VILNIUS (AFX) - Alstom SA said it has filed a complaint in a Lithuanian court objecting to the award of a 100 mln eur locomotives contract by the country's railway operator, Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai, to Siemens AG.
"We want the results to be reviewed as we think that not all our proposals were taken into account," Viktoras Karaliunas, head of Alstom's subsidiary in Lithuania, told Agence France Presse.
Bombardier of Canada was also bidding for the contract to supply 34 locomotives, part of a major modernisation project by Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai that includes plans to invest about 130 million eur this year.
"We think that our price was lower than proposed by other participants in the tender, and we had no possibility to know what were the other arguments," Karaliunas added.
The court temporarily suspended the tender offer, but did not set a date to hear Alstom's objection.
newsdesk@afxnews.com
afp/js/ec
For more information and to contact AFX: www.afxnews.com and www.afxpress.com
"We want the results to be reviewed as we think that not all our proposals were taken into account," Viktoras Karaliunas, head of Alstom's subsidiary in Lithuania, told Agence France Presse.
Bombardier of Canada was also bidding for the contract to supply 34 locomotives, part of a major modernisation project by Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai that includes plans to invest about 130 million eur this year.
"We think that our price was lower than proposed by other participants in the tender, and we had no possibility to know what were the other arguments," Karaliunas added.
The court temporarily suspended the tender offer, but did not set a date to hear Alstom's objection.
newsdesk@afxnews.com
afp/js/ec
For more information and to contact AFX: www.afxnews.com and www.afxpress.com
© 2005 AFX News
