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PUC seeks $25 million construction-management contract with Jacobs; committee recommends drafting edits before Board action
Summary
The committee agreed to forward a resolution authorizing a $25 million professional services agreement with Jacobs Engineering for construction management of Bay Division pipeline reliability projects, subject to drafting changes recommended by the budget analyst to remove negotiated-language and clarify execution authority.
The Committee heard a PUC request to approve CS914, a $25,000,000 professional services contract with Jacobs Engineering for construction-management services on three water-system projects in the Bay Division: Bay Division pipeline reliability crossovers, Bay Tunnel tie-ins, and SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) instrumentation.
Johanna Wong, regional project manager for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, said the projects create redundancy, reservoir replenishment capacity and lifeline performance after earthquakes; construction windows for shutdowns are limited to November–March, and the program requires coordination across multiple cities, counties, BART and rail owners. Wong said bid advertisement for construction contracts is anticipated in late summer of the following year.
Budget analyst Harvey Rose noted Jacobs scored highest in the procurement and recommended several drafting amendments: replace the phrase authorizing a negotiated professional services agreement with language to "execute a professional services agreement," remove language allowing award to the next-highest-ranked proposer if negotiations fail, and delete redundant authorization language regarding the general manager’s execution authority.
Supervisor questions focused on schedule (PUC officials said one project is about a year behind due to environmental review) and broader program progress; PUC staff said the programmatic PEIR was recently approved, clearing a major hurdle. The committee adopted the budget analyst’s drafting recommendations and agreed to forward the resolution to the full Board.
