Metro - File #: 2025-0331

• File #: 2025-0331
• Type: Contract
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 4/18/2025
• In control: Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Committee
• On agenda: 6/18/2025
• Title: AUTHORIZE the Chief Executive Officer to award a sole-source firm fixed price contract, Contract No. PS128578000 to AGP Technologies, Inc. for the purchase of a centralized real-time monitoring system for the Track and Tunnel Intrusion Detection System (TTIDS) in the amount of $1,825,000, subject to the resolution of any properly submitted protest(s), if any.
• Sponsors: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
• Indexes: Board approved Contract, Budgeting, Capital Project, Contracts, Design build, Los Angeles Union Station, Maintenance, Metro Rail A Line, Metro Rail B Line, Metro Rail D Line, Operations and Maintenance, Procurement, Purchasing, Rail Operations Control Center, Safety, Safety and security, System safety, Tracking systems, Vermont/Beverly Station, Wilshire/Western Station

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OPERATIONS, SAFETY, AND CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE COMMITTEE
JUNE 18, 2025

Subject
SUBJECT: CENTRALIZED MONITORING SYSTEM FOR TRACK AND TUNNEL INTRUSION DETECTION SYSTEM

Action
ACTION: AWARD CONTRACT

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
AUTHORIZE the Chief Executive Officer to award a sole-source firm fixed price contract, Contract No. PS128578000 to AGP Technologies, Inc. for the purchase of a centralized real-time monitoring system for the Track and Tunnel Intrusion Detection System (TTIDS) in the amount of $1,825,000, subject to the resolution of any properly submitted protest(s), if any.

Issue
ISSUE

This procurement is to purchase a centralized real-time monitoring system to monitor the existing TTIDS located at 23 stations located on the B and D Lines, from Union Station to Wilshire/Western, Vermont/Beverly to North Hollywood and Wilshire La Brea to Westwood/VA Hospital. Currently, TTIDS alarms are displayed only at Train Control & Communication (TC&C) rooms within stations at the module level. There is presently no capability to monitor TTIDS alarms remotely from the Rail Operations Control Center (ROC). The purchase of a centralized real-time monitoring system extends these monitoring capabilities to ROC to ensure that all TTIDS alarms are displayed at ROC to alert the train controllers.

Background
BACKGROUND

In September 2019, the TTIDS project, CP212123, was approved as part of a Transit Security Grant Program (TSGP). A contract was approved by Metro's Board in April 2022 to install TTIDS equipment in Station TC&C Rooms and tunnel walls between Union Station and Wilshire/Western. The installation of this system was completed in March 2025. This detection system will provide notification of unauthorized access along Metro rights-of-way and ancillary areas. However, after further evaluation of the TTIDS, Metro staff identified additional opportunities for enhancement and improvement. It was determined that integrating remote monitoring ...