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Rail Baltic Estonia announces procurement of tender strategy

BC, Tallinn, 20.11.2018.Print version
Rail Baltic Estonia OU, the Estonian holding enterprise founded for the construction of the international Rail Baltic railway, has announced a public procurement to determine the most viable strategy for carrying out tenders relating to construction and organization of construction work.

The procurement aims to ensure fast and timely organization of construction as well as best possible framework for using local businesses and earth deposits during the construction period, Rail Baltic Estonia said. The date for submission of tenders is Dec. 20.


"Rail Baltic is the largest infrastructure project ever planned in Estonia and with a project of such scale, skilled and smooth organization of construction is crucial," Anvar Salomets, chief technical officer of Rail Baltic Estonia, said.


Salomets said that the current procurement seeks to develop a full procurement strategy for the project, which would show the number of stages and separate tenders required for build contracting and related activities. "To spell it out, it means, for instance, timing tenders in such a way that the smoothest possible process is ensured," he said.  


Salomets added that the procurement strategy will clarify which procurements should be divided into smaller parts and to which extent. It also covers optimal length of construction sections as well as complex consideration of processes, starting from construction of the track bed to the superstructures, from various structures to access roads and communications. 


Along with drawing up a strategy, the procurement provides the option to order a more detailed plan of organization of construction, forecasting the volumes and related risks to ensure reasonable competition and adequate offers.


"This also meets a very important objective for us to include local businesses in the tenders, give priority to the most environmentally friendly solutions and handle local earth deposits as sparingly as possible," he said.


The procurement strategy, which is to be completed in the fall or early winter of 2019, must take into consideration best international practices and experience relating to projects similar in scale as well as the capacity of the local market.

Rail Baltic Estonia is an enterprise within the administrative domain of the Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications, which was founded for representing the interests of Estonia in RB Rail, the joint venture of the three Baltic countries, and for realizing the project as well as fulfilling administrative and technical tasks in Estonia. 


Rail Baltic is a double track, European standard 1,435 mm gauge electrified railway for passenger and freight transport to be built from Tallinn to the Lithuanian-Polish border. The railway will have an overall length of 870 kilometers.






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