Professional A&E Services for the New Operations Control Center at VTA Almaden Headquarters

Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) seeks proposals from responsive and responsible qualified firms to provide engineering design services for the New Operations Control Center ("OCC") at the VTA Almaden Headquarters and further described in the Scope of Work.

The new OCC to be located on the 11 ^th floor of the Almaden HQ building will support both light rail as well as bus operations. Portion of the 11 ^th floor of the Almaden HQ building will be also used by VTA’s Express Lanes Traffic Operations Center (TOC design & construction by others). The gross area of the 11 ^th floor is about 25,000 sf out of which OCC will have 19,000 sf and TOC will have 6,000 sf. Once VTA board approves the contract between VTA and the design consultant (Contractor) for the new OCC, VTA will share the existing drawings for the Almaden HQ along with the proposed improvements & schedule to accommodate VTA staff on floors 11-17.

VTA will replace the existing Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (“SCADA”) system and Operations Control Center with a new state of the art Operations Control Center (“OCC”). The new OCC/SCADA will be located in VTA’s new headquarters building (“Almaden HQ”) located at 488 S. Almaden Boulevard in downtown San Jose, California. VTA staff will occupy floors 11 – 17 at the Almaden HQ. Currently, all listed floors in the Almaden HQ are going through renovations. Move-in/Occupancy by VTA staff to Almaden HQ floors 12-17 is scheduled for December 2026.