BACKGROUND work on the replacement of Stingray Creek Bridge continues.
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Port Macquarie-Hastings Council earlier this month hosted an early tender involvement workshop.
The workshop was held at the Emergency Operations Centre in Central Road.
The workshop was attended by council's bridge designers OPUS International Pty Ltd and six short-listed construction companies.
The workshop was facilitated by NSW Public Works and included both open and closed sessions during which the bridge replacement project was discussed in detail.
Council's director infrastructure and asset management, Jeffery Sharp, said the ETI process had been endorsed by the Stingray Creek Bridge Replacement Project Steering Group to enable the tender process to commence ahead of the finalisation of detailed designs.
He said involvement of all the tenderers prior to the issue of formal tender documentation would help expedite delivery of the bridge replacement project.
Council used a similar process when it was planning for upgrades to both the Lake Cathie-Bonny Hills Sewage Treatment Plant and the Dunbogan Sewage Treatment Plant.
The replacement of the Stingray Creek Bridge is being jointly funded by Council and the State Government.
There have been delays associated with finalisation of the detailed designs because of the need for additional geotechnical investigations, service relocations, an Aboriginal land claim and land acquisition matters.
The anticipated construction time line from the awarding of tenders to bridge completion will be 18 months.