The concessionaire for Highway 407 East Phase 2 PPP project - Blackbird Infrastructure 407 General Partnership and Blackbird Constructors 407 General Partnership received the project’s Final Completion Certificate on July 31, 2020. The project was procured on Design-Build-Finance-Operate-Maintain (DBFOM) model. The Highway 407 East Phase 2 project now extends Highway 407 22 kilometers (13.7 miles) from Oshawa to Highway 35/115 in Clarington, ON.   It connects Highways 401 and 407 East with the 10-kilometer (6.2 miles) Highway 418 and overall provides eight new interchanges, including three freeway-to-freeway connections.  

Work on the project started in May 2015 and achieved Substantial Completion in November 2019, opening to traffic in early December 2019. During the final completion phase, more than 6,300 inspections and tests were performed to confirm the project’s work quality.