The government said yesterday it will not obey a ruling by the city’s top court according to which it would need to reassess the rival quotations submitted by seven bidders in a public tender for the construction of the depot of the Light Rail Transit (LRT) system.
The Court of Final Appeal (TUI) last month also ordered the government to “carry out tasks in line with the ruling.”
Yesterday’s statement by the government said that its decision was based on the Administrative Procedure Litigation Code, pointing out that the annulment of the depot construction tender would have a “big impact” on the construction schedule of the LRT project’s Taipa section, which would “gravely harm the public interest.”
Two Light Rail Transit (LRT) train carriages are delivered to the under-construction LRT depot in Cotai in May. Photo: GIT
