Lviv enterprise "Electron" disputes the contract signed by Kyiv with "Tatra-Yug" for the supply of 20 new trams
In February 2021, based on the results of an international tender conducted according to the procedures of the European Investment Bank, a contract was signed between KP "Kyivpastrans" and the Ukrainian company "Tatra-Yug" contract for the supply of 20 low-floor trams.
In addition to "Tatra-Yug" and "Electron" (Electronmash plant), the Belarusian enterprise - OJSC "Upravyalushchaya company of holding "Belkommunmash"" participated in the tender. The winner of the tender was "Tatra-Yug", which offered to install 20 trams for the amount of the tender, while its rivals - "Electron" and "Belkommunmash" - 14 and 10 trams, respectively.
However, the loser in the tender "Electron" filed a complaint with the European Investment Bank, and learned that the European Investment Bank approved the results of the tender, filed a claim with the Economic Court. The court denied "Electron" the claim in full, but even this did not establish Lviv residents. Now "Electron" has filed an appeal against the court's decision to the Northern Commercial Court of Appeal.
"Electron" is trying to accuse "Tatra-Yug" of too low a price for a tram car, as well as the lack of necessary experience to fulfill the contract. Despite the fact that the people of Lviv themselves started the production of trams only in 2013, and "Tatra-Yug" twenty years earlier, during this time they produced more than 150 tram cars of various designs, including low-floor ones, and also fulfilled an export contract for Egypt .
"Electron" wants to obtain a court decision to annul the victory of "Tatra-Yug" and to award the victory to itself, as a participant who took second place and offered 6 cars less for the same amount. It should be noted that the company "Tatra-Yug" has already started production under this contract, and the first car has already successfully passed the run-in and certification at the plant in Dnipro.
Thus, now it depends on the court's decision how many cars Kyiv will receive — that is, "Electron" can simply "steal" six new trams from the city... There is also a risk that this project will be frozen altogether and Kyiv will not receive anything. And this despite the fact that the mayor of Kyiv, Vitaliy Klitschko, has repeatedly stated that the quality of "Electronmash" cars is very low, and the trams already purchased by the city "stand and rot in the depot for months."
