Metro - File #: 2025-0799

• File #: 2025-0799
• Type: Contract
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 9/16/2025
• In control: Construction Committee
• On agenda: 11/19/2025
• Title: CONSIDER: A. APPROVING an increase in authorized funding and executing Modification No. 9 to Contract No. PS54007 with Enterris Associates, Inc. (formerly PQM, Inc.), for pending and future Task Orders to provide quality management consulting and support services for Metro Transit and Transportation projects in an amount Not-To-Exceed (NTE) $28,500,000; increasing the total contract authorized funding from an NTE amount of $25,325,804 to a NTE amount of $53,825,804 and exercising the three, one-year option years through March 2029; and B. AUTHORIZING the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) or designee to execute individual Task Orders (TOs) and Contract Modifications within the Board approved contract funding amount.
• Sponsors: Construction Committee
• Indexes: Audit, Budgeting, Capital Project, Capital Project Funds, Construction, Construction safety, Contractors, Contracts, Databases, Disadvantaged business enterprises, Federal Highway Administration, Measure M, Measure R, Metro Rail D Line, Procurement, Program, Program Management, Project delivery, Project management, Safety, Testing, Westside Subway Extension/Purple Line Extension Phase 2, Westside Subway Extension/Purple Line Extension Phase 3

Meeting_Body
CONSTRUCTION COMMITTEE
NOVEMBER 19, 2025

Subject
SUBJECT: QUALITY MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT

Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATION

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
CONSIDER:

A. APPROVING an increase in authorized funding and executing Modification No. 9 to Contract No. PS54007 with Enterris Associates, Inc. (formerly PQM, Inc.), for pending and future Task Orders to provide quality management consulting and support services for Metro Transit and Transportation projects in an amount Not-To-Exceed (NTE) $28,500,000; increasing the total contract authorized funding from an NTE amount of $25,325,804 to a NTE amount of $53,825,804 and exercising the three, one-year option years through March 2029; and

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

Issue
ISSUE

In March 2019, the Board approved a seven-year Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee Contract No. PS54007 with Enterris Associates, Inc. (formerly PQM, Inc.), a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE), for Quality Management Consultant (QMC) services.

The QMC is instrumental in supporting Metro's Quality Management Oversight (QMO) Program and the overarching Quality Management System (QMS). These services are critical to ensuring that all capital projects, including those funded by voter-approved Measures R and M, are delivered to the required quality standards, thereby protecting the investment and long-term viability of Metro's infrastructure.

The current funding authorization for this QMC contract totals $25,325,804.00, which is anticipated to cover all scheduled activities through December 2025.

To cover the remainder of the initial contract term and the subsequent three one-year option periods through March 2029, staff is requesting an additional NTE funding authorization of $28,500,000.00. This NTE authorization is necessary to maintain continuity of quality oversight,...