Tenders Invited for Management, Maintenance and Cleansing of Public Transport Interchanges

Transport Department is now inviting tenders for two agreements for the management, maintenance and cleansing of public transport interchanges.

The successful tenderer will be required to take up the following duties:

	the management, including routine patrolling and inspection, operation of the control room and telephone hotline, handling of complaints, enquiries and suggestion made by users of the public transport interchanges, and attending to emergency incidents occurred in the public transport interchanges;
	the routine maintenance, including interiors, and other facilities/equipment installed therein;
	the cleansing of roads, bays, footpaths, walls, ceiling and columns; and
	the design, installation and maintenance of passenger information display panels, signs and maps erected/displayed at the public transport interchanges and updating of passenger information.

The duration of the agreements shall be three years commencing April 14, 2002 or on a date as the Government shall specify.

Under no circumstances will a tenderer be awarded both agreements.

A notice of tender invitation is published in the Government Gazette today (November 23, 2001). Interest parties may obtain the tender documents starting from today during office hours at the Business Management Section of Transport Department at Room 3404, 34th Floor, Immigration Tower, 7 Gloucester Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong.

Tenders must be clearly marked with the tender reference and the subject of the tender on the outside of the envelope (but should not bear any indication which may relate the tender to the tenderer) addressed to the Chairman, Central Tender Board and placed in the Government Secretariat Tender Box situated in the lift lobby on the lower ground floor of the Central Government Offices (East Wing), 20 Lower Albert Road, Hong Kong before 12:00 noon on Friday, January 4, 2002. Late tenders will not be accepted.

This tender is covered by the Agreement on Government Procurement of the World Trade Organization.

End/Friday, November 23, 2001