 In July 2007 the Government of Victoria announced that Alstom was one of two companies invited to bid to build 10 new six-car trains for the existing network.Siemens Transportation Systems was the other company, and both were limited to supplying trains that were the same as those already supplied to Melbourne.The Department of Infrastructure found that the new trains delivered less than one additional peak-hour service across the entire network, and had initially lobbied the Government to buy 20 six-carriage trains.