NUS PPP to shortlist 3 bidders

Singapore university PPP project to shortlist three
IJ Online 29 June 2007

The National University of Singapore (NUS) is set to shortlist three consortia from five pre-qualified bidders to DBFOM a new S$600 million (US$395m) campus in the university town - writes Robert Lovell

Having whittled down the bids to three, the NUS will select a preferred bidder by 2008 for the PPP project - known as University Town @ Warren.

The five consortia are:

• Campus Living Villages - Campus Living Villages, Transfield Holdings, APP International, Kohn Pederson Fox Associates PC, A+I International, Umow Lai, Tierra, Meinhardt (Singapore), WT Partnership, China Construction, Keppel FMO, Deloitte, ANZ, Freehills and Campus Living Villages
• Gammon Capital - Gammon Capital, HSBC, Allen & Overy, Turner & Townsend Cost,Knight Frank, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, DP Architects, Sitetectonix, Beca Carter, Hollings & Ferner (SE Asia), Systra MVA Singapore, Connell Wagner, Acviron Acoustics Consultants, Environmental Resources Management, Gammon Construction (Singapore) and Woh Hup Construction JV and United PREMAS
• Living Education - Babcock & Brown, Sembawang Contractors & Engineers, Honeywell & Serco Guthrie, UniLodge, Cox Group, RSP Architects, Squire Mech, Davis Landon & Seah, Citta Group, Evans & Peck and Urbis JHD
• Plenary Learning Consortium - Plenary Group, Deutsche Bank, ISS Facility ServicesOperations, Architects 61, Woods Bagot, Arup Consultants and Engineers, WT Partnership and Allen Arthur Robinson
• Uni Living - Macquarie Bank, Shimizu Corporation, BurtHill, CPG Corporation, United Engineers, University Partnerships Programme and WT Partnership

The campus will include:

• accommodation for up to 6000 students
• new town centre
• sports and recreation facilities
• leisure and retail facilities
• integration with academic and research facilities

KPMG conducted a PPP feasibility study and is financial adviser, Lovells Lee & Lee is legal adviser and Mott MacDonald is technical adviser.

The project is due to reach financial close and start construction in mid 2008, it will be operational by mid 2010.