Subject: Re: Public Private Partnership (PPP) Procurement Process
From: "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:59:17 -0400

I am pretty sure CAF is asking us to either get them into an existing consortium that needs a rail car manufacturing/maintenance firm or to help them put together the consortium. This is the case where Lorenzo getting us to talk to Acciona and Aldesa and Colas aren't bad ideas because now we have three potential coalition partners.  What we need is a big American firm to lead it.  

Eric D. Schwerin
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On Aug 31, 2010, at 9:31 PM, Hunter Biden <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Why wouldn't we consider putting together the consortium as defined here?
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> R. Hunter Biden
> 202-333-1880
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> 
> On Aug 30, 2010, at 1:38 PM, Eric Schwerin <[email-masked]> wrote:
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>> Public Private Partnership (PPP) Procurement Process
>> FDOT is planning to award the main body of work for the Tampa-Orlando HSR project through a public-private partnership procurement process.   Specifically, FDOT plans to select a private consortium through a process in which the each consortium will submit proposals to complete the design of the system, then build, operate, maintain and assist with the financing component.  This is known as a DBOM&F process.   The consortiums are privately assembled teams typically consisting of companies with specific expertise in one or more components related to the design, construction, operation, maintenance, operation or financing of HSR and other large public infrastructure projects.    
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>> To secure the best value and maximize competition, FDOT is advancing multiple parallel activities required to prepare the RFPs, as well as provide the FRA with the necessary information to approve the initiation of this procurement.  The most significant activity involves advancing the preliminary engineering to a 30 percent level to produce a refined construction cost estimate by October 2010.  This level of estimating will provide FRA and FDOT with higher certainty in overall program costs and assist in finalizing a financing plan.  The preliminary engineering documents also will serve as an attachment to the RFP for the DBOM&F contract, providing more detailed information for proposers to use in their proposal preparation.  FDOT also will update ridership studies and forecasts, which will be included in the DBOMF RFP. 
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>> Subject again to FRA approval, FDOT anticipates it will issue a Request for Qualification for private sector consortium teams in early November 2010.  Consortium teams would be qualified in the first quarter of 2011.  FDOT is tentatively planning to issue the formal DBOMF RFP in March 2011 to the qualified proposers.  It has not yet been determined if there will be a short-listing of these qualified proposers to a reduced number.   FDOT has not established definitive submittals dates for the responses to the RFQ or determined the date by which the winning consortium would be selected.  However, construction is assumed to begin no later than the third quarter of 2012, concurrent with the completion of the Early Works Safety project.  FDOT also projects Phase I (Tampa-Orlando) would be complete and in revenue service in 2015.
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>> Eric D. Schwerin
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