€2 billion French rail choice
Preferred bidder status for a railway bypass around Nîmes and Montpellier in France has gone to a consortium made up of Bouygues Construction (lead firm Bouygues Travaux Publics plus DTP Terrassement), Colas (Colas Rail and Colas Midi-Méditerranée), Alstom Transport, Spie batignolles, and financial investors Meridiam and Fideppp.
The choice of the preferred bidder was made by French rail infrastructure manager Réseau Ferré de France (RFF), which said the €2 billion infrastructure project would be the first high-speed line for use both by freight and passenger trains. It is scheduled for commissioning in 2017.
The public-private partnership (PPP) deal for a 25-year term involves the design, financing, construction, operation, servicing and maintenance of a new shared-track rail infrastructure for freight and passenger trains between the southern French cities of Nîmes and Montpellier.
Some 60 km of track will be main line and 20 km will be connecting track.
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