October 26, 2011

Infrastructure Ontario hosting 2015 Toronto Pan Am Games venue bidders’ meeting

Infrastructure Ontario announced it will hold a meeting Friday at the Toronto Delta Chelsea Hotel for companies interested in bidding on some venues for the Toronto 2015 Pan/Parapan American Games. Deadline to register is Thursday, October 27.

The meeting is scheduled at 2:00 p.m. Friday, October 28 in the Wren Room of the Delta Chelsea Hotel, 33 Gerrard Street West, Toronto, according to the Infrastructure Ontario website.

The meeting is for those interested in requests for qualifications for the Pan American Markham Pool & Field House, Etobicoke Olympium and Pan Am Field Hockey Centre. Those interested in participating must register in advance, no later than Thursday October 27, by sending contact details, field of business and number of participants to Arlene Joseph of Infrastructure Ontario.

At the bidders’ meeting, Infrastructure Ontario says it plans to give background information about the projects and the RFQ process, and give firms the opportunity to network.

Infrastructure Ontario is handling the competitive bidding process for various construction projects associated with the games.

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In August, Infrastructure Ontario invited three teams to bid on the Pan American Aquatics Centre, field house and Canadian Sport Institute Ontario facility, to be located at the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus.

The pre-qualified bidders are:

• Aquatic Consortium of Toronto 2015, comprised of PCL Constructors Canada Inc., NORR Ltd., Counsilman–Hunsaker and TD Securities;

• Hunt-Urbacon LP, which includes Hunt Construction Group Inc., Urbacon Ltd.'s buildings group, WZMH Architects (formerly known as The Webb, Zerafa, Menkes, Housden Partnership), 360 Architecture and CIT Financial; and

• United Toronto, which includes Laing O’Rourke, Bondfield Construction, ZAS Architects, Populous, RMJM Sport Rocklynn Capital Inc. and KPMG LLP.

In June, the RFP stage closed for the construction of the Athletes’ Village project in Toronto, in a former industrial area east of the central business district known as West Don Lands.

The three teams that were short-listed and invited to submit bids were:

• Dundee Kilmer Developments Limited, including constructors EllisDon Corp and Ledcor Design Build and architectural firm architectsAlliance;

• Legacy Village Partners, including constructors PCL and Deltera and architectural firm IBI; and

• Village Infrastructure Partners, including constructor Saddlebrook and architectural firm B+H Architects

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