Mota-Engil and Zagope compete for Metro’s Violet Line
The Mota Engil and Zagope construction consortiums have submitted estimates for the public tender to construct Lisbon Metro’s new Violet line.
According to business daily Negócios these were the only construction companies to show interest in the tender for the future light rail line between Loures and Odivelas.
The deadline for submitting tenders ended last Friday. A third company, Masterstylo Eletricidade & Telecomunicações, based in Matosinhos, also uploaded a tender on the public contract platform, but it is not known if this has anything to do with the €450 million light rail project.
The process is currently being studied by the jury, which will also have to decide which tenders are or are not valid. The proposed estimates are also not known, and the price criterion represents a 65% weighting in the award decision.
The two consortiums (Zagope and Mota Engil) are now fighting it out for the right to bag the contract for the Lisbon metro network expansion project.
Zagope, owned by the Brazilian group Andrade Gutierrez, won the tender for the first ‘lot’ of the circular line – the section between Rato and Santos – for €48.6 million.
Mota Engil, led by Carlos Mota dos Santos, together with Spie Batignolles, won the second ‘lot’ of the project to extend the Yellow and Green lines, between Santos and Cais do Sodré, for €73.5 million.
Zagope once again won, in consortium with Comsa, ‘lot’ four of the project for the construction of finishes and systems for €69.9 million, while the Mota Engil group netted the extension of the Red line between São Sebastião and Alcântara for €321.9 million.
The third ‘lot’ of the circular line, for the construction of new viaducts in Campo Grande, was awarded to the Teixeira Duarte and Somafel consortium for €19.5 million.
The construction of the new Violet line has a total estimated costing of €527.3 million, with €390 million coming from the Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP), in the form of a loan, and €137.3 million from the State Budget.
Initially, this overground metro between Loures and Odivelas had an estimated cost of €250 million, but the necessity of including viaducts and 3.3 kilometers of tunnel track, as well as the urban reorganisation works in the two municipalities and the costs of land expropriations bumped up the estimated cost.
