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Cyprus

2 buyers · 1 tenders · checked 2026-09-24

No railway; commissioned feasibility study January 2026, awarded April 2026; only rail procurement is study contract; exempt under EU law as no system exists.

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0Metro systems operating
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No rail pipeline. One rail-scope contract exists on the electronic record — a preliminary feasibility study of about EUR 75,000, awarded April 2026 — and nothing else; nothing was open for bids on either TED deadline field on 14 September 2026.

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No railway0 km of railwayNo railway, tram or metro operates anywhere in Cyprus, and the Atlas carries this file for completeness of the European Union edition so that a subscriber does not read an empty country as a sourcing failure. The Ministry of Transport, Communications and Works' own English list of its departments, authorities, boards and committees contains no rail department, no rail regulator and no national safety authority. It groups its units under three headings: Administration (the Directorate of Control and the Joint Rescue Coordination Center), Departments (Public Works, Electrical and Mechanical Services, Road Transport, Civil Aviation and Postal Services) and Authorities / Boards / Committees (three licensing authorities — the Air Transport Licensing Authority, the Licensing Authority and the Licensing Renew Authority — the Cyprus Ports Authority, the aircraft and marine accident investigation bodies and the Council for the Registration of Building and Civil Engineering Contractors). Not one of them is rail. A former alignment survives as public land: the Department of Town Planning and Housing has tendered 'Δημιουργία Γραμμικού Πάρκου στην Παλιά Σιδηροδρομική Γραμμή στην Κοινότητα Κοκκινοτριμιθιάς' — creation of a linear park on the old railway line at Kokkinotrimithia — twice: first as 19/2023, which closed for bids on 9 February 2024 and which the register records as Ακυρώθηκε (cancelled) with no award; and 72/2024, the reissue, which closed on 27 September 2024 and which the register records as Ανατεθειμένο (awarded) on 29 August 2025.
3 sources · all primary
  • ● Ministry of Transport, Communications and Works · Departments — the ministry's own English-language list of its departments, authorities, boards and committees; the English name of Τμήμα Δημοσίων Έργων is 'Public Works Department' and there is no rail department, authority or safety body on the list (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Republic of Cyprus — eProcurement System (eprocurement.gov.cy) · Διαγωνισμοί που έχουν αποσφραγιστεί — the portal's public opened-tenders register, about 18,400 records, searchable by title without a CAPTCHA; the register row for ΚΠΣ/5/2026/Υ(ΣΔ) carries the procedure (Συνοπτική Διαδικασία), the buyer (Τμήμα Δημοσίων Έργων), the award date 20/04/2026 and the status Ανατεθειμένο. The same register holds 'Δημιουργία Γραμμικού Πάρκου στην Παλιά Σιδηροδρομική Γραμμή στην Κοινότητα Κοκκινοτριμιθιάς' (72/2024 and 19/2023, Τμήμα Πολεοδομίας και Οικήσεως). (published 2026-09-14 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Official Journal of the European Union · Directive (EU) 2016/798 on railway safety (recast) — Article 33(4) (published 2016-05-11 · checked 2026-09-14)
On 27 January 2026 the Public W…One rail contract: a preliminary feasibility study, about EUR 75,000, awarded 20 April 2026On 27 January 2026 the Public Works Department published a services contract, ΚΠΣ/5/2026/Υ(ΣΔ), 'Παροχή υπηρεσιών για την εκπόνηση Προμελέτης Σκοπιμότητας Σιδηροδρομικών Μεταφορών στην Κύπρο' — provision of services for the preparation of a preliminary feasibility study on rail transport in Cyprus. Bids closed at 11:00 on 9 February 2026 and were opened at 11:30 the same morning; the portal's public bid-opening record publishes four bids, and the register records the contract as Ανατεθειμένο (awarded) with an award date of 20 April 2026. It was run as a Συνοπτική Διαδικασία, the Cypriot summary procedure for below-threshold contracts, which is why it does not appear on TED. This is the whole of the Cypriot rail procurement record.
2 sources · all primary
  • ● Republic of Cyprus — eProcurement System (eprocurement.gov.cy) · Πληροφορίες Αποσφράγισης (bid-opening record) for ΚΠΣ/5/2026/Υ(ΣΔ), 'Παροχή υπηρεσιών για την εκπόνηση Προμελέτης Σκοπιμότητας Σιδηροδρομικών Μεταφορών στην Κύπρο' — publication 27/01/2026 16:03, closing 09/02/2026 11:00, opening 09/02/2026 11:30, status Ανατεθειμένο, four bids and prices (published 2026-02-09 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Republic of Cyprus — eProcurement System (eprocurement.gov.cy) · Διαγωνισμοί που έχουν αποσφραγιστεί — the portal's public opened-tenders register, about 18,400 records, searchable by title without a CAPTCHA; the register row for ΚΠΣ/5/2026/Υ(ΣΔ) carries the procedure (Συνοπτική Διαδικασία), the buyer (Τμήμα Δημοσίων Έργων), the award date 20/04/2026 and the status Ανατεθειμένο. The same register holds 'Δημιουργία Γραμμικού Πάρκου στην Παλιά Σιδηροδρομική Γραμμή στην Κοινότητα Κοκκινοτριμιθιάς' (72/2024 and 19/2023, Τμήμα Πολεοδομίας και Οικήσεως). (published 2026-09-14 · checked 2026-09-14)
Three EU rail instruments name…Named and exempted in three EU rail instruments — partially, not whollyThree EU rail instruments name Cyprus and Malta and disapply their obligations while neither has a railway, and each disapplies a different amount. Directive 2012/34/EU on the single European railway area, Article 64(2), final subparagraph: 'The obligations for transposition and implementation of Chapters II and IV of this Directive shall not apply to Cyprus and Malta for as long as no railway system is established within their territory' — Chapters II and IV only, not the whole Directive; recital (85) gives the reason, that such Member States 'would be subject to a disproportionate and pointless obligation'. The interoperability Directive (EU) 2016/797, Article 57(5), disapplies a named list of Articles — 13, 14(1) to (8), (11) and (12), 15(1) to (9), 16(1), 19 to 26, 45, 46 and 47, 49(1) to (4) and 54 — 'for as long as no rail system is established within their territories'. The railway safety Directive (EU) 2016/798, Article 33(4), disapplies the whole Directive on the same condition. Both 2016 Directives carry the same trigger, in words that are identical as far as the deadline and then diverge: 'as soon as a public or private entity submits an official application to build a railway line with a view to its operation by one or more railway undertakings, the Member States concerned shall put in place measures to implement' the provisions — 'within two years of receipt of the application' in Directive (EU) 2016/797, 'within 2 years of the receipt of the application' in Directive (EU) 2016/798. This is why a reader finds no Cypriot safety authority, no network statement and no licensed railway undertaking: the law that would create them does not yet bind Cyprus.
3 sources · all primary
  • ● Official Journal of the European Union · Directive 2012/34/EU establishing a single European railway area (recast) — recital (85) and Article 64(2), final subparagraph (published 2012-11-21 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Official Journal of the European Union · Directive (EU) 2016/797 on the interoperability of the rail system within the European Union — Article 57(5) (published 2016-05-11 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Official Journal of the European Union · Directive (EU) 2016/798 on railway safety (recast) — Article 33(4) (published 2016-05-11 · checked 2026-09-14)
Cyprus is on the trans-European…On the TEN-T network through ports and airports; the rail provisions are disappliedCyprus is on the trans-European transport network through its ports and airports, and the Regulation expressly takes the rail provisions off it. Regulation (EU) 2024/1679, Article 65 (Exemptions): 'The provisions relating to railways, and in particular any requirement to connect airports and ports to railways, as well as the provisions related to multimodal freight terminals shall not apply to Cyprus, Malta, islands and outermost regions for as long as no railway system is established within their territory.' Recital (98) states the same. The Annex II node table lists, for CY, Lefkosia, Lemesos (with a Core port including Zygi), Larnaka and Pafos. The word 'Cyprus' occurs three times in the whole Regulation — recital (98) and twice in Article 65 — and Cyprus appears nowhere in the Annex III alignment of any European Transport Corridor. There is no Cypriot rail corridor to invent.
1 source · primary
  • ● Official Journal of the European Union · Regulation (EU) 2024/1679 on Union guidelines for the development of the trans-European transport network — recital (98), Article 65 (Exemptions) and the Annex II node table (published 2024-06-28 · checked 2026-09-14)
A sweep of Tenders Electronic D…1 notice in the whole TED rail-CPV archive, and it is not railA sweep of Tenders Electronic Daily for Cypriot buyers across the rail CPV set returns exactly one notice in the entire archive: 201710-2024 of 5 April 2024, published by Ρυθμιστική Αρχή Ενέργειας Κύπρου, the Cyprus Energy Regulatory Authority, a business-services framework that happens to carry CPV 45234200 among a dozen consultancy codes. Nothing was open for bids on either TED deadline field on 14 September 2026. Nothing rail has ever reached TED from a Cypriot buyer; the country's one rail-scope contract, the 2026 preliminary feasibility study, was let below the EU threshold on the national portal and is carried in this file.
1 source · primary
  • ● Tenders Electronic Daily — Search API v3 · Rail CPV sweep for Cypriot buyers, run 14 September 2026. POST https://api.ted.europa.eu/v3/notices/search with query: buyer-country="CYP" AND classification-cpv IN (34600000 34620000 34630000 34940000 34941000 45234100 45234000 45234115 60200000 71311230 50220000). Returns one notice in the whole archive: 201710-2024 of 5 April 2024, Ρυθμιστική Αρχή Ενέργειας Κύπρου (the Cyprus Energy Regulatory Authority), a business-services framework carrying CPV 45234200 among a dozen consultancy codes. The same query with deadline-receipt-tender-date-lot>=20260914 and, separately, with deadline-receipt-request-date-lot>=20260914 returns 0 on both fields; the identical open-today query against buyer-country="AUT" returns 4, which is the control that shows the deadline filter works. Buyer-name sweeps on 2026 notices: buyer-name ~ "Δημοσίων Έργων" returns 38 notices, all under the single buyer Τμήμα Δημοσίων Έργων; buyer-name ~ "Μεταφορών" returns 4, under Υπουργείο Μεταφορών Επικοινωνιών και Έργων and Τμήμα Οδικών Μεταφορών; buyer-name ~ "Λευκωσίας" returns 47 across six Nicosia-area buyers including Δήμος Λευκωσίας, none of them rail. Title sweeps on buyer-country="CYP" return 18 notices containing 'metro', 8 containing 'railway' and 3 containing 'rail', every one of them a multilingual CPV heading or a handrail contract, and 0 containing 'tram'. (published 2026-09-14 · checked 2026-09-14)
Cyprus's national portal is epr…CAPTCHA-gated search, but one open register — and that is where the study was foundCyprus's national portal is eprocurement.gov.cy. Its Σύνθετη Αναζήτηση (advanced search) and its simple search both require a CAPTCHA and cannot be posted programmatically, but one public register on the same portal is open: Διαγωνισμοί που έχουν αποσφραγιστεί, the opened-tenders register at /epps/common/viewOpenedTenders.do, which holds about 18,400 records and accepts a title search with no CAPTCHA. That register is how the rail pre-feasibility study was found, and it was swept on the Greek stems σιδηροδρομ, σιδηρόδρομ, τραμ, τροχιόδρομ, μετρό, σταθερής τροχιάς, Μαζικών Μεταφορών and Προμελέτης Σκοπιμότητας. The stems return noise as well as signal — μετρό matches υδρομετρητές (water meters) and φασματόμετρο (spectrometer), and τροχιόδρομ matches Department of Forests contracts for forest tracks — and once the noise is removed exactly three rail-scope records remain, on two subjects: the 2026 pre-feasibility study, and the two procurements of a linear park on the old railway alignment at Kokkinotrimithia.
2 sources · all primary
  • ● Republic of Cyprus — eProcurement System (eprocurement.gov.cy) · Διαγωνισμοί που έχουν αποσφραγιστεί — the portal's public opened-tenders register, about 18,400 records, searchable by title without a CAPTCHA; the register row for ΚΠΣ/5/2026/Υ(ΣΔ) carries the procedure (Συνοπτική Διαδικασία), the buyer (Τμήμα Δημοσίων Έργων), the award date 20/04/2026 and the status Ανατεθειμένο. The same register holds 'Δημιουργία Γραμμικού Πάρκου στην Παλιά Σιδηροδρομική Γραμμή στην Κοινότητα Κοκκινοτριμιθιάς' (72/2024 and 19/2023, Τμήμα Πολεοδομίας και Οικήσεως). (published 2026-09-14 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Republic of Cyprus — eProcurement System (eprocurement.gov.cy) · Σύνθετη Αναζήτηση — the portal's advanced search form, which carries a CAPTCHA field and cannot be posted programmatically (published 2026-09-14 · checked 2026-09-14)

Buyers

BuyerTypeTendersContracts awarded
Τμήμα Δημοσίων Έργων (Public Works Department)Development authority10
Υπουργείο Μεταφορών, Επικοινωνιών και Έργων (Ministry of Transport, Communications and Works)National rail HQ00

Tenders

TenderBuyerStatusValue bandNext key date
Cyprus rail transport prefeasibility studyPWDAwardedEUR 74,500 to EUR 76,600 — the four bids opened on 9 February 2026; no contract value is publishedAwarded April 2026

Cities

CityNetwork statusNetworks
Nicosia (Lefkosia)no railway, tram or metro. Lefkosia is listed in Annex II to Regulation (EU) 2024/1679 as a TEN-T urban node, and Article 65 of the same Regulation disapplies the rail provisions, including any requirement to connect airports and ports to railways, to Cyprus. No tram or light-rail study published by an official body was found for Nicosia in this pass, on the national eProcurement portal, on TED or on the ministry's own site.

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Sources

  • ● Republic of Cyprus — eProcurement System (eprocurement.gov.cy) · Διαγωνισμοί που έχουν αποσφραγιστεί — the portal's public opened-tenders register, about 18,400 records, searchable by title without a CAPTCHA; the register row for ΚΠΣ/5/2026/Υ(ΣΔ) carries the procedure (Συνοπτική Διαδικασία), the buyer (Τμήμα Δημοσίων Έργων), the award date 20/04/2026 and the status Ανατεθειμένο. The same register holds 'Δημιουργία Γραμμικού Πάρκου στην Παλιά Σιδηροδρομική Γραμμή στην Κοινότητα Κοκκινοτριμιθιάς' (72/2024 and 19/2023, Τμήμα Πολεοδομίας και Οικήσεως). (published 2026-09-14 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Republic of Cyprus — eProcurement System (eprocurement.gov.cy) · Πληροφορίες Αποσφράγισης (bid-opening record) for ΚΠΣ/5/2026/Υ(ΣΔ), 'Παροχή υπηρεσιών για την εκπόνηση Προμελέτης Σκοπιμότητας Σιδηροδρομικών Μεταφορών στην Κύπρο' — publication 27/01/2026 16:03, closing 09/02/2026 11:00, opening 09/02/2026 11:30, status Ανατεθειμένο, four bids and prices (published 2026-02-09 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Ministry of Transport, Communications and Works · Departments — the ministry's own English-language list of its departments, authorities, boards and committees; the English name of Τμήμα Δημοσίων Έργων is 'Public Works Department' and there is no rail department, authority or safety body on the list (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Official Journal of the European Union · Directive (EU) 2016/797 on the interoperability of the rail system within the European Union — Article 57(5) (published 2016-05-11 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Official Journal of the European Union · Directive (EU) 2016/798 on railway safety (recast) — Article 33(4) (published 2016-05-11 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Tenders Electronic Daily — Search API v3 · Rail CPV sweep for Cypriot buyers, run 14 September 2026. POST https://api.ted.europa.eu/v3/notices/search with query: buyer-country="CYP" AND classification-cpv IN (34600000 34620000 34630000 34940000 34941000 45234100 45234000 45234115 60200000 71311230 50220000). Returns one notice in the whole archive: 201710-2024 of 5 April 2024, Ρυθμιστική Αρχή Ενέργειας Κύπρου (the Cyprus Energy Regulatory Authority), a business-services framework carrying CPV 45234200 among a dozen consultancy codes. The same query with deadline-receipt-tender-date-lot>=20260914 and, separately, with deadline-receipt-request-date-lot>=20260914 returns 0 on both fields; the identical open-today query against buyer-country="AUT" returns 4, which is the control that shows the deadline filter works. Buyer-name sweeps on 2026 notices: buyer-name ~ "Δημοσίων Έργων" returns 38 notices, all under the single buyer Τμήμα Δημοσίων Έργων; buyer-name ~ "Μεταφορών" returns 4, under Υπουργείο Μεταφορών Επικοινωνιών και Έργων and Τμήμα Οδικών Μεταφορών; buyer-name ~ "Λευκωσίας" returns 47 across six Nicosia-area buyers including Δήμος Λευκωσίας, none of them rail. Title sweeps on buyer-country="CYP" return 18 notices containing 'metro', 8 containing 'railway' and 3 containing 'rail', every one of them a multilingual CPV heading or a handrail contract, and 0 containing 'tram'. (published 2026-09-14 · checked 2026-09-14)

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