by Jeff Smith
Project manager chosen: Northjersey.com
A consequential contract is approved to kick-start the Gateway rail tunnel project
The Gateway Development Commission board approved an agreement with its project delivery partner Wednesday — awarding what is arguably one of the single most consequential contracts required to deliver the $16.1 billion Hudson River tunnels project.
A joint venture of Parsons Corporation, Arcadis of New York Inc. and Mace North America Limited — what will be known as MPA Delivery Partners — was chosen from a shortlist of three options to provide project management for the program, which includes building a new two-track rail tunnel under the Hudson between North Jersey and Manhattan and then rehabilitating the 110-year-old two-track tube still in use, which was seriously damaged by Superstorm Sandy in 2012.
MPA Delivery Partners will be "the arms and legs" that enable the Gateway Development Commission to "continue to move this project in high gear as we prepare for heavy construction to start," commission co-chairs Balpreet Grewal-Virk and Alicia Glen said in a joint statement.
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