CALGARY, Alta. - The City of Calgary has opened the contract competition to build the Green Line LRT’s two elevated stations, posting a request for proposals on November 5, 2026 for the stations at Ramsay/Inglewood and 26 Avenue S.E.
The posting moves the southeast Green Line from design work toward a construction contract. Three of Canada’s largest builders, EllisDon, Graham and PCL, were shortlisted through a prequalification round that opened August 1, 2025 and closed September 22, 2025, and those firms are now invited to bid on the full construction package. The City lists the contract status as “Not Started,” and its project page does not publish a contract value or an award date.
What the contract covers
According to the City’s Green Line project page, the package includes the two elevated stations themselves, meaning the station facilities plus their mechanical, electrical, plumbing, lighting and surrounding plazas, along with two utility buildings, one at Ramsay and one at 26 Avenue. It also covers the 12 Street Bridge guideway, including duct banks and the foundations for the overhead power equipment, roadworks on 26 Avenue, and the associated earthworks, multi-use pathways and utility work.
Elevated stations sit above street level on the line’s raised guideway rather than at ground level. Ramsay/Inglewood and 26 Avenue S.E. are the two stops on the southeast line designed that way. On the City’s station list, they are the last two new stations before the line reaches the Event Centre/Grand Central station at the downtown end of the route, which runs south through Highfield, Lynnwood/Millican, Ogden, South Hill, Quarry Park and Douglas Glen to Shepard.
How the competition is being run
The prequalification stage was overseen by an independent third-party Fairness Monitor, a watchdog role Canadian governments use on large procurements to confirm every bidder was treated equally. Only the three shortlisted firms can submit proposals.
Why this matters
The Green Line is Calgary’s new light-rail line and the largest transit expansion in the city’s modern history, and the southeast segment has been its most politically difficult piece. A live proposal call for station construction is one of the clearest signals that the southeast line is advancing from planning into building. Station contracts also tend to lock in a line’s design: once a builder is chosen for the elevated stations, the plazas, access points and street connections around Ramsay/Inglewood and 26 Avenue S.E. become fixed, shaping how those neighbourhoods connect to the CTrain network for decades.
For construction workers and suppliers, the package is significant on its own: two full stations, a bridge guideway and roadworks in one contract is the kind of project the three shortlisted firms compete hardest for. The City’s page will carry the contract’s status as the competition proceeds.
(Source: City of Calgary, Green Line LRT project page, updated November 6, 2026)
Byline: Apna News
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