Infrastructure Ontario, Metrolinx Shortlist Three Teams to Build Scarborough Subway Extension Stations | UrbanToronto
Last week, Michael Lindsay, chief executive officer and president of Infrastructure Ontario (IO) explained to attendees at the Toronto Region Board of Trade’s seventh annual Transportation Summit that his organization has split work for the Scarborough extension of the Toronto Transit Commission’s Line 2 Bloor-Danforth subway into two contracts. One contract, already underway, is for advanced tunnelling. A second contact is for designing and building the stations, laying the tracks, and installing the technology that will connect the extension to the current subway line. “Working with industry,” he said, “we’ve actually come up with commercial arrangements and approaches that really incentivize getting that tunnelling commenced as fast as we possibly could… For the balance of the works, we’ve started to bring those to market as well.”
Map of the future Scarborough Subway extension, image by Metrolinx
This week, in fact, proposals for that part of the project have not only come to market, but IO and its partner, Metrolinx, have announced that they have shortlisted three teams to bid on the stations, rail, and systems (SRS) package for the project.
The two provincial agencies selected consortia using criteria that a request for qualifications (RFQ) process identified in September, 2021. Criteria included applicants’ design and construction experience and their financial capacity to deliver a project of this size and complexity.
IO and Metrolinx have invited three teams to participate in the request for proposals process. Teams include:
Dragados
Applicant Lead: Dragados Canada, Inc.
Design Prime Team Member: AECOM Canada, Ltd.
Construction Prime Team Member: Dragados Canada, Inc.
KSX Integrated Design-Builders
Applicant Leads: Peter Kiewit Sons ULC, SNC-Lavalin Constructors (Pacific) Inc.
Design Prime Team Members: Peter Kiewit Sons ULC, SNC-Lavalin Constructors (Pacific) Inc.
Construction Prime Team Members: Peter Kiewit Sons ULC, SNC-Lavalin Constructors (Pacific) Inc.
Scarborough Transit Connect
Applicant Leads: Aecon Infrastructure Management Inc., FCC Construccion S.A.
Design Prime Team Member: Mott MacDonald Canada Limited
Construction Prime Team Members: Aecon Infrastructure Management Inc., FCC Construccion S.A.
Infrastructure Ontario and Metrolinx say they will evaluate the proposals that the teams submit and award the development contract to the successful team in Fall, 2022. They’ll award the construction contract in mid-2024.
Aerial view of excavation and tunnel boring machine assembly at the Scarborough Subway Extension tunnel-borer launch-shaft site, image by Strabag via Metrolinx
Last May, IO and Metrolinx awarded the advance tunnel contract to assemble the tunnel boring machine to Strabag, which will begin tunnelling this spring.
The three-stop subway extension is one of four priority subway projects in the Greater Toronto Area which are of what the Government of Ontario calls “the largest subway expansion in Canadian history.” It will extend Line 2 by approximately 7.8 kilometres, from Kennedy Station to a new terminus at Sheppard Avenue East and McCowan Road.
Last year, the Government of Canada announced its commitment to fund 40 per cent of eligible costs, more than $10 billion, for the four projects.
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