Metro - File #: 2016-0836

• File #: 2016-0836
• Type: Contract
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 10/12/2016
• In control: System Safety, Security and Operations Committee
• On agenda: 3/15/2018
• Title: CONSIDER: A. AUTHORIZING the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to execute Modification No. 1 to the firm fixed price Contract No. OP28367-001, Part D, awarded to New Flyer of America (NF) for the: 1. Increase in the base contract procurement of 60 foot zero emission vehicles from a quantity of thirty-five (35) to forty (40); 2. Increase in the quantity of On-Route chargers from seven (7) to eight (8) and Shop chargers from one (1) to two (2); and 3. Increase the contract amount by $7,371,287, from $51,211,033 to $58,582,320. B. AUTHORIZING the CEO to increase the price for Optional Vehicle Features, Spare Parts, and Training Aids by $530,575 from a not-to-exceed amount of $8,839,064 to a not-to-exceed amount of $9,369,639; and C. INCREASING the life-of-project budget of CP 201073 from $72,101,419 to $80,003,282 for the purchase of forty zero emission buses, charging equipment, installation costs, infrastructure upgrades, and contingency.
• Sponsors: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
• Indexes: Articulated buses, Bids, Budgeting, Bus 60'Ze W/ New Flyer- 40 (Project), Bus Acquisitions, Certification, Contracts, Disadvantaged business enterprises, Federal Transit Administration, Grant Aid, Metro Orange Line, Procurement, Purchasing, Rolling stock, Safety, Ticket vending machines, Zero Emission Bus (ZEB) Master Plan, Zero Emissions
• Related files: 2017-0810, 2018-0154

Date	Action By	Action	Result
3/22/2018	Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting

Meeting_Body
SYSTEM SAFETY, SECURITY AND OPERATIONS COMMITTEE
MARCH 15, 2018

Subject
SUBJECT: PROCUREMENT OF FIVE 60' ARTICULATED ZERO
EMISSION TRANSIT BUSES

Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATIONS

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
CONSIDER:

A. AUTHORIZING the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to execute Modification No. 1 to the firm fixed price Contract No. OP28367-001, Part D, awarded to New Flyer of America (NF) for the:

1. Increase in the base contract procurement of 60 foot zero emission vehicles from a quantity of thirty-five (35) to forty (40);

2. Increase in the quantity of On-Route chargers from seven (7) to eight (8) and Shop chargers from one (1) to two (2); and

3. Increase the contract amount by $7,371,287, from $51,211,033 to $58,582,320.

B. AUTHORIZING the CEO to increase the price for Optional Vehicle Features, Spare Parts, and Training Aids by $530,575 from a not-to-exceed amount of $8,839,064 to a not-to-exceed amount of $9,369,639; and

C. INCREASING the life-of-project budget of CP 201073 from $72,101,419 to $80,003,282 for the purchase of forty zero emission buses, charging equipment, installation costs, infrastructure upgrades, and contingency.

Issue
ISSUE

Consistent with Metro Board direction, Metro is in the process of converting the Metro Orange Line (MOL) from 100% Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) operation to 100% Zero Emission Buses (ZEB) operation by 2020. Two of three contracts have been awarded to procure the forty-five ZEB's required to fully electrify the line. One contract was issued to Build Your Dreams for five 60-foot ZEB's; the other contract was awarded to New Flyer for thirty-five 60-foot ZEB's. The intent was to procure the remaining five ZEB's from NF under a contract partially funded by a special Low or No Emission (Lo/No) grant. The vehicles proposed under the third contract are identical to the vehicles that will be provided by NF under Contract No. OP28367-001, Part D. To make effective and efficient us...