CIVIL 790 - City Rail Link Project: Stakeholder and Procurement Report

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the City Rail Link (CRL) project, an ongoing infrastructure development in Auckland, New Zealand. It details the project's scope, including the construction of a 3.5 km double-track rail tunnel and new underground stations, connecting Britomart Transport Centre and Mount Eden Railway Station. The report outlines stakeholder responsibilities, categorizing them into responsible, impacted, and interested groups, and discusses various contract types, including unit pricing contracts. Furthermore, it addresses social, cultural, environmental, and economic considerations associated with the project, alongside an essay on procurement processes, including general procurement, different procurement types, and a detailed analysis of alliance contracts. The report emphasizes the importance of effective stakeholder management and procurement strategies for the successful execution of the CRL project. The project's funding, timelines, and the involvement of key stakeholders like the New Zealand government, construction contractors, and train operators are also thoroughly examined.

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Executive Summary
City Rail Link is read project which is an ongoing construction process established in
Auckland, New Zealand. It is a mega project consisting of about 4.4 billion USD equivalent
for the construction of a 3.5 km double track rail tunnel which has to be built underneath the
city centre of Auckland. This would form a link between the Britomart Transport Centre and
the Mount Eden Railway Station. The development of the City Rail Link is associated with
double track query with the development of new underground stations constructed for the
centre of the city. The current project is an adaptive version which is developed from the
previous proposal delivered for building a rail access towards the city centre of Auckland. It
is extremely important to have a plan develop for building the project that would have a
transport investment from the heart of the city to anywhere. The proposal received dispute
support from the public but there was an issue regarding the significant cost and associated
difficulty due to the size and budget of the project. It was found that the project funding was
also a subject of controversy. The central government scheme for word for supporting the
project so that the construction can begin by the year 2020. This was 4 years late than the
proposed time of beginning 2016. The City Rail Link development has already started and it
is to be completed by the year 2024 as per the project is schedule and according to the budget
allocation in sponsorship that the project is receiving. The internship awarded for name the
project director for the organisation and the construction project requires accessing the
internal information for the project. As instructed, the information about the project has been
gathered including the understanding of the project in details. The types of stakeholder
responsibilities and relationship associated with the project has been described in details
along with a short essay provided on procurement procedures. It also has to be kept in mind
that along with the project comes in the stakeholders and their responsibilities or relationships
with the project. This includes the key stakeholders of the city rail link, who would be

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associated with the development and construction of the project either directly or indirectly.
Since the project would also be funded and organised by the government of New Zealand,
they are also to be serving as a primary stakeholder project. The roles of the key stakeholders
are also identified in the report as below along with the hierarchical structure of the
stakeholder within the construction project, identify all the associated direct and indirect
stakeholders to the project. With the description of all these associated roles and
responsibilities of the stakeholders, there is another important inclusion that needs to be done
for the discussion, and these are the procurement plan that mostly construction organisations
are implementing. What is successful project from the implementation of a procurement plan
is to be developed in such a way that every member within the organisation is associated and
acquainted with the process by which required in of resources for the project would be done.

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Table of Contents
a. Stakeholder responsibilities and relationships...................................................................4
b. Social, cultural, environmental, and economic considerations..........................................5
c. What the project involves...................................................................................................5
References................................................................................................................................10

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a. Stakeholder responsibilities and relationships
Responsibilities
The primary or key stakeholders for this particular project for the development of City
Rail Link includes the construction contractors, the train operator under the organisation of
Transdev, Kiwirail that is an organisation working as the owner, the network operator and the
train supplier AT and CAF. The government of New Zealand is also a key stakeholder for the
project.
Roles
The stakeholders are extremely required for the success of this particular project
because they are affected by the project either directly or indirectly. All the stakeholders, who
are associated to the project directly and indirectly who play the role of a positive decision
maker and also the controller of project schedules and budget, event providing feedback on
the product after manufacturing and controlling the scheduling and budgetary parameters
further setting milestone dates for the project (Jardine & Riley, 2017).
Hierarchies
Hierarchical structure of stakeholders in a construction project like the City Rail Link
can be divided into three proper stakeholder groups. These would include the responsible
stakeholder, the impacted stakeholder and the interested stakeholder. Responsible
stakeholders would include the facility manager, the supplier, the consultant, the project
manager, the investor, insurance company, bank, bonding company, owner, contractor,
general contractor, subcontractor, engineer, designer architect, and regulator (Talbot & Lehn,
2018). The impacted stakeholder include society Development group, economic interest
group, environmental interest group, local business, local community and building end user.
Interested stakeholders would include The Economist, sociologist, and media representatives

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Contract types
There are several types of contract within a construction project, which has four
variants of common construction contracts. Out of which, the City Rail Link belongs to the
type of contract listed as below:
Unit pricing contract: It is a type of contract that is commonly used by Federal
Agencies and builders where a building process is utilised and the specific quantities and
pricing is determined before the construction project for the unit and items. As per the
confirmed information from the government, the organisation has been founded a proposed
share of about 50% for the development of the project where the estimated budget is about
2.8 and 3.4 billion USD equivalent. Since it has to tender for the remaining contract
therefore, it is the type of unit pricing contract.
Contract signatories
The signing authority would like with the chief executive officer or CEO of the
organisation or the president of the organisation for KiwiRail. Any other person is not able to
sign on behalf of the CEO or the president if they are not authorised to do so.
b. Social, cultural, environmental, and economic considerations
It needs to be kept in mind that the main environmental factors that can affect the
construction project like the organisational, human resources and technological system,
climate conditions, location, economy, client requirement are all considered as a primary
factor for the project.
c. What the project involves
The City Rail Link project include the construction of 3.4 kilometres double track rail
tunnel, which has to be built under the city centre of Auckland, New Zealand (Wong, San
Chan & Wadu, 2016). It includes the components of patients and tunnels comprising of the

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largest packages including Aotea station, Karangahape station, TransDev and additional work
including control Centre, tunnel ventilation system, fire engineering design, construction of
the station and tunnel and station architectural finishes with the services provided to the
building (Ireland, Newns, Chau & Hawkins, 2017).

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Essay on procurement
Introduction
The process of procurement in construction includes the process of obtaining a
product or service within the construction project. This particular essay would include the
general procurement process procurement types, comprehensive insight on Alliance contracts
and real life example of alliance contracts.
General procurement
Procurement is a procedure in general construction projects where the primary work is
to acquire goods and services required for the project. The construction management process
also requires the proper systematic way of securing the necessary goods and services for the
proper construction project to begin its procedure (Habibi, Kermanshachi & Safapour, 2018).
There are several factors working against the general basic project procurement management
steps which includes the timelines, acceptable quality of the product acquired from the
clients, the respecting of financial parameters including reasonable pricing, minimising and
mitigating the risk factors ensuring the satisfaction of the clients by understanding the
requirements and effectively communicating and administrative the entire project process.
All the simply add value to the construction project so that the clients can have an idea of
what they require including the acceptable prices, reliable schedule and without the
occurrence of any unnecessary. The process of procurement initially begins with the project
team and during the planning process.
Procurement types
There are several types of procurement methods in the construction industry. These
are mostly classified according to the requirements of the general methods of a project
progression during the entire procedure of construction. The following would be the
discussion about the typical categorisation of procurement process:

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General contracting: This procurement process is a traditional type of procurement
method which is carried on by agreeing to a contractor and the designers for a particular
construction provided by the clients and selected by the employer (Ajayi, Oyedele, Akinade,
Bilal, Alaka & Owolabi, 2017). The contact price is dependent on the quantity required for
the project and the contractor takes the responsibility of the construction only and not for the
design. The contractor works occasionally on the project without the bill of quantities. This
method of contracting is popular as the employees and contractors has the most experience of
working in this method.
Design and build: This is the type of procurement that comes in innumerable
procedures but it is typically analysed by the Constructions and its design and construction
responsibility taken totally by the contractor. The design and building is developed by the
contractor which is done based on the set of requirements provided by the employer.
Construction management: This is the procurement route that works under the
different trade contracts which includes the management done by a proper construction
manager who has no contractual links with either the members of the design team of the trade
contractors.
Management contracting: This type of procurement procedure is done when a
construction work is completed using a series of separate works or trade contracts. Design
mostly followed or appointed with the help of tender and negotiations where what packages
are led by the competitive tenders.
Comprehensive insight on Alliance Contracts
Alliance contracting is mostly an arrangement of contract made between the
Commissioner and Alliance of the parties for delivering any product, construction project or
service. There is a particular share of risk that all the parties take responsibility of with the

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collective ownership of each other consisting of all the opportunities and responsibilities that
are associated with the project delivery or the Service Delivery to the end users (Shen et al.,
2017). The alliance of parties or commissioner that are residing within a contract for the
construction project are known as strategic Alliance partners for pursuing the agreed upon
objectives. All the parties are including in the contract because of the individual short of legal
partnership, entity agency or other corporate affiliated relationships.
Real life example of Alliance Contracts
The alliance contract where first developed through the US Army corps of Engineers
when did try to reduce the likelihood of litigations within the organisation and also the
associated risk with the overall of cost and delays that was running through the Portland
division project. The administrative cost and associated defence cases were removed and the
probability of project financial success were enhanced as an outcome.
Conclusion
In conclusion, it can be set that the procurement process in construction is categorised
into several types for acquiring the services and goods required for the project. The types of
project might be different or even the procedures for acquiring the goods and services might
be different as well. All these have been kept in mind for categorising the types of
procurement procedures even developing them into Alliance contracts. Above has been a
comprehensive insight provided on Alliance contract with a real life example cited.

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