RFPQ-3864-26 - General Contractors for Kennedy BRT Widening Project

The Region will ONLY accept ELECTRONIC BID SUBMISSIONS submitted through the Region’s Bids and Tenders website for this Request for Prequalification. HARD COPY BID SUBMISSIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Responses must be submitted and received by the Region no later than 1:00:00 p.m., Eastern Standard Time. 

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF WORK: The Region intends to issue individual Requests for Tender (“RFT”) for the Kennedy BRT Projects within the City of Markham from YMCA BLVD to Highway 7. The Deliverables include, but are not limited to the following for construction start in 2027. 

• Rehabilitate and widen urban roadway, from the existing two-lane road to a six-lane roadway including two centre Bus Rapid Transit(BRT) lanes. 
• Earth excavation and grading
• Bridge rehabilitation over the Rouge River (ID#03-06 B0400) including conversion to semi-integral abutment. 
• Shallow foundation centre BRT stations
• Curb Side YRT bus stops
• Storm Sewers, super pipes and LID structures
• Work within TRCA regulated lands
• Asphalt Paving & pavement markings
• Retaining walls
• Starting construction as utilities finish off relocations.
• Traffic staging that will require maintaining access and all existing lanes of traffic
• Signals and Illumination replacement, including cantilever poles with deep foundations
• Dedicated bicycle signals & bus transit signals
• Private and commercial driveway restoration
• Tight property constraints with retaining walls to support private properties
• Sidewalk and uni-directional cycle track installation
• Municipal services reinstatement 
• Pavement markings and signage
• Medians with planter boxes requiring irrigation
• Accelerated construction in one area of the working limits due to the Honda Indy Race event every year in the summer. 

For complete bid details, refer to the RFPQ documents.

MANDATORY REQUIREMENT: 

• OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (OHSMS) CERTIFICATION PROGRAM: Any responses received from respondents who do not meet the OHSMS certification requirements, as stated in RFPQ Particulars (Appendix A), shall be rejected from further consideration.  

QUESTIONS:  Questions related to this RFPQ should be submitted to the Region through the Bidding Website by clicking on the 'Submit a Question' button.

ACCOMMODATION REQUESTS: Accommodation requests under AODA should be directed to the Region's Procurement Representative via email to Denise.French@york.ca