Deutsche Bahn project to provide 50 km of new track with 26 km underground together with new central station to cut travelling times to Munich and to airport. Working group considering all options prior to arranging finance package. October 1999.   Further seed finance required to bolster promised $900 million before $2.5 billion scheme to excavate 8-track central station and bury existing lines can start. Visit www.stuttgart21.de 04/01.Negotiated procedure, deadline 3rd December, 2007 for general planning for lots PFA 1.2, PFA 1.6a and PFA 1.6b for the Stuttgart 21 project. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=260644-2007, OJ S 214, or contact DB ProjektBau, Stuttgart, tel. +49 71120927696 or fax +49 71120923690. E-mail ute.schmidt@bahn.de or wolfgang.grau@bahn.de.Lot PFA 1.2 runs from the central station to the Filder plain. It comprises 2 x 9,260 metres of single-track bored tunnels, in circular and horseshoe-shaped cross-sections, about 200 metres of cut-and-cover tunnel, and two single-track underpasses of approx. 450 m. The Filder tunnel connects lots PFA 1.1 and PFA 1.6a with lot PFA 1.3. The tunnel crosses different geological layers, in particular rock formations consisting predominantly of gypsum-bearing rock and anhydrite.Lot PFA 1.6a mainly contains also two single-track tunnels with a circular cross-section and the connection to the Stuttgart Untertuerkheim railway yard. The route length is 6.3 km from the central station to Stuttgart Obertuerkheim and Stuttgart Untertuerkheim.Lot PFA 1.6b is for a new railway yard in Stuttgart Untertuerkheim and associated technical facilities for maintenance. Click here to know more about the Stuttgart 21 project. Visit www.stuttgart21.de 46/07.Negotiated call for tenders, deadline 8th April, 2008 for cost control for the Stuttgart 21 project. Click here and here. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=49902-2008, OJ S 36, or contact Innenministerium Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, fax +49 7112315737. E-mail beate.schuler@im.bwl.de 09/08.Spiekermann has been assigned the general planning for lots PFA 1.2 and PFA 1.6 for the Stuttgart 21 project. Click de/22. Visit www.spiekermann.de and www.stuttgart21.de 36/08.Negotiated invitation to tender, deadline 10th October 2008, for planning of lot PFA 1.3 of the Stuttgart 21 project. Lot PFA 1.3 includes single-track tunnels and an underground station at the Stuttgart airport, approx. 3 km long altogether, a 500 m tunnel and a 1.5 km dual-track tunnel box. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=231601-2008, OJ S 173, or contact DB ProjektBau, Stuttgart, fax +49 71193319391. E-mail jens.lukas@bahn.de 37/08.