August 17 (SeeNews) - Bulgarian state-owned railways company BDZ Passengers opened a 675 million levs ($393.7 million/345.1 million euro) tender for the supply of 42 passenger railcars, it said on Friday.
The assignment also calls for technical support for a period of 15 years, BDZ said in a public procurement notice.
The deadline for submitting offers in the tender is October 12. Bids will be ranked according to price and quality criteria.
Last month, Bulgaria's transport ministry opened a tender for awarding a 35-year concession contract for the operation of Sofia International Airport and said it will use part of the proceeds from the concession to finance indebted BDZ. The estimated value of the concession contract is 3.9 billion euro, the ministry said.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)