The City of Ottawa, in partnership with the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce and the Ottawa Business Journal, will be hosting an OLRT Trade Show on February 9, 2012 at the CE Centre (4899 Uplands Drive).

Ottawa companies, labour associations, trade schools, colleges and universities are invited to participate in the tradeshow with the opportunity to interact and engage with the three selected consortia competing for the OLRT contract. The three consortia, made up of world-class firms with extensive expertise in transit infrastructure projects, will have an opportunity to become familiar with the quality goods and expertise that Ottawa has to offer as they expand their teams to address the City’s requirements as outlined in the OLRT Project’s Request-for-Proposal (RFP).

A limited number of booths will be available for interested participants starting at $500 per booth. In addition, tickets are available for $75 per person and include access to the breakfast and lunch sessions with Mayor Watson and other officials. For a detailed itinerary and registration package please see the following link:
http://www.ottawachamber.ca/wcevents/eventdetail.aspx?eventid=192

Ottawa’s $2.1 billion investment in the OLRT Project will generate significant economic activity in a variety of sectors, including construction, professional services, technology and others. While trade laws do not permit the City to specify or mandate the inclusion of local companies in the construction project, the City has the ability to play a leadership role in promoting local business participation and local employment within OLRT procurement guidelines and international trade regulations.

For more information about how to participate in the Trade Show, please contact:

Event Assistant:
Patti Moran
613-744-4800, x 248
tradeshow@obj.ca

Booth Sales:
Dale Harley
613-882-5684
dale@harleyhouse.com

The final Geotechnical Data Report (GDR), detailing the Geotechnical and Hydrogeological Investigation conducted in Phase 3, will be released when all the field data and lab data has been compiled. This report is expected to be publicly available on this website in December 2011.

Two Interim Geotechnical Data Reports are currently available:

Phase I – December 2010

Phase II – April 2011

(l-r) Councillor Wilkinson, Mayor Watson, Councillor Deans and John Jenson,
Director of Rail Implementation announce the OLRT shortlist.

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Firms to Compete for the OLRT Project Contract

Ottawa – Companies from across Canada and the world participated in a rigorous, competitive Request-for-Qualifications process that evaluated their design, construction, maintenance and financing abilities to deliver the highest quality LRT project – on time and on budget.

“This is an important step forward in implementing light rail for Ottawa,” said Mayor Jim Watson. “Collectively, these firms have built over $ 100 Billion dollars in light rail projects and 2000 km of tunnels in cities across the globe. These companies have built successful projects in cities such as Athens, London, Madrid, Reims, Sydney, Calgary and Vancouver. These are some of the biggest, most experience, and most capable firms in the world.”

The result is a shortlist of three consortia made up of world-class firms with extensive expertise in transit infrastructure projects. These consortia, listed alphabetically, are as follows:

Ottawa Transit Partners (OTP) led by VINCI Concessions, with ACCIONA Concessions Canada Inc., ACCIONA Infrastructure Canada Inc., Aecon Construction Group Inc., Bombardier Transportation Canada Inc., and VINCI Construction Grands Projets as prime team members.

Rideau Transit Group (RTG) led by ACS Infrastructure Canada Inc., with EllisDon Corporation, EllisDon Inc., Dragados Canada Inc., SNC-Lavalin Capital, SNC-Lavalin Constructors (Pacific) Inc., and Veolia Transportation Services Inc. as prime team members.

Rideau Transit Partners (RTP) led by Bouygues Travaux Publics S.A., with Brookfield Financial Corp., Fiera Axium Infrastructure Canada LP, Parsons Enterprises Inc., Parsons Canada Ltd., Colas Rail S.A. and Johnson Controls L.P. as prime team members.

“The clear winner in this process will be Ottawa” said Mayor Watson. “The collective reputations and experience of these firms will make for a fierce competition during the procurement process to move faster, innovate further and bring the best value to the City.”

The firms will compete throughout the Request-for-Proposals process, scheduled to commence later this month and close in July 2012. Working with our commercial procurement lead, Infrastructure Ontario, the City will select a winning proposal in late 2012 for approval by City Council with construction to commence in Q1 2013.

The OLRT project, the best and most cost effective solution to the City’s long term transit needs, will generate more than $3 billion of economic activity and 20,000 person-years of employment during construction alone. To maximize the local economic impacts of this investment, the City of Ottawa will be hosting a local trade show in early 2012.

The selected teams will now advance designs for the proposed system in order to provide competitive fixed price costing to build, finance and maintain this project. These three teams will represent the core teams in the procurement process. Each may add more companies to their team as they advance design and find partnerships with local business.

For more information about Infrastructure Ontario, please visit www.infrastructureontario.ca.

We also encourage you to continue to visit our website for Project information and updates as well as future notices that will also be available on the MERX website www.merx.com.

Kelly McIntyre
Project Coordinator, Rail Funding & Procurement
Email:  Kelly.McIntyre@ottawa.ca

Sessions Completed

Acciona
Aconex
Aecon
Aecom
Alstom
Altus
American Maglev Technology
Ansaldo STS
Ardanuy Ingenieria
Arup
Bechtel
BMT Fleet Technology
Bombardier
Bouygues Construction
CAF (CONSTRUCCIONES Y AUXILIAR DE FERROCARRILES)
CH2M Hill
CIMA
Delcan
Dessau
Dillon Consulting
FCC Consulting
Ferrovial
Fluor
Gannett Fleming
Geismar Modern Track Machinery
Graham Infrastructure
Groupo ACS/Dragados
Hatch Mott MacDonald
HDR/Itrans
HNTB
IBI Group
Innovus
Kiewit
Kinkisharyo
Laing O’Rourke
Macquarie
OHL
Parsons
Parsons Brinckerhoff
PCL/Strabag
Peter Kiewit
Plenary Group
PowerAdvocate
PNR Railworks
Railquip Inc.
Siemens
SNC – Lavalin
Strabag
Suretech
Systech
Thales Rail Signalling
Transdev
Turner & Townsend
Vinci Construction

]]> http://www.ottawalightrail.ca/en/newsroom/2011/07/industry-outreach-opportunities/feed/ 2 http://www.ottawalightrail.ca/en/newsroom/2011/07/ottawa-city-council-endorses-improved-light-rail-transit-project/ http://www.ottawalightrail.ca/en/newsroom/2011/07/ottawa-city-council-endorses-improved-light-rail-transit-project/#comments Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:50:26 +0000 Ottawa Light Rail http://www.ottawalightrail.ca/en/newsroom/?p=876 Ottawa, 14 July 2011 – Today Ottawa City Council unanimously voted to advance the Ottawa Light Rail Transit project, as announced by Mayor Jim Watson on July 7^th.  The approved report contains an updated cost estimate – within the budget of $2.1 billion – a new design plan and a clear and affordable path for OLRT implementation.

“The vote today signals this Council’s strong support for our improved plan to build an efficient, functional and affordable light rail system for our riders,” said Mayor Jim Watson.” The LRT will ease congestion on our downtown streets, reinvigorate our city core, create opportunities for smart development and lay the foundation for future expansion of our transit network.”

The revised Queen Street alignment outlined in the report improves ridership experience, brings the tunnel closer to the surface, reduces risk and improves cost certainty for construction. The report also recommends a Design-Build-Finance-Maintain (DBFM) procurement approach that will secure a fixed price contract to construct and maintain the LRT system from Tunney’s Pasture in the west to Blair Road in the east. This 12.5km, 13 station LRT system includes a tunnel through the downtown core to address the transit bottleneck that slows service and challenges the reliability of the system today. This procurement approach will ensure this project is on time and on budget while taking advantage of the ingenuity and innovative ideas of private sector partners.

“This report is the result of extensive work done over the last few months to deliver on the accelerated timeline and cost challenge from the Mayor and Council,” said City Manager, Kent Kirkpatrick. “Staff was directed to initiate a more detailed review of the capital and operating budgets for providing public transit in Ottawa. As a result, the engineering and project teams have worked very hard rethinking assumptions and defining a better light rail system that can be built within the approved budget.”

The City of Ottawa commenced its request for qualifications process to identify firms with a proven track record in delivering successful LRT solutions to cities around the globe.

Read the Report