Request for Proposals- Regional Transit Service- Brockton, Taunton, Fall River Connection

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REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP) TO OPERATE REGIONAL TRANSIT SERVICE CONNECTING THE CITIES OF BROCKTON, TAUNTON, AND FALL RIVER The Greater Attleboro Taunton Regional Transit Authority (GATRA) is seeking to contract with a qualified transportation company to manage and operate a regional service between the cities of Brockton, Taunton, and Fall River. The Company selected will have to be qualified to do business in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The company will be under contract with GATRA and report directly to the GATRA Administrator and staff. A pre-proposal conference will be held virtually on January 30, 2025 at 10:00 a.m., at which time more details of the transportation service will be discussed. The link to the meeting will be furnished upon request to karaujo@gatra.org. All proposers are strongly encouraged to attend the Pre-Proposal Conference. I. AUTHORITY TRANSIT SERVICES The Greater Attleboro Taunton Regional Transit Authority (GATRA) was created pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 161B of the Massachusetts General Laws of the Acts of 1973. The Authority is given general responsibility to develop, finance, and contract for the operation of mass transportation facilities and services within its territory. The territorial area of the Authority consists of the Cities of Attleboro and Taunton, and the Towns of Bellingham, Berkley, Carver, Dighton, Duxbury, Foxborough, Franklin, Halifax, Hanover, Kingston, Lakeville, Mansfield, Marshfield, Medway, Middleboro, Norfolk, North Attleboro, Norton, Pembroke, Plainville, Plymouth, Plympton, Raynham, Rehoboth, Scituate, Seekonk, Wareham, and Wrentham. GATRA oversees operations of demand response services in its thirty communities and fixed route bus services in many of the GATRA communities. The day-to-day affairs of the Authority are managed by an Administrator who is appointed by the Advisory Board. The Advisory Board consists of the Mayors of the Cities of Attleboro and Taunton and the Chairman, or their designees, of the Boards of Selectmen of the member towns. II. Minimum RFP Responsiveness Requirements Any company that does not provide the following by the RFP deadline may be determined nonresponsive (it is GATRA’s sole discretionary determination as to whether a proposal is complete) and may be removed from further consideration. A. A minimum of three (3) years of work experience with transit operations. B. Submission of all required State and Federal certification forms found in Exhibit 1. C.