Rio's West Zone Bus Tender Yields Single Bidder for Two Lots, One Left Vacant

Overview

• Comporte Participações submitted the only proposals for the local Campo Grande and Santa Cruz lots, with documents under review and no contract signing date set.
• The B1 lot for longer inter‑neighborhood routes drew no bids, and the municipality is expected to relaunch that tender.
• The new concessions run for ten years with remuneration by kilometers operated, requiring fleet acquisition, vehicle maintenance, public garage management and ITS deployment.
• For the two lots proposed by Comporte, the tender demands 366 buses out of 512 planned across the three packages, compared with 104 vehicles currently in service in those areas.
• To keep service going after the mayor sealed Real and Vila Isabel garages for irregular operations, Internorte will supply 60% of the needed fleet and Mobi‑Rio will rent about 100 buses for two years as the city advances expropriations for public garages.