Illawarra-based City Coast Services is leveraging a successful contract via Gateway by ICN with the Jervis Bay Road upgrade into negotiating for work, including submitting an expression of interest (EOI) on a power upgrade in Albury.
City Coast Service has been in business for nearly 25 years, and according to Director Darryl Smith, has established itself as a “one-stop-shop”, offering everything from truck body manufacturing to civil engineering and contracting. Most recently, the company had been fitting out imported Foton electric trucks with their locally manufactured tipper bodies made from BlueScope steel.
According to Darryl, the company’s longevity and success stem from a commitment to “learning and improving” and recognising a need.
“We look for areas where there’s an undersupply. That’s how we started fabricating and manufacturing. We just built Australia’s first electric tipper for Foton trucks. We’re doing a lot of council trucks and are working to expand our manufacturing and fabrication arm to keep jobs in the Illawarra—or at least NSW,” Darryl said.
The company was awarded the contract for service location and wet plant hire at the Jervis Bay Road – Princes Highway Intersection Upgrade project.
Their role involved locating all the power infrastructure and then use a non-destructive digging (NDD) vacuum truck to expose the cables and pipes so workers don’t dig through them.
The 8-month project allowed City Cost Services to employ 5 local workers in the Shoalhaven area and generated additional job opportunities from the initial contract.
“We’ve had extra smaller projects from that job, because they have seen us.”
“We do the work and they ask, can you dig through the footpath with your excavator? Yep. Then they ask have you got plumbers? Yep we’ve got plumbers. Have you got electricians? Yep, we’ve got electricians.”
City Coast Services has been an ICN subscriber for about 5 years and been introduced to project opportunities through ICN representatives, including John Mills, ICN Regional Manager, Illawarra and South East NSW.
“ICN is involved in the Albury power upgrade, and they had a meeting in the Illawarra. It was good to meet the people involved,” Darryl said, adding that the company has submitted an EOI for the project.
City Coast Services actively uses ICN Gateway to explore potential opportunities and then uses networking and connections to develop the business.
Darryl sees ICN as a valuable return on investment and as a potential source of future business opportunities.
Find out more about City Coast Services.
