🇮🇹 Trenitalia tendered for the supply of at least 70, and possibly up to 370 night train carriages

That tender *received no bids* in March

https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:138093-2023:TEXT:EN:HTML&tabId=1

But now Trenitalia has negotiated with Titagarh Firema S.p.A. (Caserta 🇮🇹) & Skoda Transportation A.S. (Plzen 🇨🇿) to actually award a contract, and this was signed in June - in Italian here

https://www.ferrovie.info/index.php/it/13-treni-reali/27245-ferrovie-nuove-carrozze-per-intercity-notte-di-trenitalia-ecco-chi-le-costruira?s=35

I am somehow still a little cautious here, but IT LOOKS LIKE AN ORDER FOR NEW NIGHT TRAINS IN ITALY IS ON