Auckland Transport (AT) has been recognised for its procurement success at the EY New Zealand Procurement Excellence Awards.
The City Rail Link won the Sustainability Project of the Year and AT's Procurement Manager for Infrastructure, Dave Colquhoun was a finalist in the Procurement Professional of the Year award.
The judges say the CRL, New Zealand's largest and most complex infrastructure project, "has been designed to the highest sustainability standards, standards unprecedented in New Zealand, with the design being recognised as 'leading' by the Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australasia.
"The challenge to the team was to develop and embed these standards at the procurement stage across a project comprising eight different contracts. Taking learnings from the first contracting processes and expanding traditional notions of environmentally friendly outcomes to consider long-term social outcomes, we have no doubt that under the guidance of their procurement team with a focus on sustainability design, the CRL will be constructed and managed to the highest standards."
