Renfe has awarded the contract to supply its 15 new high-speed trains to Patentes Talgo for a total amount of 786,472,383 euros, including their maintenance for 30 years.
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(27/12/2016)
The price is 22.5 million euros each train set and 2.49 euros of maintenance per kilometre covered. Total contract value reaches 786.47 million euros, which is 28.2% below the tender price.
Talgo’s bids, the technical offer with 29.62 points and the economic one with 65, have reached a total of 94.62 points, which have made Talgo’s overall offer the highest rated both from the technical point of view and the economic one.
These trains will make it possible to meet a growing demand for high-speed services that has increased by 60% since 2013 as well as the one generated by the new lines under construction that will extend the network in the following years. The new vehicles will also help in the response to the liberalisation process of passenger services which, from 2020 on, will pose new challenges for the operator.
The trains
The new Avril trains are 12-car train sets, two of which will be ‘Preferente’ class, eight ‘Turista’ class and a restaurant car. They will be triple voltage sets and ten of them will feature French signalling system TVM and will reach a maximum speed of 330 km/h.
The trains will be interoperable, light units –the lightest on the market with 30% less weight than a standard train– and 25% more energy-efficient than the previous series of high-speed trains. They have a total passenger capacity of 521 seats and two wheelchairs, the standard configuration being 80% of the seats ‘Turista’ class (416 seats) and the remaining 20% ‘Preferente’ class (105 seats).
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