Valec scheduled for September 9 the auction to purchase 95,400 tons of rails, material that will be 100% imported, since Brazil has no domestic manufacturer of that product. The steel ingots will be used to complete the southern extension of the North-South Railroad, in the stretch between the cities of Ouro Verde, in the state of Goiás, and Estrela D’Oeste, in the state of São Paulo.
The bid was divided into three lots, and the interested companies must submit their proposals and qualifications until September 2. The estimated value for each lot is $60.81 million, totaling approximately $182.39 million.
The judging criteria adopted will be the lowest overall price for each lot. All material must be delivered at the port of Santos, in São Paulo. The deadline for complete delivery of each lot is nine months. The Valec’s forecast is signing the agreements until mid-October.
Each 31,800-ton lot should be delivered in three shipments. The schedule of Valec provides that the first shipment arrives at the port of Santos within 90 days after signing the agreement, i.e., between December and January 2014. A budget of $30.22 million has been reserved by the state-owned company to fund the first deliveries expected to occur this year.
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A second bid will be held by the state-owned company still in the second half, for the acquisition of the rails that will be used in the construction of the East-West Integration Railroad (Fiol), planned to connect the city of Ilhéus, in Bahia coast, to Figueirópolis (state of Tocantins), passing through the backcountry of the state of Bahia.
Since the beginning of the year, Valec faces enormous difficulty for bidding the rails, because of legal questions and the Brazilian Court of Audit (TCU) questions, related to two bids previously performed by the state-owned company. Both were revoked by the state-owned company.
The delay in the purchase of rails undertakes the progress of Valec’s works. In the last three months, the company even negotiated the possibility of borrow 40,000 tons of rails from Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN), which manages works of the Transnordestina railroad, in the state of Pernambuco. Valec, however, withdrew from the agreement.
According to the CEO of the state-owned company, Josias Cavalcante, there was no technical compatibility between the rail used in the Transnordestina and the one designed to support the North-South Railroad. “The rails continue to be our main bottleneck,” he said.
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