REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL
FROM: GREGORY A. BARFIELD, Director
Department of Transportation
BY: CAROLINA ILIC, Planning Manager
Department of Transportation, Planning Division
HAROLD TODD SOBRADO, Associate Transit Planner
Department of Transportation, Planning Division
SUBJECT
Title
Approve the award of a professional consulting services contract to Transportation Management & Design, Inc. (TMD) of Carlsbad, California, for Title VI analyses for a total not to exceed $185,000 over the course of five years (RFP NO. 12300935)
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RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends Council approve the award of a three-year on-call consulting services contract, with two optional one-year extensions, to Transportation Management & Design, Inc. (TMD) of Carlsbad, California, for Title VI analyses for a total not to exceed $185,000 over the course of five years.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Department of Transportation/Fresno Area Express (FAX) seeks to award an on-call consulting contract from 2023-2028 to prepare the FAX 2025 Title VI Program Update and conduct up to 15 service, fare, or facility equity analyses, as needed. The contract is being awarded through a competitive bidding procurement process and funded using federal transportation funds. On November 15, 2022, three bids were received. One proposal was deemed non-responsive. Of the two remaining proposals, the TMD proposal provided the best value to FAX.
BACKGROUND
In compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) requires all transit agencies that receive federal funding to monitor the performance of their systems, ensuring services are made available and/or distributed equitably. One component of ensuring compliance is performing equity analyses for all service changes that exceed Council-approved thresholds that may result in disparate impacts or disproportionate burdens, for all fare changes, regardless of whether the fares are increasing or decreasing, and for...
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