It will be between numbers 32A and 34A of Fernando Maurício Street, in the stores of a residential building in Marvila, that EMEL will set up an office and workshop to manage and maintain Lisbon's bike sharing system, GIRA.
According to the project's descriptive memory, now launched for public tender, the space will have an administrative area that can receive the public and a more private one; Already the workshop zone will occupy the largest area and will include, among other things, an area for trailer entry, a bicycle test course and a warehouse for, for example, mechanical parts and electrical components..
"The project provides for construction on a gross building area of 1,164.00 m2 and an indoor usable area before alteration of 983.00 m2"reads the document that Lisboa Para Pessoas consulted in the SaphetyGov platform (CP 1/21).
The construction of this office and workshop comes at a time of transition for GIRA. Launched in 2017 by a consortium of companies, including Órbita and Siemens, under EMEL management, Lisbon's bike-sharing system has experienced several ups and downs. In addition to successive delays in the completion of the so-called first phase of GIRA (with 1410 bikes and 140 stations), there was also the bankruptcy of Órbita, the bike supplier.
The system currently has about 600 bicycles in circulation, and is expected to receive 730 more by March, of a public tender that had as supplier the consortium MEO/Soltráfegoand has another tender underway for another 1,500 units. The new bicycles will be joined by new stations: the next docks will be for Baixa, Almirante de Reis, Olivais and Lumiar.
Updated at 14:40 on March 14, 2021: the public tender was suspended "because no proposal was submitted". "Only 5 statements were submitted, from interested parties, where almost all of them indicate that the price of the proposal would be higher than the stipulated base price except one where it is stated that they did not have enough time to obtain quotations for some activities of the contract."
