Another major milestone has been reached on the $4.5 billion Great Western Highway Upgrade Program in New South Wales with Registrations of Interest (ROI) now underway for the East and West Packages.
Transport for NSW is inviting experienced and qualified organisations to participate in the procurement process for the two work packages.
Successful tenderers will undergo a two-phase procurement process which involves the Registration of Interest and Invitation for Expressions of Interest for the first phase; and the Request for Tender, submission of tenders and contract awarding in the second phase.
For interested parties, a set of requirements has been laid out and organisations need to follow the outlined instructions from the documents provided to be able to successfully register their interest in the procurement process. For more information on the registration process, you can visit the NSW Government eTendering website.
Registration will be open until 18 August 2022.
To Mount Victoria (source: NSW Government - Great Western Highway Upgrade Program / West)
The Great Western Highway Upgrade Program is divided into three packages, namely the Katoomba to Blackheath (East) package, Blackheath to Little Hartley (Central) package and Little Hartley to Lithgow (West) package.
The East works package is divided into two sections:
The Western package, on the other hand, will include:
Lastly, the Central section of the Great Western Highway Upgrade Program will involve:
Explorers Road overpass (source: Great Western Highway Upgrade Program / East)
The Australian and New South Wales Governments are jointly funding the $4.5 billion Great Western Highway Upgrade Program that will duplicate the highway between Katoomba and Lithgow to provide economic and safety benefits for the community and all road users.
This project aims to improve the connection between Central West NSW and Sydney as well as reduce congestion, improve resilience and freight productivity around and through the Blue Mountains.
In May of this year, the State Government announced that the project is expected to support an additional 1,400 jobs, taking the total number of jobs to be generated during construction to 3,900.
Source: NSW Government – eTendering; Transport for NSW (1, 2, 3, 4); Australia New Zealand Infrastructure Pipeline (1, 2, 3)
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