Sydney Metro is Australia’s largest public transport project.

Sydney Metro has two core components:
Stage 1: Sydney Metro Northwest - formerly the 36km North West Rail Link. This $8.3 billion project is now under construction and will open in the first half of 2019 with a metro train every four minutes in the peak. Tunnelling has finished and construction is progressing rapidly; and
Stage 2: Sydney Metro City & Southwest - a new 30km metro line extending metro rail from the end of Sydney Metro Northwest at Chatswood under Sydney Harbour, through new CBD stations and southwest to Bankstown. It is due to open in 2024 with the capacity to run a metro train every two minutes each way through the centre of Sydney.

The NSW Government has identified both stages of Sydney Metro as priority projects.

Stage 2 of Sydney Metro will extend metro rail from Sydney’s booming North West region, beneath Sydney Harbour, through new underground CBD stations and beyond to Bankstown. Services on Sydney Metro City & Southwest are expected to start in 2024.

The first of five tunnel boring machines will be in the ground before the end of 2018 to deliver new 15.5km twin railway tunnels from the end of Sydney Metro Northwest at Chatswood to Sydenham.

The project includes the upgrade and conversion of the existing Bankstown Line to metro standards, increasing services from eight an hour in the peak to 15 new metro trains every hour.

This Invitation for Expression of Interest deals with the first Early and Enabling Works package of the Sydney Metro City & Southwest, which is for a Sydney Yard Access Bridge (“SYAB”) Works package.

Additional information on the project is available on the Sydney Metro City & Southwest project website at http://sydneymetro.info/home.

The Sydney Yard Access Bridge (“SYAB”) Works for the Sydney Metro City & Southwest project comprises the design and construction of a bridge for controlled heavy vehicle access from Regent Street into the Sydney Yard at Central Station to facilitate the construction of the Sydney Metro works at Central Station.

TfNSW intends to deliver the SYAB Works under a fixed price lump sum design and construct contract for the demolition and site preparation, bridge works and associated rail works.

Registrations are now open for suitably experienced and qualified relevant entities to participate in the SYAB Works EOI process.

Relevant entities may include:
* Bridge design and construction contractors;
* Civil engineering design and construction contractors;
* Structural design and construction contractors;
* Experienced rail infrastructure contractors; and
* Others who in the opinion of the Project team should be registered for the EOI process

Entities that are not relevant entities will not be registered.

In order to participate in the SYAB Works EOI process, including to receive the Invitation for EOI, request and receive clarifications, and to submit an EOI, an entity must either have:
* Registered to participate in the EOI process; or
* Where the entity is a consortium or other such group, had at least one of its members registered to participate in the EOI process.

Entities may register interest as individual entities or as consortia; however, fully formed consortium structures are not required to be registered at this stage.

The registration process is designed to ensure that entities participating in the EOI process are bona fide entities for the SYAB package.

To register, an entity must:
* Return a copy of the completed registration form and the executed Confidentiality Deed Poll by email to TfNSW's nominated contact person at SydneyMetro.SYAB@transport.nsw.gov.au; and
* Mail the original completed registration form and the executed Confidentiality Deed Poll to:
* SYAB Package - Registration for Invitation for EOI

Sydney Metro City & Southwest Project
Ground Floor, South Building
22 Giffnock Avenue,
Macquarie Park,
NSW 2113, Australia

Upon TfNSW’s receipt of all completed documents from a bona fide entity, a confirmation email will be sent to the entity.

Registration applications will close at 5:00pm on 29 April 2016.

Note: TfNSW intends to hold a briefing for registered entities during the week commencing 9th May 2016.