Metro - File #: 2016-0116

• File #: 2016-0116
• Type: Contract
• Status: Withdrawn
• File created: 2/3/2016
• In control: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
• On agenda: 5/26/2016
• Final action: 4/13/2016
• Title: AUTHORIZE the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to award a one-year firm fixed price Contract No. AE470670022889 to Cityworks Design in the amount of $2,003,317 for the Rail to Rail Active Transportation Corridor Environmental Review, Clearance and Design - Segment A Project.
• Sponsors: Planning and Development (Department)
• Indexes: Alternatives analysis, Bicycling, Budgeting, Bus rapid transit, California Environmental Quality Act, Construction, Contracts, Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor Project, Fairview Heights Station, Grant Aid, Light rail transit, Los Angeles International Airport, Metro Blue Line, Metro Crenshaw Line, Metro Exposition Line, Metro Green Line, Metro Rail C Line, Metro Rail E Line, Metro Rail K Line, National Environmental Policy Act Of 1969, Notice of Intent, Outreach, Pedestrians, Procurement, Professional Services, Project, Rail to Rail/River Active Transportation Corridor Project, Rail To Rail/River Atc (Project), Request For Proposal, Slauson Station, South Los Angeles, Subdivisions

Date	Action By	Action	Result
5/26/2016
5/26/2016	Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
4/13/2016	Planning and Programming Committee

Meeting_Body
REGULAR BOARD MEETING
MAY 26, 2016

Subject/Action
SUBJECT: RAIL TO RAIL (RIVER) SEGMENT A PROJECT

ACTION: AWARD PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONTRACT

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
AUTHORIZE the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to award a one-year firm fixed price Contract No. AE470670022889 to Cityworks Design in the amount of $2,003,317 for the Rail to Rail Active Transportation Corridor Environmental Review, Clearance and Design - Segment A Project.

Issue
ISSUE

In December 2015, a Request for Proposals (RFP) was released to acquire a professional service contract for the development of 30% design drawings and environmental review and clearance under the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) and the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), for the 6.4 mile section of Metro owned Harbor Subdivision rail right-of-way (ROW) in South Los Angeles also referred to as Rail to Rail or Rail to River Active Transportation Corridor Segment A. Board authorization to execute the contract is needed.

Discussion
DISCUSSION

The Rail to Rail Active Transportation Corridor (ATC) - Segment A Project (Project) spans 6.4 miles along an east-west alignment from the future Metro Crenshaw/LAX Fairview Heights station at Florence Avenue and West Boulevard to just east of the existing Metro Blue Line Slauson station on the Metro owned Harbor Subdivision rail (ROW (Attachment C). The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad currently holds operating easements on the corridor. However, only very limited service exists on a portion of the ROW beyond the Segment A project limits.

The Project will improve multimodal connectivity in historically disadvantaged communities in South Los Angeles. The Project will link together three regionally significant north-south transit lines in Metro's system (the Crenshaw/LAX Light Rail Transit (LRT)), the Silver Line Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) located on the 110 Harbor Transitway, and the Blue Line LRT, increasing mobility optio...