CDA opens financial bids for Islamabad's feeder routes bus project.

ISLAMABAD -- The first batch of 75 out of total 150 buses to ply on multiple feeder routes of the capital are expected to be on road in March 2023 as the Capital Development Authority opened the financial proposals in this regard on Thursday. Two companies M/s Faisal Movers and M/s Daewoo Express are in the running as earlier they had been declared successful in their technical evaluation for this project and now their financial proposals are being evaluated through a consultant hired by the civic authority for the project. Sources told this scribe that each company proposed their own type of buses to be run on the roads of Islamabad. A company proposed to operate diesel hybrid buses while the other wants to bring electric buses on the road. However, a final decision is made once evaluation of their financial proposals would be done. It is expected that the consultant would take about a week to complete the financial evaluation of their bids and after that its recommendations will be tabled before CDA board for a final decision to award the contract to a successful bidder. The CDA had called the bids to operate 8.5 meter long 150 buses on different routes of the capital linking them with the already operational metro bus system in the city. The project is divided into two phases as the successful bidder will be bound to operationalise 75 buses in four months as part of phase one while rest of the 75 buses would be operated in next two months. The contract to run the buses would be awarded to the successful bidder on the basis of per...