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Friday, 29.03.2024, 11:55
Rail Baltic Estonia announces procurement of tender strategy
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.