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New Contract for Emergency Onsite Fleet Service
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DESCRIPTION: Onsite fleet service for revenue service vehicles.
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ACTION REQUEST:
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RECOMMENDATION:
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To authorize the Chief Executive Officer to enter emergency onsite fleet service contracts to multiple vendors if needed for revenue service vehicles repair services in the not to exceed amount of $1,000,000.
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ISSUE/BACKGROUND:
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The agency has lost some of its skilled workers over the past few years as a large portion of the employees have approached retirement age. The agency is working to hire qualified mechanics; however, finding qualified individuals takes time and there seems to be a labor shortage for this skilled labor.
As a result of lost staff and the fleet getting older, it becomes increasingly difficult to keep vehicles on the road. 42% of the fleet has exceeded its useful life, an additional 6% of the fleet will be over its FTA end-of-life threshold (12 years 500,000 miles) and is about to reach the end of its use in the next 12 months. As the agency has picked up additional service miles, it is becoming increasingly difficult for the agency to keep these aged buses on the road.
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DISCUSSION:
With an aged fleet, and a new workforce coming in, the agency needs additional skilled labor for the repair of its buses. Much like traveling nurses in the medical field, there are companies that provide traveling mechanics. Due to labor shortages across the country, and the status of our current fleet, staff will reach out to multiple agencies to provide technicians. The agency is looking to contract 8 positions through as many companies as needed to get assistance.
While these technicians are here, we intend to utilize these decisions to reduce our out-of-service and get our fleet into stable working condition. The staff is also working on setting up training for ou...
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