Procurement approach
Metro Vancouver is fostering an integrated, collaborative, and flexible approach to the delivery of the Iona Island Wastewater Treatment Plant Projects. This strategy will enable Metro Vancouver to respond to ongoing program development, competing priorities, and market conditions — all of which will inform the detailed implementation and procurement process over an approximately 15-year design and construction period.
Our innovative delivery strategy offers opportunities for contracts of all sizes to optimize local economic development, while also encouraging global interest.
Working on this project, proponents can expect:
- To protect public health, improve the marine environment, and help to enhance ecosystems
- To work on leading-edge technologies
- A variety of complex work opportunities that require a wide-range of skillsets
- Career building revenue-generating certainty
- Succession planning opportunities that enable teams and individuals to grow their networks in an exciting and dynamic region
Procurement schedule
The following timeline is the anticipated start of procurements during the Early Works and Preliminary Design phase of the Iona Island Wastewater Treatment Plant Projects. Schedule is subject to change.
Wastewater treatment plant
Procurement item
| Service type | 2025
| 2026 |
---|
Q1 | Q2 |
Q3 |
Q4 |
Q1 |
Q2 |
Q3 |
Q4
|
Early electrical works - Construction power | Construction services
| | | |
| | | WWTP |
|
Early electrical field works - Standby power system | Construction services | | | WWTP |
| | | |
|
Pilot testing – specialized sample analysis for contaminants of emerging concern (CECs)
| Laboratory services | | | | WWTP | | | |
|
Pilot testing – general sample analysis
| Laboratory services | | | WWTP | | | | |
|
Southeast lagoon fill
| Construction services | | | WWTP | | | | |
|
Raptor nest management
| Consulting and construction services | |
| | WWTP | | | |
|
Northeast lagoon infill
| Consulting services
| | | | WWTP | | | |
|
*Dates in this timeline are subject to change
WWTP - Wastewater Treatment Plant
OAP - Offsite and Adjacent Projects