NewsWhore
11-26-2007, 03:50 PM
Diario Libre is questioning whether the recent tender held for the purchase of 300 public transport buses was custom designed to benefit a single supplier. The newspaper reports that the tender only accepted applications from companies with five years in the market (which eliminated competition from Scadom, the new Scania bus concessionaires), and the companies had to manufacture standard, buses for handicapped passengers, and accordion buses (which eliminated Volkwagen from bidding). The specifications also eliminated Volvo buses, according to Diario Libre. The newspaper points out that a Korean company (Hyundai?) chose not to tender after noting that the specifications appeared to have been drafted to favor Brazilian-manufactured buses.
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