City bikes in Lodz delayed – INFOR.pl

The city bikes built in Lodz delayed. The company, which won the tender, suspected of having falsified documents

The city of Lodz bike would not start – as previously announced – May 1 this year. The tender for the system of urban bike took off two companies – offer Nextbike however, was challenged as too cheap and BikeU in turn, is suspected of presenting counterfeit bank’s opinion. The Prosecutor’s Office conducted an investigation in this matter. Although the city does not rule out cooperation with this company, but even before the selection of a bid knew that the opinions expressed by it can be falsified. Meanwhile, in the light go further doubts about the documents submitted by the BikeU.

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– We are aware of the challenges , which is a project of Lodz City Bike. As an operator and supplier of 10 systems in Poland, we have the experience, knowledge and potential, and they are very important elements that affect the success of this type of project – declared in an interview with news agency Newseria Business Tomasz Wojtkiewicz, President Nextbike Poland.

Placed just last year tender for urban bike sharing system approach is the second boat to be put on the streets wheelers. To tender stood the two companies – Nextbike (operator and supplier of systems including Warsaw, Poznan, Wroclaw, Krakow and Sopot) and BikeU (system operator in Bielsko-Biala and Bydgoszcz). The latter company has a much more modest achievements on the Polish market rental unmanned, but aggressively trying to enter the market.

– The city bikes are reported in the budget of the project are civil in the previous edition. The assumed that it will be 100 stations in the strict downtown, where it will eventually 1000 bike, but is designed so that each private entity, company or eg. Shopping centers can attach to him by fetching their stations, while complementing and enriching offer This system – explains Bartosz cold from the Board of Roads and Transport in Lodz.

The decision, however, extended the invitation because of too low a price, which according to the National Board of Appeal was proposed Nextbike. The company wanted a contract with a boat less than 9 million zł – nearly 4 million zł less than BikeU.

Meanwhile, on offer BikeU proceedings leading up to the three prosecutors. Notification of suspected forgery of bank opinions by the company during the tender procedure by Lodz ZDiT, Nextbike and one of the banks.