The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) may award the contract for the capacity expansion project of the Metro Rail Transit line 3 (MRT3) along EDSA to CNR Dalian Locomotive & Rolling Stock Co. Ltd. of China early next year. Transportation Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya said the agency’s bids and a
The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) may award the contract for the capacity expansion project of the Metro Rail Transit line 3 (MRT3) along EDSA to CNR Dalian Locomotive & Rolling Stock Co. Ltd. of China early next year.
Transportation Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya said the agency's bids and awards committee (BAC) is likely to issue the Notice of Award to CNR Dalian in the first week of January.
The capacity expansion project worth P3.8 billion ($85 million) involves the procurement of 48 light rail vehicles (LRVs) for MRT3. The mass transit system now serves close to 600,000 passengers per day or almost double the original designed capacity of 350,000.
The joint special bids and awards committee of the DOTC and the Light Rail Transit Authority (LRTA) is in the process of post qualifying the bid submitted by lone bidder CNR Dalian.
Under the expansion program, the DOTC said the government would acquire 48 new trains to be able to use 4-car trains that would arrive every 2.5 minutes during peak hours from the current system wherein three-car trains arrive every three minutes during peak hours.
Abaya reiterated that the government expects the delivery of the additional 48 new trains under the expansion project a month before President Aquino steps down in 2016.