The Contracting Authority is planning a successive overhaul of the engines of 25 LINT 41 train sets, each containing 2 engines, over the duration of approximately 24 months beginning in November 2012.

Each successive overhaul shall be completed in three weeks. Accordingly, please note that it will be a contractual requirement that deliveries take place successively as each train set is disassembled. A time plan will appear from the tender documents. Reference is also made to Section III.1.4 of this Contract Notice.

The Contracting Authority will itself perform disassembly and assembly of the engines, and is tendering a number of service and supply contracts necessary for the overhaul.

This contract notice covers the service contracts; a parallel tender is being held for the supply contracts.

The contracts/lots under this contract notice concerns:

— Overhaul of engines (incl. air compressors),

— Overhaul of transmissions,

— Overhaul of hydraulic cooling systems,

— Overhaul of systems.

A more detailed description of each service can be found in Annex B.