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The tender: Talgo wins tecnnical and financial evaluations
On 10 November 2015, the Board of Directors of Renfe Viajeros approved Talgo’s bid in this tender for the
acquisition of up to thirty new high-speed and high-capacity trains and their maintenance for a minimum period
of thirty years with the option to be extended for another ten years.
The initial bidding price set by Renfe for the first block of 15 trains, including their maintenance for 40 years was
of €1,401 million, while both blocks (15+15 trains) plus 40-years of maintenance amounted to €2,642 million.
Fifteen trains have been bought initially along with their
Technical evaluation maintenance during three full decades, although Renfe
could acquire 15 additional units in three different 5-unit
Bid Alternative tranches in the following 4 years.
Alstom 25.145 24.517
CAF 22.616 - In a public event Renfe announced the technical and
Patentes Talgo 28.114 29.616 financial evaluation of the seven bids that were finally
Siemens 21.840 21.572 submitted in the tender, one from CAF and two from
Alstom, Siemens and Talgo.
In the technical section each of the bids could obtain a
maximum of 35 points and the Talgo proposals were the ones that obtained the highest scores, followed by the
two from Alstom, the one from CAF and, finally, the two from Siemens.
In order to assess the financial bids, with which tenderers could obtain a maximum of 65 points, the price of
fifteen trains was analysed, the installation of French TVM signalling equipment in ten of them, and the cost of
homologation in France.
Their maintenance over thirty years was also assessed, with a discount rate of 6%, repairs, cleaning and the
number of seats included, plus a correction factor of 0.7 points for use. In addition, for the first time in a tender
of this type, energy consumption over thirty years was assessed.

Financial evaluation

Alstom Alstom CAF Talgo Talgo Siemens Siemens
Alternative Alternative Alternative
Price (total 15 trains) (MEUR) 493.50 470.72 321.29 337.12 337.50 469.95 469.95
Price per train (MEUR) 32.9 31.38 21.42 22.47 22.5 31.33 31.33
Maint. (total 15 trains, 30 years) (MEUR) 602.35 602.35 549.55 448.97 448.97 601.08 601.08
Maint. for each train (Euros/train-km) 3.346 3.346 3.053 2.494 2.494 3.339 3.339
Total train purchase and Maint. (MEUR) 1,095.85 1,073.07 870.84 786.09 786.50 1,071.03 1,071.03
Declared energy consumption (kWh/km) 13.40 13.45 15.77 13.83 13.75 12.85 12.85
Number of seats 608 650 487 521 521 516 548
Availability in % 98 98 91.15 99.09 99.09 94 94
Warranty in years 5 5 5 5 5 3 3
Financial value (Euros/seat in useful life) 166,821 156,542 158,730 137,768 137,693 183,350 176,261

With all these parameters, a financial value was obtained,
Total evaluation (technical and financial) with a pre-established formula that is adjusted to the
price per seat of each train in its entire useful life. That
Bid Alternative figure was the financial value expressed in euros, which is
Alstom 78.8 81.3 used to calculate the number of points over 65 that each
CAF 79 - of the bids submitted would obtain.
Patentes Talgo 93.1 94.4 This award system, with public opening of tenders,
Siemens 70.7 72.3 common in large international tenders was used for
the first time at Renfe. It was also a new feature that the
tender evaluated the cost of the whole life cycle of the
trains by introducing factors such as consumption, capacity and use or availability.

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