Tender Reference :

Contract No.: ED/2025/18

Procuring Department :

Civil Engineering and Development Department

Subject :

Smart and Green Mass Transit System in Kai Tak

Description :

The works include the financing, design, construction, testing and commissioning of the Smart and Green Mass Transit System in Kai Tak ("the System") as well as the operation and maintenance of the System within a 20-year franchise period. Main scope of the works includes:

  1. construction of an elevated corridor (in the form of viaducts/track systems) of approximately 3.5 kilometres in length with six elevated stations and an elevated depot at Shing King Street, connecting the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal and the MTR Kai Tak Station, passing through the Kai Tak Sky Garden, the Shing Fung Road Park and the Kai Tak Sports Park;
  2. installation of system-wide facilities, including passenger carrying unit, signalling and control system, power supply/distribution system, communication facilities, fare collection system, platform gates and charging facilities;
  3. ancillary works including civil, geotechnical, water, drainage, sewerage, utilities, landscaping, electrical and mechanical works, relocation, dismantling, demolition and re-provisioning of existing services, facilities and structures;
  4. testing and commissioning, operation and maintenance of the System; and
  5. implementation of environmental mitigation measures and environmental monitoring and audit programme
The works are scheduled to commence in 2026 for completion and commissioning of the System in 2031. It is envisaged that a 20-year franchise will be granted to the successful tenderer by the Government to design, construct, operate and maintain the System. The franchise will include the right to collect fare. The System shall be returned to the Government at no cost at the end of the franchise period. The property development rights of Sites 4B5, 4C4 and 4C5 in Kai Tak ("the Sites") would be granted by way of private treaty grants at nominal premium to the successful tenderer to provide funding support for the delivery of the System. Tenderers will be required to propose a fixed sum payable to the Government for the grant of the franchise and property development rights of the Sites.

Estimated Quantity :

Not Applicable

Contact :

Mr Dennis Y C FUNG
Chief Engineer / East 4

8/F, South Tower,
West Kowloon Government Offices,
11 Hoi Ting Road,
Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon

Tel. No. : 3842 7087
Fax No. : 2301 4379
Email : ktgts@cedd.gov.hk

Closing Date/Time :

12:00 noon, Friday, 3 Jul 2026

Submission of Tenders :

Tenders must be clearly marked with the tender reference and the subject of the tender on the outside of the envelope (but should not bear any indication which may relate the tender to the tenderer) addressed to the Chairman, Central Tender Board and placed in the Government Secretariat Tender Box situated at the lobby of the Public Entrance on the Ground Floor, East Wing, Central Government Offices, 2 Tim Mei Avenue, Tamar, Hong Kong, before 12 noon on Friday, 3 July 2026. Tenders must be deposited in the tender box as specified in this tender notice ("Specified Tender Box') before the tender closing time. Late tenders and tenders not deposited in the Specified Tender Box will not be accepted.

The tender closing date may be extended under the following circumstances:-

  1. If tropical cyclone signal No. 8 or above, or a black rainstorm warning signal is hoisted or if "extreme conditions" announced by the Government is in force at any time between 9 am and 12 noon on the tender closing date, the tender closing time will be extended to 12 noon on the first working day after the tropical cyclone signal No. 8 is lowered, or the black rainstorm warning signal or the "extreme conditions" announced by the Government has/have ceased to be in force. Saturday is not counted as a working day. The announcements on "extreme conditions" will be made via press releases website of the Information Services Department (https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/today.htm); or
  2. If there is a blockage of the public access to the location of the Specified Tender Box at any time between 9 am and 12 noon on the tender closing date, the Government will announce extension of the tender closing date and time until further notice. Following removal of the blockage, the Government will announce the extended tender closing date and time as soon as practicable. The announcements will be made via press releases website of the Information Services Department (https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/today.htm).

    Remarks :

    1. Relevant interested parties with the capability of delivering the project (including developers, contractors, system operators, system suppliers and the like) can make a request for obtaining the tender documents through the project's website of the Civil Engineering and Development Department (https://www.ktgts.hk).
    2. Open tendering is adopted. Companies incorporated in Hong Kong or companies incorporated in Hong Kong with at least one of the shareholders/direct parent company of shareholders who meet the following qualification and other conditions for participation stipulated in the tender document are invited to tender:
      • with at least five (5) consecutive years of experience in operating a land-based public transportation system in or outside Hong Kong with an average daily patronage of at least 40,000 within the past fifteen (15) years counting from the tender closing date.
    3. The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region does not bind itself to accept any tender irrespective of whether the tender is the highest bid or where the assessment of tenders is based on a marking scheme, the tender with the highest overall score.
    4. The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region reserves the right to negotiate with any tenderer about the terms of the offer.
    5. Details of the award of this contract will be published on the Internet at https://pcms2.gld.gov.hk/.
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