Bucharest transit authority no longer forced to buy Russian trams due to bureaucratic problems on behalf of the winning bider (article in Romanian)

a year ago by petrescatraian to c/war

Societatea de Transport București a anulat procedura achiziție a 40 de tramvaie construite în Rusia, pentru care ar fi trebuit să plătească peste 70 de milioane de euro. Deși a fost obligată în instanță să le cumpere, STB se folosește de o eroare a firmei controlate de Gruia Stoica și scapă de povara financiară care […]
petrescatraian 3 points a year ago

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Basically, the transit authority should have bought these 18m trams with around 1 mln. Euro each, representing both the cost of the trams themselves, and the cost of the penalties resulted from not respecting the contract on behalf of STB, as the contract was contested in the court too, but STB lost. Now the bidder (Electroputere VFU Pașcani) didn't manage to get all the papers on time in order to extend the contract, so the contract simply expired, with no possibility of extension (i.e. forever)

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