The Use of Contracting by Public Transit Agencies in California

Details

• Corporate Creators:
  Systan Inc. ; Homitz, Allen and Associates ; Geri Cross and Associates
• Corporate Contributors:
  California. Department of Transportation
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Private enterprise
  • Contracting
  • Public transit
• Publication/ Report Number:
  CA/DMT/UMTA-9-86-153
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1404684
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  California ; United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation
• Description:
  This study documents and assesses the use of contracting arrangements by public transit agencies in California for obtaining goods and services from the private sector. The study's purpose is to describe contracting by public transit agencies, as the beginning process to ascertain the need for assistance in contracting and prescribe the form of that assistance if it is needed. This report addresses (1)the scope of contracting defined as the variety of goods and services purchased; (2) the quantity of contracting-defined in terms of dollars contracted, the number of contracts and other numeric measures; and (3)the quality of contracting. It is intended to provide information to demonstrate the present use of contracting in transit operations, and to aid transit agencies in understanding how to use contracting effectively.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/13348/dot_13348_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 5.01 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:82117abbb1b23eb826ec084d270e4f387ace6aa54bd44c224078194c0d78a58d2eaff84be7e9e38c5a73f75e9cbdc0cc1d12c30f7fc4c2aeaa1f86c650785162