From the sidewalk to the train without one step
Design-build, ten elevators, four stations on the Eastbank Line, $197.1M. Trains keep running the whole way. Pick who's traveling and take the trip.
1Transmittal and summary
Office of Procurement, Tessmere Metropolitan Transit
Re: Solicitation TMT-DB-26-0417, Volume II
Four stations on the Eastbank Line still ask a rider to climb. Ninepin Road and Kilnhouse Hill sit above the street on 1920s steel. Tanyard Cross and Quoin Street sit below it, and Quoin is 46 feet down with no way around 79 steps.
Dunmarrow Civil will design and build ten elevators across those four stations, rebuild the platform edges and hand you step-free routes in 34.5 months, 45 days inside your 36 month limit. Service never stops for a whole week. Every track outage we need is drawn in Section 3, where your service planners can test it.
This response follows your Section order. Our offer is $197.1M, itemized in Section 7, with one exception to your terms and one partial, both explained in Section 6.
How you score this, and where each point is answered
2The station plan, by the trip
Your RFP asks for a station plan. A plan shows where the elevator goes. This shows what a rider does on Tuesday morning, today and after, at each station. Every flight is counted at a seven inch riser and every minute is added up below the drawing.
For the Chief Accessibility Officer, will my riders fit?
Your specification sets 54 inches of depth. We've drawn 65, because the people who complain about a legal cab are the ones with an attendant. Choose a device and change the depth. The cab plan shows what's left to turn in.
3Staging while the trains run
Each hairline below is a scheduled train on the Eastbank Line in a typical week. Tap a cell to book a general order for that work zone. Weeknights repeat for all 80 access weeks. A weekend repeats every fourth week, so 20 in all. Your service planners can break our plan here before they see us.
For the VP of Service Planning, how tight does the platform get?
Hoarding around the Quoin Street shaft takes platform width during the peak. Move the line and see the flow when a full train empties, 130 people a minute past that point. We've held it to six feet, and we close the north stair only at night.
Seven stages over 116 weeks at Quoin Street, from survey to opening, with trains running through the drawing at every stage.
4Community outreach
Nobody reads a notice in a language they don't speak or on a stair they can't climb. Tallow Row Partners runs outreach at each station from a storefront within sight of the entrance, with six languages and one phone number that a person answers.
For the Director of Community Affairs, who knows before the outage?
Slide toward the first night of a general order. Each notice goes on the board on its date, and the reach is the count of households, stops and subscribers for one station's catchment.
5Team and past performance
For the Chief of Capital Delivery, what eats the float?
Our schedule carries 45 days of float against your 36 month limit. Switch on the three things most likely to go wrong and see the bars push. Past float, liquidated damages run at your $28,000 a day. We've priced the second shift already, so it costs you nothing to use it.
6Compliance matrix
For the Contract Officer, does the goal hold up?
Your goal is 22 percent, raised by Addendum 3. These are the certified firms on Form B with their committed value. Pull one out and see whether we still clear it. We carry two more firms as named alternates for flagging and trucking if one fails certification.
7Price proposal
Each tile is a million dollars of the wall we're asking to build. Drop any line and its tiles come off, and it says what you give up. The base stays the same in every combination. We'd keep every line that's on, and we'd add the second street elevator at Quoin only if your board wants a route that survives one outage at your deepest station.
8Clarifications, addenda and panel questions
Every addendum is acknowledged on Form A and worked into this response. The panel's questions from the October 28 interview are answered in the open, dated, so nobody reads a different story.
Ask the panel's question here
Add a question and it joins the log on this page, dated today. Nothing is sent from this form. On the live response it routes through your Contract Officer, as the solicitation requires.
9Required forms and signature
Terms in plain words. The price holds for 180 days. Payment follows the five milestones in Section 7, with five percent retainage. A performance and a payment bond each cover the full price. Liquidated damages are $28,000 a day against the 36 month limit.
What's still open. Your power cutover date at Tanyard Cross and the final utility survey at Quoin Street. Both are in our float, and we've said how much each one can move.
Renata, Project Executive and authorized signer, Dunmarrow Civil