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PUC awards CS 9/10 contract to ARA amid protests over reference checks and release-of-liability language
Summary
The SFPUC accepted staff’s recommendation May 13 to award the CS 9/10 WESIP professional services agreement to ARA Engineering after staff described evaluation scoring and reference-check processes; two losing bidders protested, arguing reference and waiver language was unclear, and the commission discussed whether the deficiencies were clerical or substantive before voting to accept staff’s recommendation.
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission voted May 13 to accept staff’s recommendation to award the CS 9/10 Water System Improvement Program professional-services agreement to ARA Engineering after an extended presentation on the selection process and protests from competing teams.
Harlan Kelly, assistant general manager for infrastructure, described the procurement as evaluated across written proposals, references, oral interviews and a price-related "project multiplier." Reference checks were treated on a pass/fail basis: proposers who provided required reference information and a signed release of…
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