It sounds as if they were just about ready to launch the procurement last budget cycle so they're likely raring to go seeing as they still have the team together. I don't think the delay on this one will be the actual procurement but the capacity in North America (unless someone other than Siemens steps in) to manufacture passenger rail cars, so 27/28 is VERY optimistic. Though I'm sure there will be a good deal of public consultation concurrent with an RFQ phase for what people would like to see in a modern long-distance train. Helpfully, Amtrak has done a lot of work on this so there is a really good jumping off point. We'll very much likely end up with whatever Amtrak decides with some modifications a la the Corridor fleet, but that also means we will be behind them in the manufacturing queue.