The process with the Chinese from Crc and Astra, resting on the wallpaper
The Bucharest Court of Appeal set a deadline for the process for four years ago by the Chinese producer CRRC at the purchase tender of 20 to 37 interregional electrical frames.
The resumption of the process in which both CRRC and ASTRA are petitioners, and ARF and Alstom are responded, it comes after the last months the Court of Justice of the European Union has pronounced a favorable decision to the Asian producer. The decision said that the Romanian state could not exclude by law a producer from outside the European Union because the policy in the field of public procurement is a centralized one at the national level. At most the contracting authority, in this case, could take into account the origin of the manufacturer based on a score part of the offer evaluation grid.
Surprise decision of the European Court of Justice
Sources within the legal dispute states that In May 2025 it will be judged in as Bucharest The request of CRRC to annul the CNSC decision that the Chinese offer was rejected on the basis of GEO 25/2021, given by the government of Florin Cîțu.
Subsequently, CRRC can open another action in which to ask for the payment of the activities to carry out the offer, that of the legal representation or even the payment of the unrealized profit. In this last case, considering that the value of the contract for delivery of frames and assurance of maintenance can reach 748 million euros Damage could properly reach tens of millions of euros.
Astra wagons – CRRC wins in front of Firea
In November 2021, the Romanian-Chinese Association Astra Vagoane Călatori-CRRC filed an appeal at the purchase tender of 20 to 40 interregional trains, invoking the fact that its exclusion is inapplicable and was elaborated one year after the third attempt to exclude it from its tender.
The appeal says that the authority for the railway reform made the decision to exclude CRRC Sifang – Astra based on an « inapplicable normative act, to which he tried to offer retroactive effects ».
This is the mentioned GEO elaborated by the Cîțu Government of which Cătălin Drulă, the Minister of Transport at that time.
Contract signed three years ago, with 2024 term
In March 2022 the purchase contract for interregional electric frames (RE-IR) was concluded between the authority for rail reform, as a contracting authority and Alstom Ferroviaria SPA, as a supplier.
