Distrito Federal’s Metrô hired two consultancy companies with R$ 5,26 million in order to elaborate a new master plan for the transport in the capital city. The partnership between Logit and Tecton will have 24 months in order to present the document and a research about urban mobility in the capital city.
The organ said it saved R$ 300 thousand if compared to the bidding estimations, which were equivalent to R$ 5,56 million. The agreement corresponds to six times the value that was paid for Logit and Logitrans in order to prepare the bidding of the bus basins between 2010 and 2011. The partnership Logit-Logitrans was hired for US$ 476,8 thousand (R$ 874,5 thousand) in June 2010, when the dollar was rated in R$ 1,834.
Metrô CEO, Marcelo Dourado, says the value is justified by the originality of the new project. “This plan doesn’t exist anywhere. Its range area is not restricted to DF, it is related to Ride [Development Integrated Region, created in 2001, which includes 21 cities of the state of Goiás and Minas Gerais]. There are more than 1,2 million people that live in other cities and commute everyday to Brasília”, he says.
Accordingly to Dourado, the idea is to use the railway lines that already exist in those directions in order to widen track transportation.
The delivery of the Rail Transport Master Plan (PDTT) in 2017 might coincide with the conclusion expected for the Metrô ‘s expansion in Samambaia, Ceilândia, Asa Sul and Asa Norte.
“Those projects in course are a result of PDTU [Urban Transport Master Plan]. Those were processes that were paralyzed, with resources placed in the Federal Government. They should have already been made. The novelty is an integrated network of LRTs, which might also be concluded in the same period”, states Dourado.
Plan under reform
The Metrô ‘s CEO says the PDTT may “refurbish” the plan elaborated five years ago, but also says this is not the main objective of the contract. “Those are origin and destination studies that will define the whole mobility flow. Of course PDTU may serve as a subside; yet PDTT is an innovative project.”
According to Dourado, urban mobility specialists highlight the railway modal as the “future” of public transports. “The whole world highlights in a very positive way the preference for high-capacity railway transports, with Metrô and LRVs. The function of the road transport is to supply this system”.
The manager says he believes the investigations of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry for Transports in the Legislative House and the questionings of the Justice on the bidding of bus basins in 2010 do not disqualify Logit, which was part of the partnership that prepared the bidding. The partner company in the partnership, Logitrans, is related to the lawyer Sacha Reck, suspect of directing the bidding, providing consultancies to the winning companies – something he denies.
“The company [Logit] is extremely respected in the market based on the works that have already been made. From the technical point of view, there are no questionings. There’s a calendar for the delivery of the products, a group of researchers which is highly qualified. I have no worries when it comes to the qualification of this company, and the bidding requirements have been fulfilled”, said Dourado.
No embarrassment
Logit CEO, Wagner Colombini, said to G1 by telephone that there are no embarrassments in the signature of the contract based on the investigations of the previous partnership. According to him, the lawyer Sacha Reck had relations with Logitrans and “was experienced in this sector”.
“I think there are no embarrassments, because Sacha is from Logitrans. He’s experienced and works in the area of public transports, in the area of biddings. Everything that is being discovered by investigations are actions in other sites. We had no works with Sacha Reck in Paraná, in São Paulo, in other areas”, says Colombini.
According to him, the contract signed with Metrô is much more expensive than the consultancy provided in 2010 because the level of details is different. Logit CEO says the new document will involve a field and domiciliary research, with more than 20 thousand families.
“The consultancy in 2010 was basically based on information that already existed, an existing model. It was an analysis of what was being proposed by the secretary. Now we’ll do something totally new. But what has been decided [in the Metrô ‘s expansion] doesn’t change. We already consider it part of an impaired network”, he says.
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