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Publish Date : 19-Aug-2015

For the second government bus tender, The Land Transport Authority (LTA) has received 10 bids. The winning bidder will be responsible to run 25 bus routes in the Punggol and Pasir Ris area under the Loyang package. Out of the total bids, three were submitted by local firms, four by foreign players and three by joint ventures.

Awarding of the tender is expected during the fourth quarter of this year. The firm winning the contract will have to start running the 25 services - three new routes and 22 currently operated by SBS Transit - from the second half of next year.

SBS Transit, SMRT and Woodlands Transport are the local bidders, while the foreign bidding companies are Busways (Australia), Keolis (France), RATP Dev Transdev Asia (RDTA) (France) and Go-Ahead (Britain). The JVs are Travel GSH (Singapore) and Jiaoyun Group Corp (China); Kok Tong Transport & Engineering Works (Singapore) and Jinan Public Transportation Corp (China); and Tian San Shipping (Singapore) and Kumho Construction & Engineering (South Korea).

All the firms participated in the first tender, with the exception of the Tian San-Kumho consortium and Kok Tong, which is now teaming up with Jinan.

New bidder Tian San's business development director Mark Ko said, "Kumho is the biggest express bus company in Korea... while Tian San has been established in Singapore for 45 years. We bring the best of both worlds to this bid."

A spokesman for Go-Ahead, speaking regarding its chances, stated that, We believe that our experience in the UK, operating under a similar contracting model in high-density urban areas, stands us in good stead in Singapore.

However, Singapore's Aedge Holdings and London-based firm Tower Transit are missing from the bidders list this time.

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