Melbourne Airport Rail (Early Works)

Melbourne Airport Rail (the Project or MAR) will link Victoria’s primary airport (Melbourne Airport) to the metropolitan and regional rail networks for the first time, delivering a key piece of crucial transport infrastructure to meet the demand generated by Victoria’s growing population and evolving global economy.

The Australian and Victorian Governments have committed $5 billion each in funding towards MAR. MAR will be a heavy rail line integrated into the existing Melbourne metropolitan rail network. An alignment via Sunshine Station then through the Metro Tunnel has been confirmed as the route between Melbourne Airport and the Melbourne CBD. Rail Projects Victoria (RPV), a delivery agency within the Major Transport Infrastructure Authority (MTIA), is overseeing the planning, development, procurement and delivery of Melbourne Airport Rail.

Laing O'Rourke will be the Managing Contractor for the MAR Early Works and invites Respondents who have the requisite experience, capability and capacity to deliver the Early Works packages to submit an "Expression of Interest" for the Early Works by responding to this Prequalification Questionnaire.

The MAR Early Works primarily comprises of Utility Services Infrastructure relocation and protection along the project alignment, including both contestable and non-contestable critical utilities.

The Utilities Services include:

• Water & Sewer Mains
• Gas Mains
• Electrical
• Telecommunications Cables

Other works include:

• Construction of a Water Pressure Reducing Station
• General Civil works along the services corridor
  

Non-Contestable works will be performed by Utility Service Providers (USP) and include:

• Water & Sewer (16 Services) - Greater Western Water (GWW)
• Gas (4 Services) - AusNet
• Electrical (25 Services) - Powercor, Jemena
• Telecommunications (21 Services) - TPG/AAPT, NBN Co, Optus, Telstra, Vocus- Fuel - Exxon Mobile

HOW TO REGISTER AN EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (EOI)

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