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Honourable Members will be asked to advise whether:
a decision in principle should be taken to adopt the single-contract approach (i. e. awarding the contract for construction and equipment to one consortium) for the first four stages of the Mass Transit Railway;
further exchanges should be entered into with the four consortia listed in paragraph 8 above, with a view to bringing at least one of them up to the requirements set out at Annex F;
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the Steering Group should be authorised to select the consortia with which to enter into actual negotiations, subject to the proviso that the final selection of a particular consortium would not be made without further reference to Executive Council;
subject to the approval of the necessary funds by the Finance Committee of the Legislative Council, the works described in paragraph 21(a) above should be undertaken on the basis proposed;
pending the establishment of the Mass Transit Railway Corporation, the additional steps set out in paragraph 23 above should be taken; and
a public announcement should be made, in general terms, of the decisions taken.
(The Director of Public Works (Acting) (Mr A.S. ROBERTSON) Principal Crown Counsel (Mr F. de F. STRATTON), the Director of Mass Transit Studies (Mr A. H. WILKINS), the Assistant Financial Secretary (Mass Transit Studies) (Mr LAU Wah-sum) and the Secretary, Mass Transit Steering Group (Mr J. C. C. CHAN) will attend before the Council for the discussion of this item).
23rd July 1973
(CR 10/5591/70 II)
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