Stadler has officially withdrawn its appeal against SBB’s decision to award a tender for 200 double-decker trains to Siemens.

In a statement, Stadler has stated that it has withdrawn its appeal due to ‘severely limited information available’, leaving the company with ‘no grounds to continue the legal proceedings’.

Stadler has launched an official appeal against the SBB’s decision

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The decision was made following court proceedings in which Stadler has claimed it ‘did not achieve the full transparency it had hoped for’ in relation to the matter in question. The company has stated that ‘numerous documents’ from the tender are currently completely redacted, resulting in passages remaining inaccessible and, therefore, unclear and unfit for use as evidence.

Despite this; Stadler has stated that it is clear that SBB ‘fully utilised its discretion in the evaluation of the bids in favour of the winning bid’, citing evidence from available court documents and affirming that the operator chose a train model that ‘had not yet been tested and was entirely new’.

The appeal was made following SBB’s award of a tender for 200 double-decker trains to Siemens in 2025. Stadler, which currently provides 153 of its own double-decker trains to SBB for daily service, stated at the time that it ‘[could not] understand the points of the evaluation and the resulting award decision’; and that its own bid was ‘undervalued compared to a train that only exists on paper’. Stadler also claimed that it could not understand why the winning bid stood out in terms of evaluated criteria including cost, quality, maintenance, sustainability or service contract.

Chairman of the Board of Directors Peter Spuhler said:

We continue to regret the decision, but must accept it on the basis of the information available to us. Stadler is focusing on continuing its long-standing and successful cooperation with SBB.

Stadler has stated that neither the company nor Peter Spuhler will be making any further comments on the decision.

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