City Council Agenda
Memo to:
Manteca City Council
From:
Jose Jasso, Assistant City Manager/Interim Public Works Director
Prepared by:
Juan Portillo, Public Works Manager-Transit
Date:
November 4, 2025
Subject:
Authorize the purchase of Three Cutaway Buses for Transit through California Association for Coordinated Transportation/Morongo Basin Transit Authority Vehicle Purchasing Cooperative #20-01
Recommendation:
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Adopt a resolution authorizing the use of the California Association for Coordinated Transportation/Morongo Basin Transit Authority (CalACT/MBTA) Vehicle Purchasing Cooperative #20-01 to purchase three cutaway buses, in the amount of $481,358, and a 3% contingency for a total not to exceed amount of $495,799.
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Background:
The City of Manteca is a member agency of the California Association for Coordinated Transportation (CalACT); a statewide association of small, rural and specialized transportation providers. As a component of promoting collaboration and exchange amongst smaller transit agencies, CalACT provides opportunities, through Purchasing Cooperatives, for small agencies to "piggyback" off existing procurement contracts, which are bid on a large scale, enabling the City to receive competitive pricing that the City might not otherwise receive on a purchase of three (3) cutaway buses.
Purchasing Cooperative #20-01, issued through a joint effort between CalACT and MBTA (Morongo Basin Transit Authority), authorizes the City to purchase three (3) Chassis cutaway buses from A-Z Bus Sales, Sacramento, California for Manteca Transit.
The City of Manteca transit system operates both fixed route and paratransit services. The bus fleet currently has three 2018 gas powered cutaway buses for Dail-A-Ride services that will exceed their ULB of seven years. It is not cost effective to continue maintain and operating them on a daily basis once they have met or exceeded their ULB of seven years or 200,000 miles. It will take ap...
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