Value for Money Assessment East Rail Maintenance Facility
The new maintenance facility provides maintenance, repair, and additional storage for GO Trains and support GO Transit's planned service expansions.
The new maintenance facility provides maintenance, repair, and additional storage for GO Trains and support GO Transit's planned service expansions.
To select the best procurement approach for the project, a value for money (VFM) assessment was completed by independent financial advisor, which compared the DBFOM P3 procurement to a traditional Design-Bid-Build (DBB) procurement.
The updated VFM Guide is intended to provide greater information and insight about IO’s use of best practices, as well as to provide further transparency about VFM and the AFP model for our clients and stakeholders. The process to refresh our VFM methodology involved:
The key objectives of the unsolicited proposals program are to:
The unsolicited proposals guidelines for more details on the three stages of the unsolicited proposal stage.
Alberta’s Unsolicited Proposal (USP) Framework and Guideline (Framework) is intended to ensure that projects initiated as USPs follow similar principles as the publicly initiated Public-Private Partnership (P3) projects during project development, procurement, and implementation.
Britannia Mine Wastewater Project saw the clean up the contaminated water flowing from the Britannia Mine site with a new acid rock drainage treatment plant.
On June 15, 2012, the Government of Canada and the State of Michigan signed the Canada-Michigan Crossing Agreement for the Gordie Howe International Bridge project. The agreement mandates a Community Benefits Plan to be delivered as part of the project that includes a workforce development and participation strategy as well as a stakeholder communication and engagement strategy.
Project documents, including project agreement, can be downloaded through Infrastructure Ontario.
For provincial climate lens requirements see the for example Department of Municipal Affairs and Environment of Newfoundland.
Applying a Climate Lens to Infrastructure Projects. As part of the Investing in Canada plan, applicants seeking federal funding for new major public infrastructure projects will now be asked to undertake an assessment of how their projects will contribute to or reduce carbon pollution, and to consider climate change risks in the location, design, and planned operation of projects.