The Central Administrative Court has dismissed a petition filed by Bangkok Mass Transit System Plc (BTSC) seeking an injunction to suspend the current round of bidding for the right to jointly invest in Orange Line's western extension project.
The court rejected the petition on Monday, reasoning that there was no sound rationale to put on hold the ongoing bidding of the Bang Khun Non-Min Buri extension of the Orange Line, while the requested suspension of the project would cost about 41.26 million baht a day in the project's costs of so-called care of work.
BTSC had last month petitioned the court to suspend this second round of bidding of the project and order the Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand (MRTA) to bring back the 2020 version of both the terms of reference (ToR) and request for proposal (RFP) initially used in the first round of bidding.
