Design-Build-Finance-Operate-Maintain: SJC Airport to Diridon Station Connector RFP

Design-Build-Finance-Operate-Maintain: SJC Airport to Diridon Station Connector RFPDOT 10183 RFPClosing Date:11/08/2022 11:00:00 AM PTDetail: The City of San José ("City") is the tenth largest city in the United States and the City-owned Norman Y. Mineta International Airport (SJC) is one of the fastest-growing airports in the U.S. The City projects significant growth in the next 20 years and anticipates continued investment in private development in its Downtown. In response to the continued growth of Silicon Valley, local and regional leaders seek to create a transit connection between SJC and regional job centers. In 2000, Santa Clara County passed Measure A, which established a 30-year half-cent sales tax to support transit projects that included the Airport Connector. Recently, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) adopted the Plan Bay Area 2050 which identifies the Airport Connector as a priority project. The City seeks to develop a scalable Transit Solution that

connects SJC to Diridon Station in Downtown San José (as described more fully in this RFP, the "Airport Connector" or "Project"). Diridon Station is an intermodal transportation hub that includes regional rail systems and local and intercity light-rail and bus services. Over the next 15 years, Diridon Station will undergo significant capital improvements to increase its capacity to serve the region. It is projected to be the busiest transit hub in the Western U.S. by 2040. The City's aim is to align the Project schedule with the SJC Capital Improvement Program and Diridon Station capital improvement schedule, to the extent possible. The City seeks to work with a Developer(s) to identify whether a public/private partnership can facilitate delivery of the Project at a faster pace and at a reduced cost to the City than under a traditional method of delivery. Through this Request for Proposal (RFP) the City requests that proposers ("Proposers") submit a proposal ("Proposal") for the performance of predevelopment work for the Project under a Predevelopment Agreement (PDA), with the potential opportunity to enter into an implementation agreement ("Implementation Agreement") after completion of the predevelopment work for delivery of the Project on a long-term, market-risk revenue design-build-finance-operate-maintain (DBFOM) basis. The City may award up to two PDAs, as further described in Section 3 (Anticipated Project Structure).