Seven Firms Will Build the Smíchov Terminal for CZK 6.2 Billion, a Billion Under the 2023 Assumption

Prague's councillors approved the evaluation committee's choice of builder for the Nádraží Smíchov transport terminal on Monday 5 October, at the last council meeting before the municipal election. The job goes to a consortium of seven firms trading as "VCCS-HT pro Terminál Smíchov", led by SMP Construction of the Vinci Construction group. Its members are Eurovia CZ, Hochtief CZ, Hochtief Infrastructure, Průmstav, Stavby mostů and Eurovia Železniční stavby. Zdopravy.cz reported the decision and obtained the price.

The winning bid is CZK 6.197 billion excluding VAT. The tender's estimated value was CZK 7,124,313,780. Jaromír Beránek, the deputy mayor for transport, put the saving against the city's older arithmetic:

I regard it as good news for Praguers that one of the most significant transport projects will be taken on by a strong consortium of seven companies. Against the 2023 assumption we managed to tender the construction work for a price almost one billion crowns lower. The resulting bid price is thus CZK 6.197 billion excluding VAT.

— Jaromír Beránek, deputy mayor of Prague for transport, to Zdopravy.cz

Nothing starts until the piers are finished

Beránek said the city expects construction to begin next year, and the sequencing is the reason it cannot begin now. The terminal is to sit on a platform above the Smíchov railway station, and the piers that will carry that platform are being built by Správa železnic as part of its own reconstruction of the station. The railway authority will then sell them to the city. Prague is therefore buying a building whose foundations belong, for the moment, to somebody else.

That reconstruction has been running since 2023 and costs CZK 5.1 billion; Správa železnic also plans to rebuild the station building itself afterwards. The terminal has had a building permit since January 2024, when the city was still calling it Terminál Smíchov. The council renamed it Nádraží Smíchov in February 2025, a change the city's place-names commission approved while recommending that the Smíchovské nádraží metro station be renamed as well.

Three packages, opened one at a time

The contract splits into three parts, to be brought into service in sequence. First the bus station and the P+R car park, together with their connection to Dobříšská street. Then the platform over the tracks, tied into Nádražní street, which also covers alterations to the existing Smíchov station buildings. Last, the works on the station forecourt.

Finished, the hub is meant to gather the metro, trams, and city and regional buses into one interchange, with roughly 1,000 P+R spaces for cars and 1,000 B+R spaces for bicycles west of the railway station, and the long-distance and regional bus terminal placed above the railway platforms. The bus terminal was designed by the studio A69 – architekti, with project work by SUDOP. Zdopravy describes it as wrapping the site in a tidy box, which is a fair reading of a brief that asks a bus station to give an address its outward face.

The slower clock, and the plots it frees

Completion was originally planned by the end of 2030, and Zdopravy judges a further slip probable. The timeline so far supports that reading: councillors approved the launch of a contractor tender in December 2023, and the competition did not actually go out until June 2025.

The same meeting had to approve re-advertising the construction supervision contract. The city had already picked a winner in the original tender, cancelled that choice after objections were lodged, and then failed to approve a replacement within the original deadline — so the magistrate must run the procurement again. A terminal whose piers are not yet done can absorb that delay; it is still a second procurement lost to the first one's objections.

One consequence sits outside the station fence. Smíchov will in time absorb the Na Knížecí bus terminal nearby, which releases valuable plots directly on metro line B. Sekyra Group is the active developer in the area, building a new quarter on former railway land. The terminal is a transport project that is also, in its effects, a land release.