Metro - File #: 2025-1011

• File #: 2025-1011
• Type: Contract
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 11/14/2025
• In control: Construction Committee
• On agenda: 1/14/2026
• Title: CONSIDER: A. APPROVING an increase in total authorized funding and executing Modification No. 14 to Contract No. AE47810E0128 with SECOTrans (Joint Venture of Hatch Associates Consultants, Inc., NBA Engineering Inc., and Ramos Consulting Services, Inc), for pending and future Task Orders to provide systems engineering and support services for Metro Rail and Bus Transit projects, in the Not-To-Exceed (NTE) amount of $35,000,000, increasing the total contract authorized funding from an NTE amount of $149,782,000 to an NTE amount of $184,782,000, and exercising the second, one-year (1) option extending the contract term from April 25, 2026 to April 25, 2027; and B. AUTHORIZING the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) or designee to execute individual Task Orders and Contract Modifications within the Board approved contract funding amount.
• Sponsors: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
• Indexes: Budgeting, Bus Operations Control Center, Bus rapid transit, Capital Project, Construction, Contracts, Maintainability, Measure M, Measure R, Metro Busway G Line, Metro Rail D Line, Procurement, Program Management, Project, Rail Operations Control Center, Rail transit, Safety, Security, Southeast Gateway Line, Southeast Gateway Line Phase 2, Standardization, Strategic planning, System safety, Systems engineering, Transit buses

Meeting_Body
CONSTRUCTION COMMITTEE
JANUARY 14, 2026

Subject
SUBJECT: SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND SUPPORT SERVICES CONTRACT

Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATION

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
CONSIDER:

A. APPROVING an increase in total authorized funding and executing Modification No. 14 to Contract No. AE47810E0128 with SECOTrans (Joint Venture of Hatch Associates Consultants, Inc., NBA Engineering Inc., and Ramos Consulting Services, Inc), for pending and future Task Orders to provide systems engineering and support services for Metro Rail and Bus Transit projects, in the Not-To-Exceed (NTE) amount of $35,000,000, increasing the total contract authorized funding from an NTE amount of $149,782,000 to an NTE amount of $184,782,000, and exercising the second, one-year (1) option extending the contract term from April 25, 2026 to April 25, 2027; and

B. AUTHORIZING the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) or designee to execute individual Task Orders and Contract Modifications within the Board approved contract funding amount.

Issue
ISSUE

At its April 2018 meeting, the Board approved awarding a seven-year cost reimbursable fixed fee, Task Order (TO) based contract with three, one-year options, to SECOTrans, a Joint Venture for Systems Engineering and Support Services (SESS) Consulting. The approval required staff to return to the Board on an annual basis as projects progressed and new project requirements were identified to update contract expenditure authorization. The funds previously authorized by the Board for FY25 and FY26 will be exhausted by April 2026; therefore, the recommended increase will allow staff to continue with work anticipated for the remainder of the contract term ending through April 25, 2027.

Background
BACKGROUND

The challenge presented by the simultaneous implementation of numerous projects is to ensure the integration and standardization of the systems elements within and across the current Metro system. Consistent development a...