The Belgian Rail network launched a European tender to replace hundreds of trains and received three offers: from CAF (chosen project), Siemens and the Belgian Alstom. The latter submitted an appeal to the court. It is a contract between 1700 and 34 billion euros.
The State Council of Belgium suspended the decision of the Belgian National Railway Network on Thursday Lack of transparency in the allocation process.
The Guipuzcoan company acquired a public contract last February for the purchase of cars for the Belgian railways, it is a contract between 1700 and 3400 million euros.
The Belgian train network launched a European tender for a contract intended to replace hundreds of self -desired trains, for which it received three offers: from the Basque Caf, Siemens and Alstom.
After the decision to choose CAF as “Preferential bidder”The French company Alstom, based in Belgium, presented an appeal before the court. Bernard Belvaux, general director of the Alstom subsidiary in Benelux, said it was a “shocking” decision, and added that the company employed 3000 people in Belgium and that his offer was 100 million euros cheaper than CAF, according to local media.
Mobility Minister of the Federal Government Jean-Luc Crucke said at the beginning of March that European standards that apply to public contracts were respected and that the decision to keep CAF as a preferential bidder was unanimously taken by the SNCB Company Committee, consisting of representatives of all national political groups.
Source: EITB
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