Engineering Study for Malaysia-Singapore Rapid Transit System Link

Mr Ang Wei Neng asked the Minister for Transport (a) what is the scope of the US$42 million contract awarded to AECOM Technology for an engineering study of the Malaysia-Singapore Rapid Transit System (RTS) Link; (b) who are the other bidders for the contract and what are their prices; and (c) what is Singapore's share of the US$42 million contract.

The Singapore Land Transport Authority (LTA) and the Malaysia Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD)8 had jointly awarded the contract for the architectural and engineering consultancy study for the RTS Link between Singapore and Johor Bahru to the consortium of AECOM Singapore Pte Ltd, AECOM Perunding Sdn Bhd and SA Architects Sdn Bhd. Under the contract, the consultant has to develop feasible alignment options for the RTS Link and carry out a detailed engineering design of the adopted option. The option to be adopted will be decided by the Singapore-Malaysia Joint Ministerial Committee (JMC) for Iskandar Malaysia (IM).

In addition to AECOM, seven other companies submitted bids for the contract, namely Arup Singapore Pte Ltd, CPG Consultants Pte Ltd, Egis Rail from France, Jurong Consultants Pte Ltd, Meinhardt Infrastructure Pte Ltd, Mott MacDonald Pte Ltd and TY Lin International Pte Ltd. Their prices ranged from around S$28 million to more than S$60 million.

The awarded contract sum of S$52.8 million for the RTS Link consultancy study is to be shared equally between Malaysia and Singapore. Singapore's share is S$26.4 million.