THE government will soon open a multibillion dollars’ tender for the procurement of 19 electric trains that will be used on the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR).
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July 13, 2018
In an interview with the Guardian, the Tanzania Railway Corporation executive director Masanja Kadogosa said so far more than forty local and international companies had shown interest for tender bidding.
He pointed out that the government has planned to spend $14.2 billion to build the 2,561km SGR running from Dar es Salaam to Mwanza on the shores of Lake Victoria and Kigoma on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in the next five years.
Upon completion, it is expected to connect the ports along the Indian Ocean to landlocked Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia.
The executive director said the process of reviewing them was over and anytime from now the tender will be opened to get the winner adding that procurement procedures were on the final stage too,” he said.
“I would like to assure all bidders that the process of getting the winner will be free and fair. We are finalizing the procurement procedures and when it is over the public will be informed,” he said.
“Our state -run railway firm – TRC is seeking the supply locomotives, 14 of which will be cargo trains or 19 electric trains to be used on the standard gauge railway (SGR) which is at present under construction,” he added.
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