Metro - File #: 2022-0543

• File #: 2022-0543
• Type: Contract
• Status: Passed
• File created: 8/16/2022
• In control: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
• On agenda: 10/27/2022
• Final action: 10/27/2022
• Title: AUTHORIZE the Chief Executive Officer to award a one-year Indefinite Delivery/ Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Contract No. MA89960000 to Peacock Systems, the lowest responsive and responsible bidder for Ethernet Switches in the total contract amount of $2,868,135.69, inclusive of sales tax, subject to resolution of any properly submitted protest(s), if any.
• Sponsors: Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Commit
• Indexes: All Door Boarding, Budgeting, Bus Acquisitions, Contracts, Farebox, Fareless System Initiative, Metro Busway J Line, NextGen Bus Study, Plan, Procurement, Purchasing, Ramps (Interchanges), Switches (Electricity), Switches (Railroads), Switching, Transit buses, Travel time, Wheelchairs

Date	Action By	Action	Result
10/27/2022	Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
10/20/2022	Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Committee

Meeting_Body
OPERATIONS, SAFETY, AND CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE COMMITTEE
OCTOBER 20, 2022

Subject
SUBJECT: ETHERNET SWITCH

Action
ACTION: AWARD CONTRACT FOR ETHERNET SWITCH

Heading
RECOMMENDATIONS
Title
AUTHORIZE the Chief Executive Officer to award a one-year Indefinite Delivery/ Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Contract No. MA89960000 to Peacock Systems, the lowest responsive and responsible bidder for Ethernet Switches in the total contract amount of $2,868,135.69, inclusive of sales tax, subject to resolution of any properly submitted protest(s), if any.

Issue
ISSUE

All Door Boarding (ADB) is one of the key components in the NextGen Bus Plan to improve transit speed, reliability, and customer experience. ADB was successfully piloted with Bus Mobile Validators (BMVs) installed on the J Line (Silver) 910/950 in 2016 and Metro Rapid Lines 720 and 754 in 2018 for fare collection. However, these BMVs are approaching obsolescence since they operate on 3G cellular technology, which will no longer be supported by cellular carriers that have moved to 4G and 5G technologies. The expansion of ADB to Tier One and Tier Two networks, as outlined in the NextGen Bus Plan, involves purchasing and installing the ethernet 16-port switches and second-generation BMVs at all doors of each bus to process Transit Access Pass (TAP) card fare payments.

The ethernet switch allows the new, second-generation BMVs to connect to the farebox to transmit updated bus assignment data and fare tables to the BMVs remotely and instantly without relying on manual configurations, providing greater operational flexibility to ensure buses can be assigned to different lines on a given service day. The ethernet switch will also allow the new BMVs and fareboxes to connect to the bus router for modern cellular communications. These 16-port managed switches will also be used to expand and upgrade other onboard systems such as the automatic passenger counters (APC), head signs, Smart Drive incident r...