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TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS C
FROM: Phil Batchelor, County Administrator Contra
Costa
DATE: February 28, 1985 County
SUBJECT: Allegation of Irregularities in Award of Caltrans
Construction Project
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION
Acknowledge receipt of report from County Administrator submitted in
response to Board referral advising that alleged irregularities are under
both legislative and legal review.
BACKGROUND
On February 12, 1985, Supervisor Torlakson brought to the attention of
the Board the possible adoption of a resolution joining in the request
of Alameda County, the City of Oakland and others that Caltrans review
. the award of a contract for Project No. 04-410914 , the construction of
Interstate 580/Highway 238 interchanges. This contract was awarded to
an Oregon joint-venture, R. A. Hatch Contruction Company and Roadway
Construction Company, for approximately $43 . 6 million. A number of
labor organizations have strongly objected to the award of this contract,
asserting that at the time of the bid opening on November 27 , 1984 , the
contractor did not hold a California contractor' s license, that several
of the Minority and Women' s Business Enterprises Subcontractors were not
in fact legitimate business enterprises and that the contractor is an
out-of-state, non-union contractor.
In review of this matter, it was determined that the Board of Supervisors
of Alameda County, the City of Oakland, the City of Hayward and other
organizations in Alameda County have protested this bid award. These
actions caused sufficient concern that a concurrent legislative hearing
of a State Senate and two Assembly Committees was convened on this issue
in Oakland on Friday, February 22 at which these allegations were fully
aired.
Additionally, it was determined that a suit has been filed in Alameda
County by several unions asserting that award of this contract is in viola-
tion of the State Contractors Act. A hearing on this lawsuit will be held
in the latter part of March.
Inasmuch as the objective of this referral, the accomplishment of a review
of this contract award, has already been accomplished, no further action
is necessarv.
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