CRLL delivered New Zealand's largest-ever transport infrastructure project: a $5.4B underground rail link, including 3.5km of twin tunnels and two new underground stations serving Auckland's CBD.

Mid-procurement, CRLL shifted the Stations and Tunnels Package (C3) from an ECI model to a Project Alliance, and expanded its scope to absorb the former C7 package plus 9-car train works — creating a "super-alliance."

PCI's role:

• Supported CRLL's shift in strategy from ECI to alliance, developing the alliance procurement and establishment plan using a twin-TOC selection process

• Provided input to the RFP and other market-facing documentation

• Ran team preparation workshops for CRLL owner's team

• Structured detailed compensation terms for the alliance contracts

• Facilitated proponent selection interviews and behavioural assessments 

• Facilitated commercial alignment on contract terms and on target adjustment (variation) guidelines — critical to embedding a genuinely collaborative mindset

Outcomes:

• Alliance dynamically rescheduled and rebuilt momentum after Covid-19 shutdowns, earning high praise from project directors

• All civil, track and signalling works completed and the 3.5km twin-tunnel infrastructure handed over to KiwiRail and Auckland Transport on schedule

• Achieved a "Leading" Infrastructure Sustainability (IS rating 81.34) and a 23% reduction in lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions

• Secured maximum points for cultural narratives and water quality safeguards, in alignment with local Mana Whenua