Bombardier group wins $1.44B Sao Paulo contract
Written by William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-ChiefBombardier Transportation and two consortium partners announced Monday that they will design, deliver, and install a $1.44 billion, 18-mile BOMBARDIER INNOVIA Monorail 300 system that will serve as an extension of the Sao Paulo Metro Line 2. Bombardier’s share of the contract is $818 million.
Known as Expresso Tiradentes, the line will be able to transport 40,000 passengers per hour per direction between the Vila Prudente and Cidade Tiradentes urbanizations. A journey that now takes almost two hours will be cut to approximately 50 minutes, benefiting 500,000 users daily.
The consortium is led the Brazilian contractor Queiroz Galvao and incorporates construction firm Construtora OAS, with Bombardier as electrical and mechanical equipment supplier. Bombardier will design and supply 17 stations and 54 seven-car trains as well as providing project management, systems engineering and integration, testing, and commissioning for the new trains and signaling.
Manufacture of the initial cars will be carried out by Bombardier in Pittsburgh and subsequent cars will be built in Brazil at Bombardier’s plant in Hortolandia. Phase One of the system is expected to open for passenger service by 2014.
