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Bombardier, Alstom, Siemens heads visit Israel for rolling stock tender
Israel Railways is conducting a tender for the procurement of over 80 railway cars.
Hadas Manor 15 Dec 04 16:12
Representatives of global railway manufacturers Bombardier (TSX: BBD), Alstom (NYSE, LSE, XETRA: ALS), and Siemens (NYSE: SI; XETRA: SIE) will visit Israel tomorrow at the invitation of the Israel Export and International Cooperation Institute. The railway equipment makers are seeking to extend their cooperation with Israeli firms in order to fulfill the reciprocal procurement requirement stipulated in the Israel Railways tender.
Israel Railways is conducting a tender for the procurement of over 80 railway cars, with an option of bidding in another tender. Several of the global companies are also members of consortia taking part in the Tel Aviv and Jerusalem build, operate, transfer (BOT) light railway tenders.
The government plans to invest NIS 24 billion in railway infrastructure, car procurement, and accessory equipment, plus NIS 6 billion more on the Tel Aviv light railway project, by 2010.
Israel Export chairman Shraga Brosh said that agreements between the winner of the current tender and Israeli companies would yield contracts worth NIS 9 billion for Israeli industry, and create 20,000 jobs.
Bina Bar-On, director general of the Industrial Cooperation Authority, which is responsible for reciprocal procurement, told “Globes”, “This is the first time that Israel Railways has required in a tender, at the insistence of the Industrial Cooperation Authority, the submitting of a reciprocal plan that we have approved, as a condition for signing the final contract.”
Up until now, government contracts used the phrase “best effort” with regard to reciprocal procurement from Israeli industry.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes.co.il - on December 15, 2004