City Council Agenda
Memo to:
Manteca City Council
From:
Carl Brown, Director of Public Works
Prepared by:
Juan Portillo, Public Works Manager - Transit
Date:
January 21, 2025
Subject:
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 $262,571.98 each for a total of $787,715.94, with including a 3% contingency to be funded by grant funding identified in the fiscal impact section.
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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 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) ARBOC cutaway buses from Creative 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 fixed route 24-foot-long gas-powered cutaway buses that will exceed their usable life of 200,000 miles and will need to be replaced this year. It is not cost effective to continue maintain and operating them daily, once they have met or exceeded their useable life of 7 years or 200,000 miles. It ...
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