Contracting Entity (The Owners):

The Danish Government, The Capital Region of Denmark and 11 municipalities (Lyngby-Taarbæk, Gladsaxe, Herlev, Rødovre, Glostrup, Albertslund, Brøndby, Høje-Taastrup, Hvidovre, Vallensbæk, Ishøj) have agreed to construct a Light Rail on Ring 3 and formed the partnership ‘Hovedstadens Letbane’.

Formally ‘Ring 3 Letbane I/S’ will be the contracting entity. After a construction law is passed in the Parliament the name will be changed to Hovedstadens Letbane (HL).

The Project:

The ‘Letbane på Ring 3’ will have 28 stations on a 28 kilometre double track from Lundtofte in the North to Ishøj in the South.

Frequent services at 5 minute intervals on weekdays make the light rail an attractive public transport solution.

The light rail is expected to carry 13 000 000-14 000 000 passengers a year. The number may increase to 17 000 000-18 000 000, as the area along the line gradually develops.

Contract Structure:

The contract structure will be:

A. 5 contracts for Civil Works including roads, bridges and other complex structures,

B. 1 contract for Transportation System (TS) including Stations, Substations and CMC (CMC Building contractor as nominated subcontractor, cf. below). The TS contractor will be subcontractor to the O&M contractor for part of the maintenance,

C. 1 contract for Control and Maintenance Centre (CMC) Building (the contractor will be transferred to the TS Contractor as a nominated subcontractor),

D. 1 contract for Operation and Maintenance (O&M). The TS contractor will be subcontractor for part of the maintenance.

Further information on the project and the contract structure is available in the document ‘Information About the Public Procurement Process’ (hereinafter referred to as ‘infodocument’), which can be downloaded from www.bascon.dk/da/udbud

Present Contract Notice:

The present contract notice comprises the CMC Building Contract.

Scope of Work in the CMC Building Contract:

The contract includes a turnkey contract for construction of a Control and Maintenance Centre (CMC), for the light rail system. The Centre is to be located west of Ring 3 and north of Ballerup Boulevard.

This contract is part of the overall construction of the light rail system. The project comprises the construction of the Control Centre with a gross floor area of approximately 7 500 m2.

The building will house facilities for the preparation of the light rail system including washing facilities and workshops.

In addition, the Control and Maintenance Centre includes a control room for monitoring the light rail operation as well as an emergency control room, which at the same time should be able to function as a training facility.

Hence the building will house a large number of technical installations. In addition, the building will hold administrative premises including offices, kitchen, canteen and locker rooms with shower facilities.

The design and build contract also includes clearing of the site, site development, retaining walls and outdoor installations such as parking spaces but not railway specific installations such as track and overhead line system. However, the sub structure for the track will be part of the Building Contract.

The design and build contract does not include specialist LRV maintenance equipment, which is part of the scope of work for the TS Contractor.