The purpose of this task order is for LS gallegos & associates, INC. To provide FTA region V(TRO5) with project management oversight services for the metropolitan council projects including, but not…

This is a task order awarded by the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to LS Gallegos & Associates, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business, woman-owned small business, and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE). The task order, issued under the FTA's Project Management Oversight Services III indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract, is for LS Gallegos to provide project management oversight services for FTA Region V, including oversight of the Metropolitan Council's Orange Line bus rapid transit (BRT), Southwest Corridor light rail transit (LRT), and Bottineau LRT projects. The task order has a potential value of $629,568.94 and was awarded on a cost-plus-fixed-fee basis. LS Gallegos will perform this work out of its Greenwood Village, Colorado headquarters without the use of subcontractors.

The purpose of this task order is for LS gallegos & associates, INC. To provide FTA region V(TRO5) with project management oversight services for the metropolitan council projects including, but not limited to, the following: orange line BRT description: the orange line is a 17-mile planned highway bus rapid transit (BRT) line between minneapolis, richfield, bloomington, and burnsville minnesota along I-35W. All-day, frequent, bidirectional service will complement local and express bus routes in the I-35W corridor, providing competitive running times for station-to-station trips and a new option for reverse-commute markets. The orange line will serve 11 at-grade stations and one elevated station (lake street). Both the guideway and stations will be primarily in existing transportation right-of-way. About 900 feet of new right-of-way is needed to establish a transit-only guideway along the alignment of knox avenue in the city of bloomington between the american boulevard station and I-494. SWLRT (green line extension) description: the proposed southwest corridor light rail transit (SWLRT) project (green line extension) will operate from downtown minneapolis through the communities of ST. Louis park, hopkins, minnetonka, and eden prairie, passing in close proximity to the city of edina. The proposed alignment is primarily at-grade and about 15.8-miles of double track and includes tunnels and bridges. The current project scope includes design and construction of a full-size vehicle support facility, 16 at-grade stations and ten park-and-ride facilities with roughly 3,747 total spaces and the procurement of 29 light rail vehicles. Bottineau (blue line) description: the proposed bottineau transitway is a proposed LRT project located in hennepin county, minnesota, extending approximately 13 miles from downtown minneapolis to the northwest serving parts of minneapolis and the suburbs of golden valley, robbinsdale, crystal and brooklyn park. The project scope includes design and construction of a vehicle support facility, stations and the procurement of light rail vehicles. Subject to the issuance of individual work orders, the contractor shall provide project management oversight services for region V grantees and their capital projects to the extent that the PMO contractor has no conflict of interest.