City Rail Link Sponsors Assurance Management (CSAM)

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Note: No information from potential respondents is requested nor required from this advanced notice. Interested parties should ensure that they are registered to receive GETS notifications for the applicable RFx Categories.
The City Rail Link (CRL), one of Auckland’s priority transport projects, is designed to further the Government’s aims for an efficient, modern and sustainable transport network and the Auckland Plan vision of Auckland being the world’s most livable city. It consists of a 3.4km underground passenger railway, connecting Britomart station to the Western Line in the vicinity of the existing Mt Eden station. Critical to the delivery of the project will be independent assurance and oversight of CRL to ensure that the project’s costs, schedule and risk profile are well understood and appropriately managed. The project’s joint sponsors, the Ministry of Transport/ Treasury and Auckland Council wish to go to the market for the provision of the appropriate independent technical advice, support and assurance services.
What we don’t want - companies without access to the necessary technical and engineering knowledge, capabilities, skills and experience of large rail/ metro projects in a tunneled environment.
What’s important to us - responses from credible providers who have the capability, knowledge and experience to deliver the required technical advice, support and assurance services. Suppliers will need to ensure they have access to the wide range of rail related engineering, technical, commercial, project/ programme management and assurance disciplines needed for a large rail/metro project. They will also need the necessary experience and knowledge of tunnel construction. The role has a large element of stakeholder management and the supplier will need the necessary relationship management skills and credibility to work constructively with Sponsors, CRLL and its inter-related partners and suppliers.
The purpose of this Notice is to provide advance notice to the market of the Ministry of Transport’s intention to release an RFP for providers that have the requisite skills and experience or can bring a consortium together to provide the skills and experience outlined above.
It is anticipated the RFP for this opportunity will be open via the Government Electronic Tenders Service (GETS) within two weeks of this notice. Further notice will be provided pending final stakeholder input.
For further information on CRL https://www.cityraillink.co.nz/