File #: 2023-0290   
Type: Contract Status: Passed
File created: 4/24/2023 In control: Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Committee
On agenda: 6/15/2023 Final action: 6/22/2023
Title: AUTHORIZE the Chief Executive Officer to: A. AWARD a firm fixed unit rate Contract No. OP911660008370, for Region 1 to Urban Graffiti Enterprises Inc., to provide trash and overgrown vegetation removal services in the not-to-exceed (NTE) amount of $2,653,488 for the three-year base, and $1,556,296 for the one, two-year option, for a total combined NTE amount of $4,209,784, effective August 1, 2023, subject to resolution of timely protest(s), if any; B. AWARD a firm fixed unit rate Contract No. OP911660018370, for Regions 2 and 3 to Parkwood Landscape Maintenance, Inc., to provide trash and overgrown vegetation removal services in the NTE amount of $32,708,116 for the three-year base, and $21,762,707 for the one, two-year option, for a combined not-to-exceed amount of $54,470,823, effective August 1, 2023, subject to resolution of timely protest(s), if any; and C. EXECUTE individual contract modifications within the Board approved contract modification authority.
Sponsors: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
Indexes: 7th Street/Metro Center Station, Budgeting, Cleaning, Cleanliness (Graffiti Abatement), Contracts, Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor Project, Gold Line Foothill Extension 2B, Graffiti, Harbor Transitway, Hourly, Housing, Irrigation, Landscape maintenance, Landscaping, Light rail transit, Link Union Station, Little Tokyo/Arts District Station, Maintenance, Measure M, Metro Busway G Line, Metro Busway J Line, Metro Rail A Line, Metro Rail C Line, Metro Rail D Line, Metro Rail E Line, Metro Rail K Line, Metro Rail L Line, North San Fernando Valley Transit Corridor, Procurement, Regional Connector Transit Corridor Project, Resolution, Small Business Enterprise, Surveys, Westside Subway Extension/Purple Line Extension Phase 1, Westside Subway Extension/Purple Line Extension Phase 2
Attachments: 1. Attachment A - Procurement Summary, 2. Attachment B - DEOD Summary, 3. Attachment C - Three (3) Regions' Maps
Related files: 2023-0467, 2023-0411
OPERATIONS, SAFETY, AND CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE COMMITTEE
JUNE 15, 2023

Subject
SUBJECT: TRASH AND OVERGROWN VEGETATION REMOVAL SERVICES FOR REGIONS 1 THROUGH 3

Action
ACTION: APPROVE CONTRACT AWARDS

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
AUTHORIZE the Chief Executive Officer to:

A. AWARD a firm fixed unit rate Contract No. OP911660008370, for Region 1 to Urban Graffiti Enterprises Inc., to provide trash and overgrown vegetation removal services in the not-to-exceed (NTE) amount of $2,653,488 for the three-year base, and $1,556,296 for the one, two-year option, for a total combined NTE amount of $4,209,784, effective August 1, 2023, subject to resolution of timely protest(s), if any;

B. AWARD a firm fixed unit rate Contract No. OP911660018370, for Regions 2 and 3 to Parkwood Landscape Maintenance, Inc., to provide trash and overgrown vegetation removal services in the NTE amount of $32,708,116 for the three-year base, and $21,762,707 for the one, two-year option, for a combined not-to-exceed amount of $54,470,823, effective August 1, 2023, subject to resolution of timely protest(s), if any; and

C. EXECUTE individual contract modifications within the Board approved contract modification authority.

Issue
ISSUE

The existing four (4) regional contracts provide combined services for graffiti abatement, landscape and irrigation maintenance, and trash and overgrown vegetation removal services per region.

To ensure continuity of maintenance services, two (2) new contract awards are required effective August 1, 2023, for trash and vegetation removal services throughout Metro's service area, restructured and split geographically into three (3) regions (Attachment C). One contract will provide services for Region 1, while the other contract will provide services for Regions 2 and 3 combined.



Background
BACKGROUND

On September 17, 2015, the Metro Board of Directors awarded four (4) contracts for regions 1 through 4, to maintain Metro's service area split geograph...

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