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Dear Certified Local Businesses,

Below is our schedule of monthly workshops.  Please note that the location of the first two workshops have changed to our new office location:

Contract Monitoring Division

30 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 200

San Francisco,  CA   94102

Weekly Workshop Series Each Wednesday of the Month!

Learn everything you need to know about contracting with the City and  County  of  San Francisco  through our FREE, WORKSHOP SERIES!

The San Francisco Human Rights Commission offers THREE workshops designed to teach businesses everything they need to know about doing business with the City and County of San Francisco, including:

v     Becoming a City vendor

v     Bidding on City contracts

v  Participating in the Local Business  Enterprise  (LBE) Certification Program

The workshops are FREE and held EACH WEDNESDAY of the month. Reservations are not required, but highly recommended. 

Or Click Here:

http://www.sfgsa.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=9554

Beverly H. Popek, Acting Contract Compliance Officer 1

Certification Unit

Contract Monitoring Division (CMD)

30 Van Ness Avenue  |  Suite  200  |  San Francisco  | CA | 94102

Direct 415-581-2319 | Main 415-581-2310

Beverly.Popek@sfgov.org

Visit us at sfgov.org/cmd

Please note new address and telephone numbers

The 2012 San Jose Turner School of Construction Management training program begins July 10th.  We are honored that the City of San Jose, NorCal MBC, businessownerspace.com  and NCMSDC are the official sponsors for this program.

Classes will be held on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 6:00 to 8:30 PM with a graduation scheduled for August 23rd (see attached brochure and application form for more information).   If you are interested in attending this training program, submit your application before the June 22nd deadline.  All applicants will be notified of their acceptance via email by the end of June.

Individuals enrolled in the program gain insights and meaningful tools that help them target their business for quality and growth while, at the same time, develop new strategic business relationships.  In addition to the opportunity to take a course at NO COST, each participant will receive the following benefits:

• Instruction by industry experts – Turner key staff and/or industry experts instruct all of the classes.
• A “Certification of Achievement” signed by program sponsors for successfully completing the program (presented at a graduation ceremony and only after attending a minimum of nine classes).
• Seven weeks of networking opportunities with other program participants and key Turner staff.
• Describe fundamentals of estimating and effective methods for locating, obtaining, managing and scheduling work.
• Understand key concepts of contract management.
• Hands on group exercises in estimating and scheduling that offer participants real life work experience

If you have any questions, please contact me directly.  This is the second year that we have offered this program in San Jose and we look forward to serving you and the community.  Thank you!

PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR FLYER AND SIGN UP FORM

Elena Anaya

Community Affairs Director

Turner Construction Company

1111 Broadway Street, Suite 2100, Oakland, CA 94607

T 510-267-8241 | F 510-267-8118 | C 415-553-0371

eanaya@tcco.com | www.turnerconstruction.com

The next Turner School of Construction Management course begins May 1st  in Oakland.  We are thrilled that Union Bank, East Bay Municipal Utility District, and Builder’s Exchange of Alameda County are sponsoring the training program in Oakland. Deadline to submit applications is April 13th.

Classes are on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 6:00 to 8:30 PM with a graduation scheduled for June 19th (see attached brochure and application form for more information). 

Individuals enrolled in the program gain insights and meaningful tools that help them target their business for quality and growth while, at the same time, develop new strategic business relationships.  In addition to the opportunity to take a course at NO COST, each participant will receive the following benefits:

• Instruction by industry experts – Turner key staff and/or industry experts instruct all of the classes.
  
• A “Certification of Achievement” signed by program sponsors for successfully completing the program (presented at a graduation ceremony and only after attending a minimum of nine classes).
  
• Seven weeks of networking opportunities with other program participants and key Turner staff.
  
• Describe fundamentals of estimating and effective methods for locating, obtaining, managing and scheduling work.
  
• Understand key concepts of contract management.
  
• Hands on group exercises in estimating and scheduling that offer participants real life work experience. 
  

Click the link below to download the brochure and application.

2012 TSCM Oakland brochure _ application.pdf

Please forward the brochure and application to a minority-owned, women-owned, disabled veteran, disadvantaged or small-sized company in the construction industry that may benefit from this program.  Thank you!

Best,

Elena Anaya
Community Affairs Director
Turner Construction Company
1111 Broadway Street, Suite 2100, Oakland, CA 94607
T 510-267-8241 | F 510-267-8118 | C 415-553-0371

eanaya@tcco.com | www.turnerconstruction.com 

Assemblywoman Ma leads California High Speed Rail forum at April Program

AAAE President Kendall Young welcomed over 100 attendees at the organization’s April 2010 event. He cited that one of the AAAE goals is to be an advocate for increasing A/E business opportunities for the small businesses, including minority and woman-owned, in the Bay Area. The Program Chair, Winifred Au, introduced Assemblywoman Fiona Ma and representatives of the prime consulting firms providing Program Management and Regional Design for the California High Speed Rail Project (HSR). Among the speakers were Assemblywoman Ma, Speaker pro Tempore, the California HSR Authority’s (CAHSRA) Deputy Director Dan Leavitt, Jim Bourgart and Dominic Spaethling of PB (Program Management), Brent Ogden of AECOM (Regional Design), Robert Sergeant of Parsons (Regional Design), and Peter Gertler of HNTB (Regional Design).

The speakers described the project as 800 miles long with 26 stations and 150 miles of bridges, viaducts and elevated structures. The project is divided into 2 phases, the first being San Francisco to Los Angeles with a later Phase 2 for the Sacramento to Merced, Los Angeles to San Diego and the proposed Altamont Corridor.

Leavitt stated that Phase 1 has an overall construction cost of $42.6 billion to be financed from state, federal, local and private (P3) investment funds, with federal funds being the largest contributor. The recent $2.25 billion federal stimulus grant sets September 2012 as the deadline to obligate the funds and begin construction.

Leavitt also stated that the CHSRA recognizes California’s diverse mixture of cultures and interests and notes that the proposers need to be sensitive towards reaching and including these populations when developing their teams. The CHSRA will follow state and federal contracting SBE/DVBE and DBE guidelines for design and construction contracts.

Leavitt identified the Principal Consultants currently under contract for the preliminary design as:

• Program Management                                                                 Parsons Brinckerhoff
• PM Oversight (PMO)                                                                     T.Y. Lin, International
• Environmental & Engineering Segments  for Phase 1
  • San Francisco – San Jose                                               HNTB Corporation
  • San Jose – Merced                                                          Parsons Transportation Group
  • Merced – Fresno                                                             AECOM Transportation
  • Fresno – Bakersfield                                                       URS/Hatch Mott MacDonald/Arup
  • Bakersfield – Palmdale                                                  URS/Hatch Mott MacDonald/Arup
  • Palmdale – Los Angeles                                                 Hatch Mott MacDonald
  • Los Angeles – Anaheim                                                  STV Inc
• Environmental & Engineering Segments  for Phase 2
  • Los Angeles – San Diego                                                HNTB Corporation
  • Sacramento – Merced                                                   AECOM Transportation
  • Altamont Corridor Rail Project                                    AECOM Transportation

Leavitt indicated that a design-build concept will be used by the CAHSRA to deliver the projects, and that only the Program Management team will be precluded from competing for the design-build contracts.

Each of the regional design teams will be seeking local teaming partners to subcontract A/E design.

Robert Sergeant of Parsons Transportation Group discussed the benefits of the prime teaming with small businesses, e.g. local experience, local relationships and specialized expertise, especially during the permitting process.

In closing, President Young thanked Assemblywoman Ma for arranging the forum and all of the participating panelists.  He shared his thoughts that the most successful  example in our history of fair and equitable distribution of public contracts occurred at the expansion of the San Francisco International Airport.  The selection of A/E primes for the over $1.5 billion expansion program was open and transparent.  Subcontracting requirements were extensive and allowed many of our members to participate.   He expressed his hope that a similar process can occur with the High Speed Rail project.

By Maxine Young, The Marketing Department

“Providing complete marketing department services to A/E/C firms too small to support their own”.

maxine@maxineyoung.com