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Committee narrows mobility sourcing procurement: approves one‑year, $30 million pilot instead of five‑year $130 million pool
Summary
The committee approved a revised procurement approach for a mobility sourcing pool to accelerate purchases of proprietary transit parts and services, limiting the initial authorization to $30 million for one year with required reporting and commission ratification of contracts.
The Appropriations Committee considered a Department of Transportation and Public Works proposal to create a multi‑year mobility sourcing pool that would allow the department to negotiate directly with proprietary or single‑source vendors for parts and services used to maintain buses and rail. DTPW Chief of Intergovernmental Affairs Phil Edwards and procurement staff said the county’s bus fleet and rail systems rely on proprietary parts and that competitive procurements…
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