Metro - File #: 2021-0338

• File #: 2021-0338
• Type: Contract
• Status: Consent Calendar
• File created: 5/13/2021
• In control: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
• On agenda: 7/22/2021
• Title: AUTHORIZE the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to award a 24-month, firm fixed price Task Order, No. AE74716-5433000 under Countywide Planning and Development Bench Contract No. PS54330007, to Chen Ryan Associates for the Los Angeles County Rail Network Integration Study in an amount of $1,680,301. Board approval of task order award is subject to resolution of all properly submitted protest(s), if any.
• Sponsors: Planning and Programming Committee
• Indexes: Amtrak, Arroyo Verdugo subregion, Bob Hope Airport, Budget, Budgeting, Burbank, California High Speed Rail, California State Transportation Agency, Contracts, Grant Aid, Light rail transit, Long range planning, Long Range Transportation Plan, Metro Busway G Line, Metro Rail L Line, Metrolink, North San Fernando Valley Transit Corridor, Partnerships, Pasadena, Plan, Procurement, Rail transit, San Fernando Valley Service Sector, San Fernando Valley subregion, Strategic planning, Torrance, Transfers, Transit System

Date	Action By	Action	Result
7/22/2021	Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
7/14/2021	Planning and Programming Committee

Meeting_Body
PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
JULY 14, 2021

Subject
SUBJECT: LOS ANGELES COUNTY RAIL NETWORK INTEGRATION STUDY

Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATION

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
AUTHORIZE the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to award a 24-month, firm fixed price Task Order, No. AE74716-5433000 under Countywide Planning and Development Bench Contract No. PS54330007, to Chen Ryan Associates for the Los Angeles County Rail Network Integration Study in an amount of $1,680,301. Board approval of task order award is subject to resolution of all properly submitted protest(s), if any.

Issue
ISSUE

As an award recipient of the 2018 Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program (TIRCP) from the California State Transportation Agency (CalSTA), Metro is responsible for implementing transit capital improvements that will broaden and modernize transit connectivity in Los Angeles County (LA County) and the Southern California region. Board approval of this task order is needed in order to proceed with this TIRCP grant-funded Rail Network Integration Study (Study) for LA County and fulfill the current TIRCP Network Integration Framework Agreement between Metro and CalSTA.

Background
BACKGROUND

In 2018, Metro received a TIRCP grant award of $1,088,499,000 for capital improvements that will broaden and modernize transit connectivity in LA County and the Southern California region by advancing new transit corridors simultaneously: L (Gold) Line Foothill Light Rail Extension to Montclair, East San Fernando Valley Transit Corridor, West Santa Ana Light Rail Transit Corridor, C (Green) Line Light Rail Extension to Torrance, and the G/B (Orange/Red) Line to L (Gold) Line Bus Rapid Transit Connector (North Hollywood to Pasadena). The award includes support for the development of a Vermont Transit Corridor Project and regional network integration with Metrolink, Amtrak, and additional transit services.

Metro was awarded an additional $7,000,000 of fundin...