A new international tender is reportedly being prepared by the relevant transports and infrastructure ministry – i.e. the central government – for the mass transit bus systems of greater Athens and Thessaloniki, OASA and OAS.Th, respectively, a week after a similar tender by the previous SYRIZA government was scrapped, naftemporiki.gr reports.
According to media sources, the new tender will involve the purchase of 1,000 buses, with a budget of 500 million euros envisioned.
A major factor in the state procurement will be the level of financing that will be achieved through the National Strategic Reference Framework and through borrowing from the European Investment Bank (EIB).
The former government had unveiled an urgent tender to purchase 750 buses for 461 million euros.
Some 600 to 700 of the new buses to be purchased, assuming the tender proceeds, are expected to be electric or hybrids vehicles.
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