A Chinese-led consortium plans to
retender for Mexico's $3.75 billion high-speed rail project, after the
Latin American nation abruptly cancelled its earlier win, according to
sources close to one of the firms involved. Mexico revoked the contract awarded to
the consortium, made up of China Railway Construction Corp, CSR Corp and
four other Mexican firms, on Nov 7 after opposition lawmakers claimed
it was fixed. The consortium's bid was uncontested. The country said it
would re-run the tender later under the same terms. "Will we continue to bid with CRCC? -
that is a definite yes," said an official from CSR on Friday, who only
wanted to be identified by his surname Xu. A separate source close to the Chinese bid said CRCC was definitely going to tender again. Xu declined to say whether the Mexican partners would remain in the consortium.
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