Prague plans to buy up to 200 new trams for fifteen billion crowns
The most modern trams in Prague are the Škoda 15T ForCity low-floor cars from Pilsen. Photo: Transport enterprise hl. m of Prague
The Prague Transport Company (DPP) plans to purchase up to 200 new low-floor one-way trams in the next ten years, and these days announced their supplier for a public contract in the form of an open negotiation procedure with publication. DPP spokeswoman Aneta Řehková informed about it. The expected total value of the order is 15 billion crowns in case of withdrawal of all.
Prague councilors decided on the purchase of new trams this September. The deadline for applicants to apply for participation in the tender is December 19, 2022. The winner of the tender should be known during the last quarter of next year.
DPP will obligatorily take the first 40 vehicles in two batches, and will conclude a framework contract with the supplier for the remaining trams. “For the purchase of the first 20 vehicles, we plan to use funding from the relevant calls of the National Recovery Plan of the Czech Republic,” said Řehková.
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In addition to the purchase of up to 200 low-floor one-way trams with a vehicle length of up to 32 meters, the subject of the public procurement, which is announced by the DPP in the form of an open negotiation procedure with publication, is also the support and development of the software functions of the vehicles, the provision of a license for the software for detecting tram faults, technical documentation, employee training DPP and, last but not least, ten sets of service products.
The offered trams should have a field of imagination DPP with a total capacity of at least 220 passengers (sitting and standing). There should be a limit of at least 60 passenger seats, with at least 60 percent of them facing the direction of travel. The increased area in the vehicle must not exceed 20 percent of the total interior area, in other words low-floor, and thus the barrier-free range of trams offered should make up at least four fifths of the total interior area of the vehicles.
The highest possible weight of the trams offered is 48 tons, with a deviation of plus/minus 5 percent. For new DPP trams, we require a minimum warranty of 36 months and a service life of at least 30 years from the date of delivery of the last vehicle. The trams will be equipped with full-car PID air conditioning.
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“We are now building two new tram lines in Prague: from Modřany to Libuš and from Divoká Šárka to Dědin. Just before the start of the construction of the last section of the line to Sliven and DPP, the contractor for the construction of the tram line on Wenceslas Square, which could begin construction next year, is competing. In addition, DPP based on the decision of the Council of m of Prague is planning to prepare another 10 new tram lines, about half of which could be built in the next five years or so. We will need additional trams to serve these lines,” said Deputy Mayor for Transport Adam Scheinherr (Praha Sobě).
“We would like to have a tendered supplier and a signed contract with him within about a year. We will obligatorily take the first 40 vehicles in two batches – the first 20 trams between January 1 and December 2, 2025, and the second 20 trams gradually throughout the year 2026. For the remaining 160 vehicles of the supplier, we will enter into a framework contract for the eventual purchase of additional trams in the period from January 1, 2027 to December 31, 2035, while it should not be more than 30 cars in one year,” added DPP technical director Jan Šurovský.