VIA Rail network developments

[Multi-modal]

Originally Posted by acottawa

Capital Transit Partners did the preliminary engineering. AFAIK that is a different role than an Owner's Engineer. I have never seen any reference to there being an Owner's Engineer for the Confederation Line (although I would be happy to be corrected, but then would also wonder about their competence).

They did the preliminary engineering, but that also included helping to prepare the RFP documents (the project agreement, etc...):

The Preliminary Engineering assignment, awarded to CTP in September 2010 and now nearing completion, required CTP in advancing the OLRT design to reduce capital and operating costs, improve operating characteristics, reduce future maintenance requirements, minimize construction related impacts and minimize impacts to adjacent properties. CTP also developed the Request for Qualifications and contributed to the related Request for Proposal documents for what will be a Design, Build, Finance and Maintain (DBFM) project.

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