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NS at the end of the tendering procedure for the delivery of high-speed trains in breach of procurement law, ultimately AnsaldoBreda remained. The second party, the French train manufacturer Alstom was therefore in the final chance, while they could supply trains which were already employed elsewhere in Europe and met.
This emerged during the hearing, the parliamentary committee of inquiry, by Meindert Eland, who at the time led the negotiations on behalf of Alstom with NS. Alstom, also the producer of the French TGV trains, still considered to litigate against the decision to award the construction of the new trains to AnsaldoBreda, but found that because the company was also in the race for the supply to the NS new Sprinter. Alstom NS did not offend.
Alstom launch new bid was unacceptable
In December 2003 yielded AnsaldoBreda and Alstom in their final offer. A few days later, Alstom told that the company had to make a new bid, the number of producing trains was reduced from 19 to 14. For the French, this was unacceptable, partly because that number was too low to provide the necessary technology . Alstom did not withdraw from the contract, but left the NS managed to hold on to the tendering procedures agreed beforehand. A conversation about this, in January 2014, did not succeed.
The bid Alstom released in December 2003, the company has cost 5 million euros to tender operations. So there had to be answered 1,100 questions in June 2003, which also had to be further translated from French to Dutch. But to this day knows Eland why that bid was rejected:
“We are asked to provide, for a final bid (‘final offer’) from to spend, but I do not have the idea that the NS latter bid has actually weighed. We do not know whether we are judged. “
‘No level playing field for both parties’
AnsaldoBreda, the competitor’s bid or changed after it was definitively released. At the request of the NS would have AnsaldoBreda containing the speed will increase to 250 kilometers per hour. Alstom is not asked at that stage. AnsaldoBreda also knew that the preference of the train went out to enkeldekstreinen while Anstom had bet on double-decker. “At that time there was no longer a level playing field for both parties,” said Eland. He only learned last week during the interrogation which had a bid with single deck preferred by the NS.
Eland incidentally knew from the beginning of the procedure that there were four bidders. On the day the bids were due, he walked around near the building where it had to happen. On the vehicles, number plates and dozens of boxes that had to be carried in (the bids were due bilingual), he could find out who the other bidders.
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