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Orange Line bidding contest scrapped

The Mass Rapid Transit Authority activates a tunnel-boring machine for the eastern section of the Orange Line under Ramkhamhaeng Road in Bang Kapi district, Bangkok, in March last year. (Photo: Somchai Poomlard)

Bidding has been cancelled for the western section of the Orange Line in Bangkok, running from the Thailand Cultural Centre to Bang Khun Non area, after a legal dispute over bid criteria.

The contractor selection committee of the Bangkok’s east-west electric railway project made the decision on Wednesday.

The Mass Rapid Transit Authority, the project owner, said that a legal dispute on the project was no closer to resolution and thus blocked it from setting a timeframe for the selection of the contractor. That could delay the selection and affect the whole Orange Line.

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