Siemens Mobility has released its claimant’s note for its High Court challenge to the selection of the former Bombardier-Hitachi joint venture (now Hitachi-Alstom) as supplier of the HS2 rolling stock fleet. In parallel, the company is also seeking an injunction against the contract being awarded.
Commenting on the challenge, Siemens told Modern Railways: ‘We submitted a highly competitive bid to build Britain’s new HS2 trains, and raised a number of concerns with HS2 about how they came to the decision to appoint another bidder as lead tenderer. That’s why we’re challenging HS2’s decision in court and asking for injunction to stop the contracts being signed before the issues we’ve raised are resolved.’
Central to Siemens’ challenge is its claim that the Joint Venture failed to pass an ‘evaluation threshold’ in the three-stage quality evaluation, which included a series of scored tests. To pass to the commercial evaluation in Stage 5, a tender was required to meet or exceed the ‘Evaluation Thresholds’ for Stages 2 to 4.
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