Sydney Metro (NSW)

Building the business case for better public transport

When commissioned, Sydney Metro was Australia’s biggest public transport project. It was a complex program of works to design, construct, operate and maintain a fully automated “turn up and go” metro railway system for Sydney.

Sydney Metro comprised four key projects, each representing a separate line on the metro network. The new railway has successfully become the transport spine for Sydney’s growth, connecting communities and travellers with the rest of Sydney’s public transport system with a fast, safe and easy metro service.

Our role

MBB was engaged to deliver the business case, as well as leading the design management and specification writing, feasibility and concept design, procurement and delivery strategy, market engagement, tender documentation development, tender evaluation, interface and bid writing services, aligning commercial and technical inputs during development of project agreements.

MBB also provided transaction management services for Sydney Metro Northwest, overseeing and implementing the procurement strategy and tender processes for several packages for Sydney Metro Northwest including the Tunnelling, and Civil and Station and Viaduct contract and the OTS PPP.

Our services

MBB supported the development of the business case including an options analysis, allowing the project to be split into 3 separate contracts. These comprised a PPP for the operations, trains and systems, a construction contract for 15-kilometre twin metro tunnels between Bella Vista and Epping, including stations and civil works, and a surface and viaduct civil works contract for a four-kilometre elevated skytrain between Bella Vista and Rouse Hill.

MBB also provided:

• Interface management
• Cross-functional management roles within the integrated team during the planning, development and delivery of the initial stages
• Development of EOI documents and RFT documents
• Management of the interactive phase between the tenderers during the EOI phase
• Review of the reference design, the technical specification (SWTC) and the management of inputs from subject matter experts
• Negotiation and development of all third-party interface agreements
• Development of overarching evaluation framework and processes, and risk adjustment processes, for price and non-price evaluation streams

Senior management of clarifications process as well as review and confirm processes.