Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority: contracting.

Existing law creates the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, with specified powers and duties with respect to transportation planning, programming, construction, and operations. Existing law authorizes the authority to enter into contracts with private entities that combine into a single contract all or some of the planning, design, permitting, development, joint development, construction, construction management, acquisition, leasing, installation, and warranty of some or all components of transit systems and certain facilities. Existing law authorizes the authority to award a contract under these provisions after a finding, by a 23 vote of the members of the authority, that awarding the contract will achieve for the authority, among other things, certain private sector efficiencies in the integration of design, project work, and components. Under existing law, a contract awarded pursuant to these provisions may include operation and maintenance elements if the inclusion of those elements meets certain requirements. This bill would eliminate the requirement to make the above-described finding by a 23 vote of the members of the authority in order to award contracts under these provisions. The bill would instead authorize the authority to award these contracts that include operation and maintenance elements after a finding, by a 23 vote of the members of the authority, that awarding the contract will achieve for the authority a more competitive solicitation process with respect to quality, timeliness, price, and other private sector efficiencies, relevant to the integration of design, project work, and components.