Metro - File #: 2025-1017

• File #: 2025-1017
• Type: Contract
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 11/18/2025
• In control: Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Committee
• On agenda: 1/15/2026
• Title: AUTHORIZE the Chief Executive Officer to: A. AWARD a seven-year, firm fixed unit rate contract, Contract No. OP128598000 to Camber Operating, Inc., for the acquisition and installation of up to 73 on-route opportunity chargers and associated components, parts, and software, and a Service Level Agreement (SLA) for the maintenance of the equipment in the Not-To-Exceed (NTE) amount of $58,244,127, subject to the resolution of any properly submitted protest(s), if any; and B. EXECUTE individual contract modifications within the Board-approved Contract Modification Authority (CMA).
• Sponsors: Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Commit
• Indexes: Budgeting, Bus Acquisitions, Chatsworth, Cleaning, Contractors, Contracts, Division 08, Equipment Acquisitions, Low Carbon Transit Operations Program, Maintenance, Metro Busway G Line, Metro Divisions, Motion / Motion Response, Procurement, Project, Request For Proposal, Rolling stock, Safety, Strategic planning, Testing, Transportation Improvement Program, Warranty, Zero Emission Bus (ZEB) Master Plan, Zero Emissions
• Related files: 2025-0464

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OPERATIONS, SAFETY, AND CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE COMMITTEE
JANUARY 15, 2026

Subject
SUBJECT: ON-ROUTE OPPORTUNITY CHARGERS FOR ZERO EMISSION BUSES

Action
ACTION: AWARD CONTRACT

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
AUTHORIZE the Chief Executive Officer to:

A. AWARD a seven-year, firm fixed unit rate contract, Contract No. OP128598000 to Camber Operating, Inc., for the acquisition and installation of up to 73 on-route opportunity chargers and associated components, parts, and software, and a Service Level Agreement (SLA) for the maintenance of the equipment in the Not-To-Exceed (NTE) amount of $58,244,127, subject to the resolution of any properly submitted protest(s), if any; and

B. EXECUTE individual contract modifications within the Board-approved Contract Modification Authority (CMA).

Issue
ISSUE

This action authorizes the award of a contract to acquire, install, and commission up to 73 on-route opportunity chargers and associated components, parts, and software. The Contract also includes a warranty, Service Level Agreement (SLA), and the acquisition of electrical Switchgear needed for each location, but excludes any supporting civil site work. The on-route chargers are needed to support zero-emission buses operating across Metro's system.

Background
BACKGROUND

In July 2017, the Board 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. This was contingent on cost and performance equivalence with Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses and continued advancements in technology. 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 fleets by 2040. Metro has met all state-mandated program requirements a decade earlier than the ICT mandate and is committed to a goal of 100% zero emissions for all fut...