Transportation
Four consortia respond to TCH request for qualifications (04/02/11)
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Feb. 11, 2004
FREDERICTON (CNB) - Four consortia responded to the request for qualifications to design, build and finance the Trans-Canada Highway (TCH) between Grand Falls and Woodstock, and to operate and maintain the highway between Saint-Léonard and Longs Creek, Transportation Minister Paul Robichaud announced today.
"We are releasing the names of the consortia and their team members in keeping with our commitment to being as open as possible about our progress in selecting a developer for this project," Robichaud said.
The four respondents are the Brun-Way Group Joint Venture, the Upper Valley Highway Consortium, the Saint John Valley Highway Group, and the River Valley Road Development Company.
"These four responses will be evaluated by the departments of Transportation and Finance to determine which respondents have the best technical and financial abilities to design, build, finance, operate and maintain the new highway," Robichaud said.
The province will issue a request for proposals in March and plans to choose a preferred proponent by the end of October. The province expects to finalize and sign an agreement before the end of this year.
Robichaud and Finance Minister Jeannot Volpé announced the government's decision to involve a consortium in its plans to complete the Trans-Canada Highway in November 2003. In addition to the construction work that will be completed by the consortium as part of a large project, the Department of Transportation will construct the TCH from Pokiok to Longs Creek using the department's traditional method of tendering contracts.
"We made the decision to involve a developer because we see it as the most cost-effective way to complete the twinning of the Trans-Canada Highway by 2007," Robichaud said. "We believe that proceeding in this way is in the best interests of New Brunswickers."
The completion of the four-lane Trans-Canada Highway by 2007 is an action priority within the building strategic infrastructure building block in Greater Opportunity: New Brunswick's Prosperity Plan.
The project is being jointly funded by the federal and provincial governments through the Canada-New Brunswick Agreement on the Completion of the Twinning of the Trans-Canada Highway in New Brunswick.
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EDITORS NOTE: A list of the team members associated with each of the four respondents is attached. MEDIA CONTACT: Mona Chiasson, communications, Transportation, 453-3091.
RFQ Respondents and Team Members
The Brun-Way Group Joint Venture
- SNC-Lavalin Inc.
- Atcon Construction Inc.
- A.D. Fiander Associates Ltd.
- Aspen Environmental Inc.
- Eastern Designers and Company Ltd.
- Gemtec Limited
- Hillside Consulting Engineers Limited
- R.A. Currie Ltd.
- Ralph Smith Engineering Inc.
- Caldwell and Ross Limited
- Dunbar Construction Ltd.
- Eastern Fence Ltd.
- K-Line Construction Ltd.
- Northern Construction and Suppliers Ltd.
- Restigouche Construction Co. Ltd.
- Springhill Construction Limited
Upper Valley Highway Consortium
- Peter Kiewit Sons Co.
- Dexter Construction Company Ltd.
- Parsons Transportation Group
- ADI Limited
- Neill and Gunter Limited
- VMS Inc.
- Macquarie North America Ltd.
- CIBC
Saint John Valley Highway Group
- Bilfinger Berger BOT Inc.
- Bilfinger Berger AG/Fru-con Construction
- Fundy Contractors Limited
- Clarence Daigle & Sons Limited
- Cruickshank Construction Limited
- CIT Structured Finance
- Scotia Capital Inc.
- TSH Engineers, Architects and Planners
- Giffels Associates Limited
- Dillon Consulting Limited
- Golder Associates Ltd.
- Crandall Engineering Ltd.
- Archibald Drilling and Blasting
- Leo Alarie & Sons
- Terrain Group Inc.
- H.E. Sargent Inc.
- MGI Limited
- Conquest Engineering Ltd.
- Synectics Transportation Consultants Inc.
River Valley Road Development Company
- Miller Paving Limited
- Aecon Construction and Materials Ltd.
- Borealis Infrastructure Management Inc.
- Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board
- Marshall Macklin Monaghan Limited
- SGE Acres Limited
- Thurber Engineering Ltd.
- Applied Research Associates Inc.
- Boissonnault McGraw et Associés Ltée
- Roy Consultants Group
- Modern Enterprises Limited
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