The RFP for car delivery needs to be very specific. 1. Change orders both Amtrak and builder 2.Vendor requirements 3. Work stoppages 4. guarantee builder will hire enough workers 5. Penalties for late delivery and late specs from Amtrak. 6. Transparency in contract terms and requirements 7. Open monthly reports 9. Reliability penalties 10. Not necessary lowest builder but reliability to meet other contracts considered. 11.. More from other posters ? 12. problems with deliveries from other countries due to trade war hold ups. Example UP's delivery of rail from Japan.
Last edited by east point on Thu Sep 06, 2018 10:26 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Also any currency fluctuations such as might result from a trade war; ie Amtrak wouldn’t have to pay more if the yuan (euro, yen, Canadian dollar, whatever) becomes stronger against the USD.
My only concern is if this becomes strictly a 1:1 replacement.
Hopefully when the money gets budgeted, they end up doing an order of like 125/year for a minimum of 5 years and more like 6 years.
As I've said before too, my guess is they'll probably retire at a slightly slower than 1:1 ratio for awhile. i.e. probably for every 100 they get, retire the worst 50 or so.
But in any case, Hope the money is found and this happens... soon.
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Noticed it’s “75 train sets or the equivalent number of cars” in the press release. I dunno, I suppose Alstom could bid with a non-tilting set of Avelia cars?