Four B.C. companies are in the running for the new Canada Post material sorting facility that is to be built next to the Vancouver International Airport
Four B.C. companies are in the running for the new Canada Post material sorting facility that is to be built next to the Vancouver International Airport.
The four that have made the short-list are Bird Construction (with Kasian Architects), Ledcor (IBI-HB Architects), Stuart Olson Dominion Construction (with Genivar Engineering and PBK Architects), and the B.C. branch of the France-based company Bouygues.
Canada Post spokeswoman Colleen Frick said the contract is expected to be awarded Oct. 1.
Companies are under a non-disclosure agreement.
She said the request for proposal was listed on MERX and the deadline for technical submissions by the four companies closed Aug. 9, with the financial submissions closing near the end of the month.
The four short-listed construction firms were whittled down from an initial 18 companies expressing interest in the design-build contract.
They included construction firms from Montreal, Ottawa and Manitoba, as well as B.C.
“This is an excellent time to go to the market as there is capacity in the industry,” said Keith Sashaw, Vancouver Regional Construction Association president.
The YVR facility is a one-storey, 660,000 square foot light industrial building that will house material handling equipment and its close proximity to the airport will allow opportunities to improve operations and day to day logistics.
The structure is expected to meet a LEED standard through the design-build.
The facility follows on the newly-completed Winnipeg post office located at the James Armstrong Richardson International Airport undertaken by a joint-venture of two construction firms Aecon Group Inc. and Caspian Projects Inc.
Neither bid the Vancouver job.
Canada Post spokesperson Anick Losier told media outlets earlier this year that Winnipeg’s new 235,000 square foot $100 million plant was part of Canada Post’s $2 billion investment in new infrastructure in Canada.
The infrastructure upgrades coincide with a transformation that is occurring in Canada Post across the country.
“Instead of maintaining separate workforces on foot to deliver mail and in vehicles to deliver parcels, we are equipping our delivery agents with vehicles to deliver all products in a geographical area,” states the Canada Post website.
Such service has already started in Winnipeg with similar implementations starting in parts of Ontario, Halifax and Quebec.
Richard H. Harris of MHPM Project Managers Inc. confirmed that his company was acting as project manager for the Vancouver development, but was under a confidentiality agreement not to disclose details.
MHPM is the same company that brought the Winnipeg plant in on time and budget, and has a track record for managing projects for Canada Post.
Ledcor has been involved with Canada Post for more than 15 years, carrying out contracts including the expansion of post offices, upgrading letter carrier facilities and other related work.
According to information from Ledcor, the company has worked on an award winning 40,000 square foot office tenant improvement, which included the conversion of an existing mail processing plant at Canada Post Main Processing Centre in Vancouver.
Bouygues is currently constructing the new RCMP Surrey facility, which started in 2010 and will conclude in 2013.
The Green Timbers Accommodation Partners consortium sponsors consist of HSBC Infrastructure, Bouygues Bâtiment International and ETDE Facility Management Canada.
Other team members include: Kasian Architecture, which is leading the design of the facility with construction being undertaken by Bouygues Building Canada and Bird Construction.
A project agreement between the Government of Canada and Green Timbers Accommodation Partners was signed on April 22, 2010 for a fixed price of $966 million.
The Churchill Corporation reported in May that Stuart Olson Dominion Construction Ltd. general contracting segment has been awarded $117 million in contracts in Western Canada, including the $55 million expansion of the Vancouver Aquarium.
As well, in July, the company received contracts for three new Alberta hospitals projects valued at about $421 million.
The hospitals are located in Medicine Hat, Lethbridge and Edson, Alberta.
Bird Construction recently acquired the outstanding shares of H.J. O’Connell, Limited in a transaction valued at $77.5 million plus $1 million in costs subject to closing adjustments.
HJO is known for heavy civil construction, infrastructure builds, and industrial construction such as in the mining industry.
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