Metro - File #: 2021-0710

• File #: 2021-0710
• Type: Contract
• Status: Consent Calendar
• File created: 10/26/2021
• In control: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
• On agenda: 1/27/2022
• Title: AUTHORIZE the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to execute Modification No. 2 to Contract No. AE67085000, Sepulveda Transit Corridor Environmental Review and Conceptual Engineering, with HTA Partners, a joint venture between HNTB Corporation, Terry A. Hayes Associates Inc., and AECOM Technical Services, Inc., in the amount of $4,723,199 to include additional environmental review, increasing the total contract value from $48,304,067 to $53,027,266.
• Sponsors: Planning and Programming Committee
• Indexes: Agreements, Airport Metro Connector (AMC) Station Project, Alameda Corridor East, Alignment, Board approved Contract, Budgeting, Contractors, Contracts, Environmental Impact Report, I-405, Los Angeles International Airport, Measure M, Measure R, Metro Rail E Line, Metrolink, Monorail, Pre-Development Agreement, Procurement, Project, Railroad commuter service, San Fernando, San Fernando Valley Service Sector, San Fernando Valley subregion, Sepulveda Transit Corridor (Project), Strategic planning, Travel time, Van Nuys
• Related files: 2022-0109

Date	Action By	Action	Result
1/27/2022	Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
1/19/2022	Planning and Programming Committee

Meeting_Body
PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
JANUARY 19, 2022

Subject
SUBJECT: SEPULVEDA TRANSIT CORRIDOR

Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATION

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
AUTHORIZE the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to execute Modification No. 2 to Contract No. AE67085000, Sepulveda Transit Corridor Environmental Review and Conceptual Engineering, with HTA Partners, a joint venture between HNTB Corporation, Terry A. Hayes Associates Inc., and AECOM Technical Services, Inc., in the amount of $4,723,199 to include additional environmental review, increasing the total contract value from $48,304,067 to $53,027,266.

Issue
ISSUE

At its August 2020 meeting the Board approved the award of the above contract for environmental analysis and advanced conceptual engineering (ACE) design services for the Sepulveda Transit Corridor (Legistar File 2020-0296). Informed by the Sepulveda Transit Corridor Feasibility Study, which concluded in 2019, the environmental contract specified the clearance of three alternatives.

Subsequently, in March 2021 (Legistar File 2021-0072), the Board approved the award of Pre-Development Agreements (PDA) with two contractor teams for the further definition and design development of their transit alternatives. In August 2021, a Notice to Proceed was issued to these teams that has resulted in five PDA alternatives being carried forward for environmental study. In addition, elements from the Feasibility Study that were not proposed by either PDA team were incorporated into a sixth alternative for environmental review. Negotiations for this contract modification have been conducted concurrently with the definition of these alternatives by the PDA and environmental teams following the issuance of the Notices to Proceed in August 2021.

Board action is required to execute a contract modification for the additional work needed to conduct environmental review for six project alternatives. Attachment A shows the general alignments of th...