Germany – Public transport services by railways – Mitteldeutsches S-Bahnnetz II

The subject matter is the provision of scheduled passenger rail transport services in the amount of approx. 7.3 million train-kilometres p.a. on the following lines: • S 2: Dessau – Bitterfeld – Leipzig – Markkleeberg-Gaschwitz, • S 7: Eilenburg – Delitzsch – Halle (Saale) – Lu. Eisleben – Sangerhausen, • S 8: Dessau/Lu. Wittenberg – Bitterfeld – Halle (Saale), • RE 13: Magdeburg – Dessau – Leipzig, • RB 51: Dessau – Lu. Wittenberg – Falkenberg (Elster), • RE 14: Dessau – Lu. Wittenberg. Additionally, the following optional operational services are provided for in the subject contract: • the provision of transport services on the line RB 52 Magdeburg Hbf – Dessau Hbf with a volume of approx. 0.7 million train-kilometres p.a. (Option 1), • the provision of transport services on the line S 22 Leipzig Hbf – Delitzsch CTC with a volume of approx. 0.19 million train-kilometres p.a. (Option 2), • the provision of transport services to increase the frequency of line RB 51 to an hourly service on the section Lutherstadt Wittenberg – Falkenberg with a volume of approx. 0.27 million train-kilometres p.a. (Option 3) • the provision of the subject transport services in the timetable year 2046 (Option 4). The decision to award these optional operational services will be made by the respective contracting authority Land Sachsen-Anhalt for Option 1, Zweckverband für den Nahverkehrsraum Leipzig for Option 2 and Land Sachsen-Anhalt and Land Brandenburg for Option 3, with the award of the contract. The optional operational services will commence at the earliest with the timetable change in December 2031 (14.12.2031) and at the latest with the timetable change in December 2032 (12.12.2032). Information on the date of commencement of the optional operational services will be provided with the award of the contract.