Project. The [inaudible] bay area district for cal trance, and they are a program where they want pwhrarpblg established firms such as ours to help small emerging firms get a head start and be successful so pbs been very involved in this program locally and we actually have more mous memorandum of understanding with small and emerging firms than any other firm in the program. Wanted to underscore what we have mous in place with and so basically what we do is we give them opportunities first of all to be on our teams and then doing this highway work can be pretty complicated if youve never done it, the cost proposals, the audits, how the work is done in accordance with cal transstandards and things like that. Some of the firms weve had mous with in the past have moved on and are doing real well now. Are they competing against you. In some cases. I guess thats a determinant that the programs successful. Is it very specific that you will take them on projects and. It did you want list spe
Specific projects, but what it does its an agreement between us and them that first of all, describes what the intent of the program is and that we are going to make an effort and theyre going to be receptive and that the idea though is theres in guarantees. They still have to perform and have to meet the scope thats in their contract. This kind of stuff. And. How to you identify which organizations and companies youll enter an mou with . Well, cal transoached firms and in other cases theyve approached us but helping women owned or minority owned businesses. Thats just a plus if they are. Exactly. So on this team here we have four Small Businesses and zune is a small business, but not a dbe. How do you determine if your program is successful . What are the indicators for success besides some a few of them competing against you . To me i think theyve all stayed in business. Okay. I think in this economy with the work not being as plentiful as in the past i think thats the best indicator
Number five. Its an important discussion. We. Let me bring up tita i have a couple questions for tiat before we move on to that. Thank you. Now on to the Construction Management pl discussion. The Transportation Authority went ahead and issued a request for proposals in january of 2013. We received six proposals in february, four firms were short listed and interviews were conducted in march of 2013. Unanimous Panel Selection [inaudible] with the best relevant experience. Wanna talk a little bit about the team memberer ship and the make up. We have db participation of 16 percent, made up of firms from transamerican engineers and garcia associates. North American Engineering is handling the [inaudible] assisting on inspection work as well as some of the environmental permitting. Okay. Mark from db, if you could come up. I have a couple questions. I want to talk about the protege re shraeugs relationship. Can you describe this program. Bart with parsons, im the project manager for pb on
Youll enter an mou with . Well, cal transoached firms and in other cases theyve approached us but helping women owned or minority owned businesses. Thats just a plus if they are. Exactly. So on this team here we have four Small Businesses and zune is a small business, but not a dbe. How do you determine if your program is successful . What are the indicators for success besides some a few of them competing against you . To me i think theyve all stayed in business. Okay. I think in this economy with the work not being as plentiful as in the past i think thats the best indicator. Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to go down the pathway. Oftentimes there are people watching at home that may have these types of questions. You can continue. Thank you. Almost wrapped up. Lets talk about schedule. Our intent is to execute the tita moa agreements and the Construction Management contracts this month and as i indicated before thats contingent on receiving the authorization from the feder
We advertise and receive about five proposals on may 29 and out of those five, two were qualified met the qualifications. Those two firms that were collected [inaudible] are here and theyre present if you have any questions for them. Theyre both bde firms as they lead the leed consultant firm. Cd is obviously a team that has been around for a long time and knows authority very well and they have history with a lot of the projects. And vice has done this type of work for the county [inaudible] we have on the other side of the bay and theyll work with doing Program Management and engineering services. So those are the two firms that we are recommending and what we are seeking here today is your recommendation to award the one year consultant contract to the two firms with an option to extend to two years for the amount of 1. 8 Million Dollars. You have any questions, im here. I think i see one question. Commissioner wiener. Thank you and thank you for that presentation. So i just have a