Metro - File #: 2024-0362

• File #: 2024-0362
• Type: Contract
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 5/16/2024
• In control: Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Committee
• On agenda: 7/18/2024
• Title: AUTHORIZE the Chief Executive Officer to award a cost plus fixed fee Contract No. PS112435 to AECOM Technical Services, Inc. to provide as-needed Program Management Support Services (PMSS), and Design and Engineering Support Services (DESS) for Vehicle Engineering and Acquisition (VEA) to support the conversion of Metro's bus fleet to Zero Emission Buses (ZEB) by 2030 in the not-to-exceed (NTE) amount of $8,399,421 for the five (5) year base term, and $5,668,871 for the three (3) one-year option terms, for a total combined not-to-exceed amount of $14,068,292, subject to the resolution of all properly submitted protest(s), if any.
• Sponsors: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
• Indexes: Board approved a Motion, Budgeting, Bus Acquisitions, Contracts, Motion / Motion Response, Plan, Procurement, Professional Services, Program, Program Management, Rolling stock, Strategic planning, Zeb Program Master Plan (Project), Zero Emission Bus (ZEB) Master Plan, Zero Emissions

Meeting_Body
OPERATIONS, SAFETY, AND CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE COMMITTEE
JULY 18, 2024

Subject
SUBJECT: ZERO EMISSION BUS (ZEB) PROGRAM PLANNING AND PROGRAM MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT SERVICES

Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATION

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
AUTHORIZE the Chief Executive Officer to award a cost plus fixed fee Contract No. PS112435 to AECOM Technical Services, Inc. to provide as-needed Program Management Support Services (PMSS), and Design and Engineering Support Services (DESS) for Vehicle Engineering and Acquisition (VEA) to support the conversion of Metro's bus fleet to Zero Emission Buses (ZEB) by 2030 in the not-to-exceed (NTE) amount of $8,399,421 for the five (5) year base term, and $5,668,871 for the three (3) one-year option terms, for a total combined not-to-exceed amount of $14,068,292, subject to the resolution of all properly submitted protest(s), if any.

Issue
ISSUE

In 2018, Metro retained ZEBGO Partners, a joint venture technical consultant, to develop comprehensive plans for phasing Metro's transition to a zero-emission bus fleet. The term for that consultant contract will expired on January 1, 2025.In 2023, staff released a competitive solicitation to replace it. This action authorizes a contract award to AECOM Technical Services, Inc. to provide Consultant Support Services to continue developing comprehensive plans for Metro's zero-emission transition.

Background
BACKGROUND

In July 2017, the Metro Board of Directors approved Motion #50 by Directors Bonin, Garcetti, Najarian, Hahn, and Solis (Attachment A), which endorsed a ZEB Strategic Plan to transition Metro's entire bus fleet to zero-emission by 2030, contingent on envisioned cost and performance equivalence with compressed natural gas (CNG) buses and continued advancements in charging infrastructure. In 2018, the California Air Resources Board's (CARB) Innovative Clean Transit (ICT) regulation mandated that all transit agencies in the State operate zero-emission fle...