The auction for the supply of 116 trams to St. Petersburg for 16.5 billion rubles was declared invalid. There was one participant, and his application did not meet the requirements.
The protocol was published on May 17. Like predicted “Fontanka”, with the supplier did not work out.
According to the interlocutor in the transport block, errors were found in the documents, which will be corrected by the time the auction is re-announced. The name of the participating company and potential supplier is not a secret: PK TS was going to fulfill an order of such a volume, which, unlike the Ural competitors, is not loaded as part of the state defense order.
Recall that speech goes about trams of different sizes – three-section, two-section and one-section. The production schedule provides for production in 2023-2026.
Previously recall, became known the results of two other auctions, smaller. Uraltransmash will supply 22 retro trams to St. Petersburg, and UKVZ will supply 14 single-section trams. About how the price of rolling stock has changed in recent years – read in the material “Fontanka”.