Saudi Arabia’s Public Transport Authority (PTA) has extended the prequalification deadline for the contract to privatize mainline freight and passenger services, MEED reported.
Firms now have until February 23 to express interest and respond to a prequalification questionnaire (PQQ) for the contract to provide operations and maintenance (O&M) services to the country’s main railway networks.
The initial deadline for submission was January 19.
The O&M services sought are split into three modules: infrastructure management, passenger operations and freight operations.
According to the PQQ document, companies can request to be prequalified for one or multiple modules of the privatization process.
The request for proposals (RFP) will likely be released in Q1 2018.
The contracts pertain to the existing Riyadh to Dammam network and the current North-to-South Railway, and could potentially include schemes that are being planned – such as the GCC rail line and the Saudi Landbridge project, the report said.
Haramain High-Speed Railway is not part of this scheme.
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