Hey Denver, it's time for this biweekly meeting of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee of Denver City Council.

Join us for the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee starting now.

Good afternoon.

My name is Chantelus, and I chair the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

Today is December 17th.

I'm excited to kick off our committee.

I'll do a round of introductions.

Councilman Cashmere, would you like to kick us off?

Yes, ma'am.

Paul Cash from South Denver District 6.

Rodalavitris, Lucky District 7.

Uh Kevin Flint, South West Denver District 2.

Just on a personal note, thinking of my late brother, Dennis today would have been 77 years old had he lived uh behind the age of 15.

I always think of my brother on this day.

Thank you.

Yeah, my condolences to you very much.

With that, we can kick it to the folks who are online.

Good afternoon.

Uh Diana Romero Campbell, Southeast Denver District 4.

Thank you.

And we do have a few action items mostly from the Denver International Airport.

And so you all can do a round of introductions and kick off your presentation.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Phil Washington, CEO of Denver International Airport.

Jim Sterling, I'm the Chief Construction and Infrastructure Officer.

My name is Brandon Ganey, Senior Vice President of our Design Engineering and Construction Group.

And we will dive right in, Madam Chair, with uh Brandon Gain.

All right.

Well, uh, good afternoon, Madam Chair Lewis and 10 committee.

Appreciate you all having us here.

Uh we're really excited to present this important and one of a kind contract to you all today.

So uh in the summer of 2024, Den with Phil's initiation determined to uh define this contract as a as an SBE defined pool set aside contract for the C West procurement.

And so since then we have been working with Disbo to make that happen, and so we're really excited to bring that uh bring this to you today.

So just diving right in.

Um, the approval of this contract is what we're looking for.

It's uh a 70 million dollar contract over seven years with V1 consultants.

V1 is uh an SBE certified firm, also an MWBE certified firm.

Um the purpose of the contract is really to manage uh to be Denver's owner's rep, so to speak, but to manage um the Concourse Sea West expansion, uh which is uh our last remaining legacy concourse expansion at the airport, and it's 400,000 square feet and would provide 11 new aircraft gates.

So the scope of work includes a range of services, as I mentioned.

Um they will be representing uh Den and in terms of what that entails.

It's really uh program management, project management, environmental services, uh project controls, which is managing the financial aspects of the program, a lot of permitting management, uh quality assurance, and then stakeholder management.

So Vision 100 alignment, the two pillars that most closely align or track with this uh procurement and contract, is empowering our people.

As mentioned, uh V1 consultants is a certified SBE firm, and being a SBE firm, they're committed to supporting the growth of other SBE firms and promoting diversity and inclusion in the contracting to enhance our supplier base at Den.

So this does align with our vision 100 goal of cultivating talented and diverse workforce dedicated to the excellence of creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued.

It also hits our pillar of growing our infrastructure as mentioned.

Um this uh achieves or helps us achieve our goal of reaching a vision 100, which is reaching 100 million annual passengers at Den in the near future.

And really, these are the projects that will allow us to realize um our future, our future demands and and grow responsibly to serve 100 million passengers.

So, because of this large program, we were programming and putting this out to the community and to industry um since the summer of 2024.

So, in addition to taking flight, which is how we publicize our contracts at Den, we were able to do uh the taking flight initiative uh for five consecutive months to give a lot of uh opportunities for those to to learn more about this uh procurement opportunity.

Additionally, we held uh an industry forum in the summer of 2024 where this project um program and this opportunity was presented to all of those members at the forum, and that was hundreds of folks who came to town um worldwide, actually, uh, for that.

So we touted this piece uh to kind of kick off the the presentation, but want to kind of dive into it a little bit more.

So when we say this is a first of its kind, we really do think it's a first of its kind contract where we've taken a large program from any transit organization, Den being what we think is the first to set aside the contract for only certified SBE firms.

And so we had a very successful procurement.

Um we had uh a number of folks, a number of firms who proposed.

Uh we had one JV and other uh SBE firms, but this was essentially a the way that uh a defined pool works is that the prime contractor has to self-perform 30% of the work.

So that is how it starts.

Um in addition to that, Disbo added a sub-level goal for all of the subconsultants on that to uh aggregate an additional 15%.

So the prime contractor will self perform 30%, and that's a requirement.

And in addition to that 30%, the subconsultants that make up that team that are certified SBEs will uh they will um accommodate or not accommodate, but they will account for 15% of the remaining contract.

So essentially 45% of this contract will be uh dedicated to an SPE certified firm.