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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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