File #: 2021-0097   
Type: Contract Status: Passed
File created: 3/2/2021 In control: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
On agenda: 4/22/2021 Final action: 4/22/2021
Title: AUTHORIZE: A. The Chief Executive Officer to award a sole-source, task order based, firm-fixed unit rate Contract No. OP177320000PS57993 to ARINC Incorporated, a Delaware corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, a Delaware corporation, for on-call engineering support services in support of Metro's Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, in a not-to-exceed amount of $40,000,000 for a ten-year period of performance effective July 1, 2021. B. The Chief Executive Officer to execute task orders for an aggregate amount not-to-exceed $40,000,000.
Sponsors: Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Commit
Indexes: Budgeting, Capital Project, Capital Project Funds, Contractors, Contracts, Division 20, Maintenance, Maintenance of way, Measure M, Measure R, Metro Rail A Line, Metro Rail B Line, Metro Rail D Line, Metro Rail E Line, Metro Rail L Line, Metro Vision 2028 Plan, Passenger information systems, Procurement, Project, Rail Operations Control Center, Regional Connector Transit Corridor Project, Safety, State Of Good Repair, Strategic planning, Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition, Transit Passenger Information System, Transit System, Twenty-eight by '28 Initiative, Westside Subway Extension/Purple Line Extension Phase 1, Westside Subway Extension/Purple Line Extension Phase 2, Westside Subway Extension/Purple Line Extension Phase 3
Attachments: 1. Attachment A - Procurement Summary, 2. Attachment B - DEOD Summary, 3. Presentation
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OPERATIONS, SAFETY, AND CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE COMMITTEE
APRIL 15, 2021

Subject
SUBJECT: SCADA AS NEEDED TASK ORDER SUPPORT SERVICES

Action
ACTION: AWARD CONTRACT

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
AUTHORIZE:

A. The Chief Executive Officer to award a sole-source, task order based, firm-fixed unit rate Contract No. OP177320000PS57993 to ARINC Incorporated, a Delaware corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, a Delaware corporation, for on-call engineering support services in support of Metro's Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, in a not-to-exceed amount of $40,000,000 for a ten-year period of performance effective July 1, 2021.

B. The Chief Executive Officer to execute task orders for an aggregate amount not-to-exceed $40,000,000.

Issue
ISSUE

This sole source task-order based contract will ensure timely completion of improvements for the Rail Operations Center (ROC) and avoid any interruption to the critical needs of Metro rail operations. Recent acceleration in the Regional Connector project delivery dates require that the new task-order based contract be in place by July 1, 2021. SCADA engineering services for other upcoming transit expansion capital projects, such as Division 20 Portal Widening Turnback and Purple Line Extension Section 1, also need to begin as soon as possible to meet the project schedules.
The existing contract OP39603035 is set to expire on December 31, 2021.

Background
BACKGROUND

The existing contract OP39603035 was authorized by the Board in November 2013, after a competitive procurement, for equipment and services for the replacement of the obsolete Red Line SCADA System. ARINC was chosen as the most technically qualified proposer offering the lowest price. Six modifications have been issued to accommodate new rail extensions since then, including those most recently to support both the Regional Connector and the Crenshaw line.
The existing contract includes a 1...

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