RT Primes & Subs Conference 2006 a Booming Success
January 10, 2006

Nearly 300 attendees, including representatives from 160 different businesses, convened for the 2nd Annual Sacramento Regional Transit Primes & Subcontractors Conference on January 10, 2006 for network­ing and potential partnering on contracts for the designing and building of Sacramento Regional Transit District’s planned light rail extensions which are expected to total more than $1billion. The sold-out event held at the Lions Gate Garden Pavilion, McClellan, California, was co-hosted by Sacramento Regional Transit (RT) and The Federal Technology Center (The FTC). During the conference, Dr. Beverly Scott, General Manager and CEO of RT, encouraged firms to start building partnerships now for the future major light rail expansion projects. The RT executive management team provided insight about upcoming projects and conveyed RT’s interest in gaining new quality partners. “As a result of the last RT event in 2005, six new IT vendors have been added to work with us on projects. We are pleased to have new businesses assist us with our IT needs,” states Roger Thorn, Director of IT/ITS, RT.

Many of the small businesses who participated on the recently completed Folsom Corridor Light Rail Extension were Dis­advantaged Business Enterprises (DBE), a federal small business development program. RT pre­sented fifteen businesses with the Golden Spike Award for having $500,000 or more in DBE participation, or for their achievements as a DBE Prime Contractors. The Golden Spike Award winners were Acanthus; Azteca Construction, Inc.; B&C Transit Consultants; DMJM Har­ris; Dynaram Construction, Inc.; Hatch Mott Macdonald; Herzog Contracting Corporation; The Hoyt Company; John F. Otto, Inc.; Kiewit Pacific Company; LTK Engineering Services; Mar­tinez Electric Transport; Stacy & Witbeck, Inc.’ URS Corporation; and Vali Cooper & Associates. On behalf of Congressman Dan Lungren, 3rd California District, Peter Tateishi congratulated the award winners and expressed the Congressman’s support for small businesses. The 3rd Annual Primes & Subcontractors Conference will be held on January 24, 2007.

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Cameron Beach, John Seggerdell, and
Mike Mattos, members of the RT executive management team, provided an overview
of products and services RT would be purchasing in the upcoming year.

The exhibit room was full of representatives from small businesses, large businesses, Regional Transit, and other government agencies.