Lisbon Metro receives four bids for violet line extension to Loures

On Tuesday, Metropolitano de Lisboa received four bids for the design and construction of the Odivelas-Loures light rail system, which has a base price of €600 million, the transport company announced on Wednesday.

Metropolitano de Lisboa launched the tender for the Violet Line contract on 15 April, with a base price of €600 million, plus VAT.

MasterStylo – Eletricidade e Telecomunicações, Lda and Mota Engil, Engenharia e Construção, S.A./Zagope – Construções e Engenharia, S.A./Spie Batignolles Internacional – Sucursal em Portugal submitted the bids.

Teixeira Duarte – Engenharia e Construções, S.A./Casais – Engenharia e Construção, S.A./Tecnovia – Sociedade de Empreitadas, S.A./E.P.O.S. – Empresa Portuguesa de Obras Subterrâneas, S.A./Somafel submitted proposals as well – Engenharia e Obras Ferroviárias, S.A./Jayme da Costa – Energia E Sistemas, S.A. and FCC Construcción, S.A./Contratas y Ventas, S.A.U./Comsa, S.A.U./Comsa Instalaciones Y Sistemas Industriales, S.A.U./Fergrupo – Construções Técnicas e Ferroviarias, S.A. also presented proposals.

“We will disclose the values of the submitted bids after the legal deadline for deciding on any complaints about the list of bidders”, said Metro de Lisboa in a statement.

According to the company, the “public tender is intended for the contracting of various components of the project, such as the design and construction of the Light Rail System infrastructure and the surrounding urban redevelopment, the preparation of all studies for the public utility expropriation proceedings and the supply of vehicles”.

The implementation of the Lisbon Metro network expansion plan includes this investment, and the project is expected to be completed in 2029.

The Violet Line, 11.5 kilometres long, will have 17 stations: nine in the municipality of Loures (serving the parishes of Loures, Santo António dos Cavaleiros and Frielas, over a length of approximately 6.4 kilometres) and eight in the municipality of Odivelas (serving the parishes of Póvoa de Santo Adrião and Olival de Basto, Odivelas, Ramada and Caneças), over a total length of approximately 5.1 kilometres.

The stations will be of different types, with 12 above ground, three underground and two in a cutting.

The first public tender for the Violet Line contract was launched on 15 March 2024, and the evaluation process resulted in no bids being submitted by economic operators, as they exceeded the base price of the tender by an average of approximately 46%.

“In this context, we updated the investment cost to reflect the price increases that occurred between the completion of the preliminary study (in 2023) and the estimated start date of the new public procurement procedure for the contract, increasing the total investment cost of €150.2 million”, the note said.