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planting one or two trees every time that we are removing one ,” adds Hagelskær .
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In the beginning , Odense Letbane decided to tender out the project as DBOM – design , build , operate and maintain . However , it quickly became apparent that there would be a lack of competition , driving up prices , as few companies could deliver all that was required within the tender . It was then decided to split the civil works into individual packages , as well as packages for the transport system and the rolling stock . The contract for rolling stock has been awarded to Stadler .
“ We now have divided the whole alignment in the civil works into seven smaller packages because we can see that in Denmark it was too large a scale of packages for one contractor , and we couldn ’ t attract international civil workers or construction companies to come and do that for us ,” acknowledges Hagelskær .
“ To have the highest competition possible , we divided them into certain packages . We have done the detailed design so our contractors are competing on the efficiency that they will provide in the construction phase . Right now , we have tendered up five out of the seven packages and we will have received the last two packages before 1 March .”
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The first of 16 Variobahn trams is expected to be delivered by Stadler to Denmark in autumn 2019 , while the whole fleet is scheduled to enter service by the end of 2020 . Despite being almost three years away , the
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