Bogdan Motors automobile company has been recognized as the winner of a tender for the purchase of 100 new low-floor buses in Lviv under the Ukraine Urban Public Transport program funded by the European Investment Bank (EIB), Bogdan Corporation spokesman Serhiy Krasulia has said.
“On April 15, 2020, tenders for the purchase of 100 buses were opened in Lviv. Five participants submitted proposals, but Bogdan Motors’ price offer for Bogdan A70132 buses was recognized as the best. Now the tender committee, together with EIB experts, is studying the submitted documentation. Bogdan hopes that an agreement will be signed soon and the plant will start manufacturing buses,” he told Interfax-Ukraine.
Krasulia said that Electron (Lviv), UkrEuroMAZ, Modern Trucks (dealers of the Belarusian MAZ) and Otokar (Turkey) also participated in the tender, but price offers were not disclosed.
“Lviv’s choice of a Ukrainian bus manufacturer is, first of all, loading the capacities of the corporation’s plant in Lutsk and the ability to pay wages, including support for workers during quarantine related to coronavirus,” the spokesman emphasized.
At the same time, he recalled that the corporation has repeatedly appealed to Ukrainian authorities with offers of support domestic manufacturers of auto and electric vehicles, whose capacities can fully satisfy the country’s needs for modern urban transport.
