The Sydney Metro West project is a 24-kilometre underground metro railway which aims to double rail capacity between Parramatta and the Sydney CBD. The project includes nine new stations, located at Westmead, Parramatta, Sydney Olympic Park, North Strathfield, Burwood North, Five Dock, The Bays, Pyrmont and Hunter Street in the Sydney CBD. Four Integrated Packages worth $11.5 billion were awarded late last year, including the Trains, Systems, Maintenance and Operations Package, Linewide Package, the Stations Package West, and the Hunter Street Station and Precinct Package.
The Judging Panel commended KPMG, Ashurst and Clayton Utz for providing strategic and commercial advisory services, transaction management services, and legal advisory services for the Four Integrated Packages. The Panel recognised the collaborative and coordinated approach between commercial, transaction management and legal advisory teams, which enabled the alignment of interdependent contract packages. The Panel also recognised the innovative approach taken by the advisory teams, in developing an integration-based incentive regime and the collaborative cross-package value opportunity process undertaken with tenderers.