasized, noting that reducing the requirements for participants and strengthening incoming control by Ukrzaliznytsia will simplify participation in tender procedures, increase competition in bidding and ensure the required quality, the company said.
“As promised in December at the Supplier’s Day: Railway Partnership conference, we have excluded from the list all products that are not specific to railways and do not directly affect traffic safety. This makes it much easier for many suppliers to participate in our tender procedures. In fact, for the vast majority of items, we have moved the quality control stage from the qualification of participants to the delivery stage, as we are primarily interested in the quality of the products supplied to us, not the certificates that artificially restricted competition,” the press service quoted Oleksandr Nakhod, director of Ukrzaliznytsia, as saying.
The next step will be a significant reduction in the list of products requiring a conditional number (a unique identifier assigned to railway products subject to mandatory inspection control – IF-U), Ukrzaliznytsia said.
insurance State enterprise NAEK Energoatom (Kyiv) announced a tender for compulsory insurance of motor civil liability of owners of land vehicles (MTPL) on February 12.
According to the electronic public procurement system Prozorro, the total expected cost is UAH 1.029 million. The deadline for submitting tender documents is February 21.
On February 6, the state-owned enterprise Artek International Children’s Center (Kyiv, Pushcha-Vodytsia) announced a tender for life and health insurance for 15,886 children.
According to the Prozorro electronic procurement system, the expected cost of the service was UAH 157,271 thousand. Proposals will be accepted until February 14. As reported, the winner of a similar tender a year earlier was the Ukrainian Fire Insurance Company.
