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 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 south west to Bankstown. It is due to open in 2024 with the ultimate 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.

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 Chatswood to Sydenham.

The project also includes the upgrade and conversion of the existing Bankstown Line to metro standards.

TfNSW is inviting expressions of interest from suitably qualified and experienced contractors to deliver the Central Station Main Works under an Incentivised Target Cost contract. The Central Station Main Works generally includes:
* The Metro Station Works, comprising a new Metro Station below existing platforms 12 to 15, and associated modifications to existing infrastructure;
* The Central Station Works, comprising adjustments to existing infrastructure, to connect the Metro Station Works to the existing Central Station; and
* The Central Walk Works comprising new infrastructure, and adjustments to existing infrastructure, to connect the Metro Station Works with Chalmers Street via a new underground concourse.

Additional information on the project is available on the Sydney Metro website at www.sydneymetro.info.

TfNSW currently intends to award the contract to the successful Proponent in early 2018.

In their Expressions of Interest, Applicants will be required to demonstrate they meet the following minimum requirements:
* They are an Authorised Engineering Organisation (AEO), or that the applicant is competent and capable to become an AEO;
* Each Participant comprising the Applicant had a turnover in construction activities of at least $750 million in the 2015/16 financial year;
* Evidence that the Applicant has undertaken three major urban civil infrastructure projects (at least one tunnelling project, and one complex civil project similar in scale and nature to the CSM Works) in the last five years;
* Evidence that the Applicant has managed the design, construction and handover of at least three rail infrastructure and systems projects in brownfield operating station environments in the last five years;
* They have third party accreditation for their Environmental Management, WHS Management and Quality Management Systems; and
* Accreditation, or evidence that accreditation is being sought, under the Australian Government Building and Construction WHS Accreditation Scheme (“the Scheme”).

Regulation 24(h) of the Fair Work (Building Industry - Accreditation Scheme) Regulations 2005 outlines provisions applying to joint venture/alliance arrangements that include accredited and unaccredited builders.

In order to receive the Invitation for Expressions of Interest documents, Registrants will be required to:
* Be bona fide contractors with demonstrable experience in the delivery of significant infrastructure work similar in nature and scale to the Central Station Main Works; and
* Execute a Confidentiality Undertaking. The Confidentiality Undertaking will be emailed to bona fide contractors after they have registered by email to SydneyMetro.Central@transport.nsw.gov.au.

The Confidentiality Undertaking must be satisfactorily executed and returned to TfNSW before a Registrant will be provided access to the Invitation. Access to the Invitation will be provided using an electronic data room. Instructions in relation to the electronic data room will be provided to Registrants after they have satisfactorily executed the Confidentiality Undertaking.

Only bona fide contractors will be provided access to the Invitation.