Engineering, Passenger Rail

Three on shortlist for Melbourne Metro

Melbourne Metro station plan. Graphic: Melbourne Metro Rail Authority

The Victorian Government has named three bidders to the shortlist to deliver the $6 billion Melbourne Metro tunnel and stations contract.

Transport minister Jacinta Allan announced the shortlist for the Tunnel and Stations Public Private Partnership (PPP) on Sunday.

“The best construction firms in Australia and around the world are lining up to build the biggest rail project in Victoria’s history,” she said.

The shortlist is comprised of the following three consortia:

  • Downer EDI, ACCIONA Infrastructure, Ferrovial Agroman, Honeywell, Plenary – Continuum Victoria
  • Lendlease Engineering, John Holland, Bouygues Construction and Capella Capital – Cross Yarra Partnership
  • CPB Contractors, Salini Impregilo, Pacific Partnerships, Ghella, Serco, and Macquarie Capital – Moving Melbourne Together

Allan said the three proposals combined for over 100,000 pages of detailed plans to build the nine kilometre Metro Tunnel and five new underground stations at Arden, Parkville, CBD North, CBD South and Domain in Melbourne.

“The bids are in, early works are approved and we’re getting on with building the Metro Tunnel,” Allan said, “to run more trains, more often right across Melbourne.”

Allan said a contract would be awarded by the end of 2017, so work can begin in 2018.