The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) and the Philippine National Railways (PNR) launched a rehabilitation program with the goal of re-opening the PNR’s Bicol Express service. Below are some of PNR’s capital improvement projects:
- Track Rehabilitation from Tutuban to Los Baños Laguna
- Double Tracking from Sucat to Alabang
- Track Ballasting for Hondagua Division
- Railway Bridges Repair and Rehabilitation
- Station Development and Station Yard Fencing
- Reconstruction/Renovation of Station Buildings including platform and passenger shelter improvements
- Repair of Nine (9) Diesel Multiple Units (DMUs)
- Rehabilitation of Three (3) Locomotives
Below are the actual services provided (on the above capital improvement projects as well as other minor PNR improvement projects):
- Assistance to Bidding
- Preparation/review of bid documents and evaluation criteria including contract documents
- Assistance during pre-bid conferences
- Assistance in evaluation of technical and financial proposals
- Assistance in contract negotiations
- Construction Quality Assurance
- Review of Project Quality Assurance Plan
- Quality Assurance Plan implementation
- Field Inspection
- Project Scheduling
- Contract Dispute Assistance and Resolution
- Constructability / Value Engineering Reviews
- Factory Inspection
- Job Site Safety
- Capacity Building (on Financial Management / Asset Management)
The DCCD-PRIMEX-ALAI-EDCOP-SYSTRA Joint Venture bagged this 18-month project that ended in February 2017, for which SYSTRA was the internal technical lead partner.
