Metro - File #: 2024-0404

• File #: 2024-0404
• Type: Informational Report
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 5/30/2024
• In control: Construction Committee
• On agenda: 7/17/2024
• Title: RECEIVE AND FILE status report on the Metro G Line Improvements Project.
• Indexes: Alignment 1110, Alignment 1112, Bids, Bikeways, Budgeting, California Transportation Commission, Cleaning, Commerce, Construction, Contractors, Gateway Cities (Southeast LA County) Service Sector, Gateway Cities subregion, Grade separations, Grant Aid, Informational Report, Intersections, Maps, Measure M, Metro Busway G Line, Metro Rail A Line, Outreach, Procurement, Program, Progressive Design/Build, Project, Project delivery, Safety, San Fernando, San Fernando Valley Service Sector, San Fernando Valley subregion, Senate Bill 1, Station 1111, Station 1111B, Strategic planning, Testing, Traffic signals, Travel time, Van Nuys

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CONSTRUCTION COMMITTEE
JULY 17, 2024

Subject
SUBJECT: METRO G LINE IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT STATUS REPORT


Action
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
RECEIVE AND FILE status report on the Metro G Line Improvements Project.

Issue
ISSUE

The Project uses the Progressive Design Build (PDB) delivery method, which was selected to provide Metro with the ability to negotiate scopes of work to maintain affordability for the Project. This report provides updates on community outreach and third-party and grant funding coordination efforts that have transpired subsequent to the presentation of scope refinements communicated at the November 2023 Committee meeting.

Background
BACKGROUND

The Project seeks to improve transit ridership through safety enhancements and improvements designed to increase operating speeds, which will benefit customers and the surrounding communities of the San Fernando Valley. The Project has allocated funding of $391M, including Measure M ($286M), SB-1 ($75M) and Safe Clean Water Program (Measure W) ($30M).

The Project uses the Progressive Design Build (PDB) delivery method, which was selected to provide Metro with the ability to negotiate scopes of work to maintain affordability for the Project. Under traditional delivery methods such as Design-Bid-Build, the scope is set at the time of bid with a contract price submitted to Metro, and increases to the contract price are realized through change orders received throughout the life of the project. This often results in a need to increase funding to projects late in the life cycle. Using a two-phase PDB delivery method and appropriate allocation of risk and contingency early in the preconstruction process, Metro can receive pricing for elements of the project and can negotiate, and eliminate as needed, scope from the project to achieve cost certainty and value for money.

In November 2023, Project staff informed the Committee that based upon contractor ...