GO Expansion – Program Delivery Partner

SYSTRA, as part of the MCS joint venture with Mace and Comtech, is the Program Delivery Partner for GO Expansion.

The GO Expansion (GOE) program is an unprecedented and highly complex project, involving over $11 billion in early works projects and a further $12 billion+ in “on corridor” re-signalling, electrification and trackwork. It will transform the GO rail network into an all-day, rapid transit system.

This ambitious rail program is Metrolinx’s largest and most ambitious endeavour to date and so they required a highly capable program delivery partner to help them manage the complexity of delivery and enhance Metrolinx’s own capability through skills development, process and procedure writing, and tool enhancement. MCS currently have over 200-people integrated with Metrolinx, managing both the program but also stepping in to help individual project delivery.

The scope of our work for Metrolinx, as a member of the MCS joint venture includes:

• Support program and project delivery by leveraging international expertise in program and project management;
• Develop world leading program controls systems, tools and dashboards to monitor performance across all projects;
• Develop training, systems and tools to enhance Metrolinx’s inhouse capability for the future;
• Bring Systems Integration expertise across the complexity of multiple projects, interfaces, and systems;
• Develop, implement and monitor safety and engineering assurance standards and procedures;
• Develop and implement systems engineering and safety assurance, guiding projects through governance and assurance;
• Develop the Information Management/BIM capability, bring efficiency to design delivery and asset handover;
• Mitigate strategic and inter-project risk through deployment of governance and knowledgeable design reviews;
• Bring Innovation and Digital Transformation to ensure decision makers have the right information at the right time;
• Develop and Monitor Rail Corridor Access.
• Provided embedded resources across all levels of the program and project delivery organization.