File #: 2024-0385   
Type: Contract Status: Passed
File created: 5/22/2024 In control: Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Committee
On agenda: 7/18/2024 Final action: 7/25/2024
Title: AUTHORIZE the Chief Executive Officer to execute Contract Modification No. 3 to Contract No. OP729180008370 with Link-Nilsen Corp, for Fire-Life Safety Systems Testing, Repair and Certification Services, to exercise the one, two-year option in the not-to-exceed (NTE) amount of $1,990,280, and adding testing locations in the NTE amount of $702,452, increasing the total contract NTE amount from $3,911,744 to $6,604,476, inclusive of the option term, and extending the period of performance from September 30, 2024 to September 30, 2026.
Sponsors: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
Indexes: Airport Metro Connector (AMC) Station Project, Budgeting, Certification, Contractors, Contracts, Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor Project, Measure R, Metro Rail C Line, Metro Rail K Line, Procurement, Safety, Safety equipment, System safety, Testing, Transportation Development Act of 1971
Attachments: 1. Attachment A - Procurement Summary, 2. Attachment B - Contract Modification/Change Order Log, 3. Attachment C - DEOD Summary, 4. Presentation
Related files: 2024-0937
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OPERATIONS, SAFETY, AND CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE COMMITTEE
JULY 18, 2024

Subject
SUBJECT: FIRE-LIFE SAFETY SYSTEMS TESTING, REPAIR AND CERTIFICATION SERVICES

Action
ACTION: APPROVE CONTRACT MODIFICATION

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
AUTHORIZE the Chief Executive Officer to execute Contract Modification No. 3 to Contract No. OP729180008370 with Link-Nilsen Corp, for Fire-Life Safety Systems Testing, Repair and Certification Services, to exercise the one, two-year option in the not-to-exceed (NTE) amount of $1,990,280, and adding testing locations in the NTE amount of $702,452, increasing the total contract NTE amount from $3,911,744 to $6,604,476, inclusive of the option term, and extending the period of performance from September 30, 2024 to September 30, 2026.

Issue
ISSUE

The existing contract's three-year base term to provide fire-life safety systems testing, repair, and certification services expires on September 30, 2024. To continue providing these critical services and ensure compliance with Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) Regulation 4 (Reg. 4), state and federal fire-life safety testing mandates, a contract modification is required to exercise the two-year option, and add testing locations, increasing the total NTE amount from $3,911,744 to $6,604,476 and extending the period of performance from September 30, 2024, to September 30, 2026.

Background
BACKGROUND

On June 24, 2021, the Board authorized the Chief Executive Officer to award a firm fixed unit rate Contract No. OP729180008370, with one, two-year option, to provide systemwide fire-life safety systems testing, repair, and certification services, effective October 1, 2021.

Under the existing contract, the contractor Link-Nilsen Corp. has been providing satisfactory services for systemwide annual and five-year Reg. 4 testing, calibration, repair, retesting where applicable, and certification of water-based fire suppression systems and auto-closing fire assemblies. In the...

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