The Infrastructure of Portugal (IP) has launched the tender of the contract overall modernization of the section Covilhã/Guarda, Beira Baixa line, with a base price of 65 million euros.
the announcement of The public tender was published on Tuesday, December 27, in the Journal of the Republic, by setting a deadline for the execution of the contract of 540 days, or about a year and a half.
In the ad, the IP states that with this intervention is intended to “reopen to rail traffic on electric traction, the stretch of Covilhã-Guarda, with 46 km of extension, with the hiring of the contract overall modernisation”.
The deadline for the submission of proposals is 76 days, from the date of this Monday, being the award criterion the most economically advantageous tender.
This Tuesday, the IP displays in the Guard, in a ceremony attended by the minister for Planning and Infrastructure, Pedro Marques, the modernization plan of the section Covilhã-Guard, and the draft agreement that saw the Beira Alta Line.
The intervention in the Beira Baixa Line, an investment of about € 65 million, includes the complete overhaul of 36 miles of track and electrification of the railway that makes the link between the cities of Guarda and Covilhã, is disabled since 2009.
According to the IP, the intervention also integrates, among other works, the rehabilitation of six bridges centuries old, the refurbishment of three stations and apeadeiros, drainage and slope stabilization and the automation and elimination of level crossings.
As to the concordance between the Lines of the Beira Alta and Beira Baixa, is planned the construction of a road with 1,500 metres in the vicinity of the Guard, which will include a railway viaduct over the river Says. Both rail lines investments are expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2019.
The minister Pedro Marques assured in September in the Parliament that by the end of this year would be launched the tender for the section between Covilhã and Guarda.
The Plan the Railroad to 2020 envisages an overall investment of € 2.7 billion in the sector until 2020. The State Budget for 2017 points to an investment of 100 million euros in rail in the next year, doubling the execution scheduled for 2016.
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