The tender committee rejected the application of the Swiss company Stadler Bussnang AG to participate in the auction for the supply of 18 low-floor three-section trams to Dnipro and Kryvyi Rih for 1.2 billion UAH, according to information in ProZorro.

The tender committee rejected Stadler application

At the same time, Tatra-Yug LLC and UKVZ Ukraine Trading House LLC, initially a dealer of the Russian tram manufacturer Ust-Katav Car-Building Plant, were admitted to the tender. His documents do not contain information that the specific model of the tram offers to UKVZ-Ukraine, reports Railway Supply magazine.

BKM-Ukraine LLC (Lutsk), a dealer of the Belarusian Belkommunmash, which has assembly production in Lutsk, was also not allowed to participate in the auction. The participant is in the consolidated information of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU).

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The Ukrainian-German JV Electrontrans (Lviv) also planned to apply for participation, which filed complaints about the discriminatory terms of the tender, including to the AMCU, but the AMCU refused to satisfy the complaint.

The tender committee demanded that the discrepancies in the submitted documents should be eliminated by December 29.

The main part of Dnipro tram fleet consists of modernized Tatra trams, Tatra-Yug cars and about 30 KTM trams manufactured in the 1990s (Russian-made).

Kryvyi Rih mainly operates old KTM5 cars, and new cars (7 units of the K1 model manufactured by Tatra-YUG) were last purchased in 2007-2008. The city’s high-speed tram line mainly operates 80s cars.

On October 6, 2021, a memorandum was signed in Kharkiv between the city and the Swiss rolling stock manufacturer Stadler, aimed at renovating the tram fleet in Kharkiv.

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