MRTA scraps Orange Line bidding
Legal dispute ties up western section
published :
4 Feb 2021 at 04:00
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Bidding for the construction of the western section of the MRT's Orange Line, which will run from the Thailand Cultural Centre to Bang Khun Non, has been cancelled following a legal dispute.
The decision was taken yesterday by the contractor selection committee of the Mass Rapid Transit Authority (MRTA), the project owner.
The MRTA said it had indefinitely postponed the process to pick a contractor because the dispute on the bidding criteria was still far from resolved.
The western section of the Orange Line was designed to run underground for 13.4 kilometres to link the centre of Bangkok to the capital's western suburbs.