Infraestruturas de Portugal (IP), the state-owned company that oversees road and rail infastructure in Portugal, has launched the international tender for a planned public-private partnership (PPP) for the second section of the high-speed line, between Oiã and Soure, with bids being able to be submitted until January 2025. The concession tender, the second to be launched as part of the high-speed line project (the first concerns the section between Porto and Oiã), has a maximum award value of €1.6 billion, IP said in a news release. In addition to the construction of 71 kms of high-speed line (LAV), the PPP also includes the adaptation of the current Coimbra-B station and the quadrupling of capacity of the stretch of the North line (between Lisbon and Porto) between Taveiro and Coimbra.
