High Frequency Rail is gathering steam according to bureaucrats at the recent pppcouncil conference. P32022
“It’s one of the most innovative and most complex projects that I certainly have ever seen in my career, and certainly one of the largest projects in living memory,” moderator Ilan Dunsky, a partner with Dentons LLP, told delegates during a panel presentation on the first day of the Canadian Centre for Public-Private Partnerships conference in Toronto.
Robitaille said it’s expected the project with its electric trains would inspire a broad modal shift, getting people out of cars and planes and greatly reducing carbon emissions. Other benefits enumerated included spurring new transit-oriented developments, creating thousands of jobs and boosting connectedness for such areas as Peterborough and the Quebec City airport region.
The request for expressions of interest phase was launched in March 2022, with 54 responses received. An addendum to the RFEOI was issued on Oct. 31. It is expected there could be three teams emerging from the RFQ stage invited to participate in the RFP. As outlined by Campbell, Robitaille and fellow panellist Patrick Kelly, who is director general with Public Services and Procurement Canada, the project comes with so many moving parts, aspirational goals and unknown technical components that at this point the progressive P3 model the government has in mind is pretty well open-ended.
One reason the interdepartmental team has decided to go with a progressive P3, said Robitaille, is the project’s size.
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