The Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) District's Oakland Airport Connector (OAC) project, a 3.2-mile (5 km) APM to link the BART regional rail system to the Oakland International Airport, is now under construction with opening day scheduled for fall 2014. This project is subject to Buy America provisions due to receipt of funding and oversight from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA). The FTA Buy America provisions include: (1) Rolling stock, including vehicles, train control, communications, and traction power equipment: The cost of components produced domestically must be more than 60% of the total cost of the components and all final assembly must take place in the U.S. (2.) Manufactured products, including guideway and guideway equipment, stations and station equipment, and maintenance facilities and maintenance equipment: 100% must be produced in the U.S. Seven separate certificates for each end product were required as part of the proposal. While Buy America provisions are used for many transit projects throughout the country, this was groundbreaking as one of the first examples for an APM project. In addition, the system's supplier, Doppelmayr Cable Car (DCC), part of the Flatiron / Parsons Joint Venture (FPJV) that was eventually awarded the contract, provides a cable-propelled system, adding complexity to the definition of the rolling stock components. This paper discusses the preparations leading up to the FTA required pre-award review and current status of compliance with the Buy America requirements. The FTA required pre-award review for vehicles, which was performed in fall 2009. There was ongoing discussion between FTA and BART regarding the definition of vehicles. With DCC cable system technology, the vehicle is actually just the shell, with the propulsion motors located at the maintenance facility. For the audit, BART's position was that the vehicle definition could include the wayside propulsion system and braking equipment. FTA was not in agreement with BART's position, and the audit was revisited. DCC showed 98.2% in their pre-award review, far exceeding the Buy America requirements. As the project progresses, DCC is providing quarterly updates with actual cost information. The latest update shows compliance with Buy America requirements for all seven end products. FTA also requires a post delivery review to be performed. This is scheduled for late fall 2014.


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    Title :

    BART OAC Project: Application of Buy America to a Cable-Propelled System


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    14th International Conference on Automated People Movers and Automated Transit Systems ; 2013 ; Phoenix, Arizona



    Publication date :

    2013-04-29




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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