Bombardier Transportation has extended its contract with Infotech Enterprises Ltd. As per the agreement, Infotech will continue to provide engineering, electronic design, technical publications and IT-related services to the transportation company s global divisions.
In India, the projects include the Delhi Metro Phase II for which Bombardier will soon start to supply trains. The original relationship was executed under the Build Operate and Transfer {BOT) framework. The new contract does not have this clause, according to a press release.
The contract builds on a relationship that started in 2003 and now Infotech supports all Bombardier divisions across multiple technologies and projects in a real-time engineering environment.
Josef Doppelbauer, CTO & vice president project management, Bombardier Transportation said, This renewed contract proves the strength of our business relationship with Infotech Enterprises. Together with our long operational manufacturing facility in Vadodra and the opening of a new rolling stock production facility at Savli to deliver the Delhi Metro project, this relationship will continue to further strengthen our engineering competence within our existing Indian operations. Our relationships and own capacities in India will not only ensure the support of local Indian projects but also help design and deliver high quality new systems thst could be utilized for our global needs.
Krishna Bodanapu, senior vice president - manufacturing, Infotech Enterprises Limited said, We started with simple engineering tasks such as data migration in 2003. Bombardier management team has shown exceptional vision and focus in enabling the relationship to evolve into a strategic partnership with Infotech undertaking complex engineering tasks in real-time projects.
