CRL Connection
April 2019
CRL Chief Executive Sean Sweeney at the media briefing yesterday
CRL names preferred bidder for main works City Rail Link Ltd (CRLL) has made three significant announcements to complete the City Rail Link project by the end of 2024. We have named a group of New Zealand and international infrastructure companies known as the Link Alliance as our preferred bidder to complete its substantive C3 Contract – construction of the twin tunnels, building two underground stations and redeveloping the existing Mt Eden Station on the western line. We’re now negotiating with the Link Alliance to get an Early Works Contract worth $75 million underway as quickly as possible to keep up momentum on the project. The contract includes work relating to design,
consents, permitting, utilities and mobilisation ahead of works starting on C3. CRL’s Chief Executive Dr Sean Sweeney says that the Early Works Contract “will keep us on track to have this transformational project in place and delivering significant benefits for Aucklanders at the end of 2024”. Alongside the preferred bidder and Early Works Contract announcements CRL Limited also announced a revised cost for the entire project of $4.419 billion. “The $1 billion cost increase on the previous $3.4 billion estimate made in 2014 reflects significant changes impacting the project in the past five years,” says Dr Sweeney.
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