Bursa Municipality has shortlisted six consultants for a contract to provide design services and supervise construction of the first, $330 million stage of the city's metro, awarded in January to a venture led by Germany's Siemens (MEED 17:1:97). Six ventures have also been shortlisted by the municipality for design work to complete a ring road around the city.

The six ventures shortlisted for the metro consultancy are:

Canada's Delcan with the local Su Yapi

the UK's Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners with Lebanon's Dar al-Handasah

Germany's Light Rail Transit Consultants with DHM and Dogan Muhendislik

Germany's Lahmeyer International with UBM

Austria's Vienna Consulting Engineers with ACS

Germany's Obermeyer Planen, Beraten and Rail Consult with Optim Obermeyer Proje

The six ventures, mainly of foreign with local firms, shortlisted for the ring road consultancy are:

the US' Louis Berger International with MSG

Australia's SMEC

Dar al-Handasah with Dar Muhendislik

the UK's Owen Williams and Oscar Faber with Ulasim-ART and UBM

Obermeyer with Optim Obermeyer Proje

the UK's Hyder Consultants with Hyder Yapi and Su Yapi

The contract will call for the preparation of detailed feasibility and design studies, and bidding documents, for the completion of the ring road, including three interchanges, and improvement of the Yalova and Ankara roads including bus routes.