Court dismisses BTSC’s petition on Orange Line

The Central Management Court has terminated a petition submitted by Bangkok Mass Transit System Plc (BTSC) seeking an injunction to postpone the current round associated with bidding for the directly to jointly invest in Orange colored Line’s western extension project.

The court rejected the petition on Monday, reasoning there was no audio rationale to put on contain the ongoing bidding of the Bang Khun Non-Min Buri extension of the Orange Line, as the requested suspension from the project would price about 41. twenty six million baht per day in the project’s expenses of so-called proper care of work.

BTSC had last month petitioned the court to suspend this second round of bidding from the project and order the Mass Quick Transit Authority of Thailand (MRTA) to bring back the 2020 version of both terms of research (ToR) and request just for proposal (RFP) at first used in the first circular of bidding.

The courtroom had earlier final month ruled in favour of BTSC, saying the MRTA’s decision upon Feb 3 in order to scrap the first round of bidding, that the BTSC took component in, was a muslim.

In addition to cancelling the first circular, the MRTA also sent out an invites to tender below revised terms, which led to the legal action by the BTSC.

And following last month’s judgment, the BTSC petitioned the court to suspend the current circular of bidding.

Previously upon July 27, 2 prospective contenders submitted their proposals for your called joint investment decision in the western Orange colored Line extension project, said a source. Both parties were Bangkok Expressway and City Plc, and ITD Group, said the same source, adding that later last Mon, the bid choice committee had currently begun examining the particular qualifications of both contenders.

And since the courtroom has dismissed BTSC’s petition against the putting in a bid process, the bid selection committee now is expected to move on to the next step of the putting in a bid process, said the origin.

The second step deals generally with examining both parties’ technical capability to implement the electric rail project, stated the source.