CN And BC Rail Invite Proposals for Operation of Third-Party Passenger Tourist Trains In B.C.Business Editors VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 5, 2003 CN (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CNI (1) (Certified NetWare Instructor) See Novell certification. (2) (Coalition for Networked Information, Washington, DC, www.cni.org) A partnership of the Association of Research Libraries, CAUSE and EDUCOM, founded in 1990. )(TSX TSX Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE before April, 2002) TSX Transfer from Stack Pointer to Index TSX True Space Extension :CNR See riser card. CNR - Communication and Network Riser ) and BC Rail invite proposals from qualified parties to operate third-party passenger tourist trains over BC Rail's network between North Vancouver North Vancouver, city (1991 pop. 38,436), SW British Columbia, Canada, on Burrard Inlet of the Strait of Georgia, opposite Vancouver, of which it is a suburb. Shipbuilding, woodworking, and the shipping of grain, lumber, and ore are the chief industries. and Prince George Prince George, city (1991 pop. 69,653), central British Columbia, Canada, at the confluence of the Fraser and Nechako rivers. It is a railroad division point and a distribution center for a lumber region. , and on CN's line between Prince Rupert, Prince George and Jasper, Alta. CN committed itself to a prompt call for passenger tourist train proposals in its BC Rail partnership agreement with the British Columbia government. The new passenger tourist trains are expected to generate significant new economic activity in B.C., particularly in the province's Interior and northern regions. CN and BC Rail have retained InterVISTAS Consulting Inc. to manage the request for proposals (RFP (Request For Proposal) A document that invites a vendor to submit a bid for hardware, software and/or services. It may provide a general or very detailed specification of the system. 1. (business) RFP - Request for Proposal. 2. ) process. Any qualified party interested in submitting a proposal to operate passenger tourist trains should notify InterVISTAS of its intent, in writing, by Dec. 16, 2003. Formal proposals must be submitted to InterVISTAS no later than 4 p.m. Pacific Standard Time Feb. 9, 2004, at its corporate address: InterVISTAS Consulting Inc., Airport Square, Suite 550, 1200 West 73rd Ave., Vancouver, B.C., V6P 6G5. Among the criteria CN and BC Rail will apply in assessing proposals are new economic development for communities along BC Rail and CN lines through increased B.C. tourism, improved rail access to the 2010 Olympic facilities in Whistler, B.C., and the creation of railway and associated jobs to prepare and operate the new train services. Proponents will also be asked to demonstrate community-specific benefits from the new services. All communications and/or questions and/or requests for clarification regarding the RFP must be directed to Paul Ouimet, Senior Vice-President - Business and Strategic Planning, InterVISTAS Consulting Inc., at the company's corporate address. Ouimet can also be reached by telephone - 604-717-1803; fax - 604-717-1818, or by email, paul_ouimet@intervistas.com. The B.C. government has enacted legislation authorizing the CN/BC Rail partnership. The transaction is subject to approval by Canada's Competition Bureau and is expected to close in the first quarter of 2004. The RFP document for the operation of third-party passenger tourist trains, along with information on the partnership and maps of the combined CN/BC Rail networks, is available on CN's web site at www.cn.ca/BCRailpartnership/, or click on the CN-BC Rail icon on CN's home page, www.cn.ca/. The document is also available on BC Rail's web site, www.bcrail.com/ Canadian National Railway Company Canadian National Railway Company (NYSE: CNI, TSX: CNR) is a Canadian rail transportation company that operates the Canadian National Railway. It was created in December, 1918 as a Crown corporation of the Government of Canada to nationalize several bankrupt rail systems spans Canada and mid-America, from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to the Gulf of Mexico Noun 1. Gulf of Mexico - an arm of the Atlantic to the south of the United States and to the east of Mexico Golfo de Mexico Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean - the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east , serving the ports of Vancouver, Prince Rupert, B.C., Montreal, Halifax, New Orleans, and Mobile, Ala., and the key cities of Toronto, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Duluth, Minn./Superior, Wis., Green Bay, Wis., Minneapolis/St. Paul, Memphis, St. Louis, and Jackson, Miss., with connections to all points in North America. |
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