The agency responsible for key rail infrastructure projects between Newark, N.J., and New York City’s Penn Station plans to seek a private partner for the planned $16.1-billion Hudson River tunnel replacement project. The Gateway Development Commission plans to issue an RFQ this month for a project delivery partner on the megaproject, CEO Kris Kolluri said at a Dec. 12 public meeting.
The partner is needed to ensure the commission has the technical, management, financial and organizational capacities to receive federal funding and to deliver the project efficiently, as well as to make sure its execution team looks “at innovative and flexible project delivery mechanisms,” Kolluri said.
