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The competitive tendering arranged by Pääkaupunkiseudun Junakalusto Oy - a company owned by the cities Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa and Kauniainen in the metropolitan area and VR Ltd - was started in autumn 2005 following the EU rules regarding public procurements. Seven tenders were received from five European rolling stock manufacturers in January 2006.
Junakalusto Oy will procure 32 new train units for the commuter traffic of YTV (Metropolitan Area Council). The two first train units are pre-series train units. The length of the procured train units is about 75 metres and the passenger capacity is about 250 seats/train unit. The first trains will be introduced into passenger service in the year 2009/2010 and they will stepwise replace VR's old Sm1 stock scrapping of which will start at that time. Last units will be delivered 2014.
Junakalusto Oy has carried out the final evaluation of the tenders after continued negotiations by using the evaluation criteria given in the invitation to tender: the total price, life cycle costs, level of train technology, innovativeness and abilities to co-operation and reliability to deliver.
On the basis of the evaluation and comparison carried out, Junakalusto Oy decided to procure the train units from Stadler Bussnang AG, who's tender had the best total economical advantageousness at the total price of 189 million euros excluding the ATC equipment for which a separate competitive tendering will be arranged at a later stage.
Junakalusto Oy has at the same time decided to make an agreement for financing the procurement with the Finnish branch of Handelsbanken Finans AB.
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586 visits 22.3.2004-31.3.2007. Note that we don't work for VR. Created Mon, Oct 6 1997 Kimmo Kotimäki. Updated Sat, Mar 31 2007 Kimmo Kotimäki.