3.1.1 – Group 1: Mobile Fueling Station The City is transitioning its group of 500 fixed-route vehicles to meet the goal of a 100% zeroemission fleet by 2040. In pursuit of this goal, PTD has developed a transition plan, which includes the deployment of FCEB’s. The City has procured twelve (12) FCEBs for this project, with expected delivery taking place from mid-to-late 2025 (see Attachment 3). The City intends to purchase more buses beyond 2025. Station uptime and fuel supply reliability are critical to ensuring the success of the City’s project as the 12 buses will enter revenue service and any downtime will affect the City’s spare ratio. The Contractor shall provide for the lease or purchase and commissioning of a turnkey, 350-bar, liquid, mobile hydrogen fueling station (“Mobile Fueling Station”) to initially fuel twelve (12) 40-foot Fuel Cell Electric Buses (“FCEB”) at PTD’s West Operating Facility. As more FCEBs are added to the fleet, more fueling will be required. Performance under this Contract shall include the furnishing of all labor, equipment, materials, testing, tools, warranty, training, and other services required by the Scope of Work sections below. The selected contractor will install a temporary hydrogen fueling station (“Mobile Fueling Station”) at the West base facility to fuel the FCEBs. The fueling station must be fully brought into working condition and available to PTD for fueling its buses within nine months (in or about October 2025) after the City provides the Group 1 Contractor with an NTP for the Contract’s Group 1 Services (in or about January 2025). However, if the Mobile Fueling Station is not fully brought into working condition and available to PTD for fueling its buses within four months (in or about May 2025) after the City provides the Group 1 Contractor with an NTP for the Contract’s Group 1 Services, then the Contractor must provide a leased gaseous or liquid mobile fueler (“Interim Mobile Fueler”) as an interim fueling solution until the Mobile Fueling Station is installed and ready to fuel. The cost for the Mobile Fueling Station, whether lease or purchase, is inclusive of all costs for lease of the Interim Mobile Fueler if necessary. The City is expecting a solution that will meet the fueling performance requirements of 12 or more FCEB fleet while minimizing the amount of permanent infrastructure installed at the site for the Mobile Fueling Station. The City will accept proposals for liquid delivery hydrogen station configurations that meet performance requirements. The City has identified the location for the Mobile Fueling Station that will work best for its operations and desires that proposers will be able to provide solutions that fit within those parameters. The mobile fueling system is intended to be used as a temporary method of fueling FCEB until the design and construction of a larger and permanent hydrogen fueling system is put out to bid. The permanent facility project will be bid under a separate scope/contract. The mobile fueling system is expected to dispense hydrogen via delivery of low pressure liquid cryogenic hydrogen pumped and gasified on site with the Contractor equipment. The supplier for this scope of work shall provide all of the physical infrastructure required for the mobile fueling system to operate. The initial configuration should achieve fast fill rates of at least 12 40-foot buses in 8 hours, filling each bus with at least 25 kg (of 37.5 kg tank), which will support the City’s deployment plans. The contractor will be responsible for all aspects of the project, including the permitting; setting and installation of the physical infrastructure, which shall be performed by an appropriately licensed contractor retained by the supplier; commissioning of the mobile fueling system; and 36 months of maintenance of the mobile fueling system. Fueling of the FCEBs will be performed by the City and its operations contractor. 3.1.2 – Group 2: Supply Hydrogen Fuel The selected Group 2 contractor must provide hydrogen fuel at the West Transit Facility for fueling the FCEBs. Gaseous or liquid hydrogen must be supplied and available to PTD for fueling its FCEBs promptly after the Group 1 Contractor fully brings into working condition an Interim Mobile Fueler in or about May 2025, if the Group 1 Contractor cannot fully bring into working condition a Mobile Fueling Station by that time. Liquid or gaseous hydrogen must be supplied and available to PTD for fueling its FCEBs promptly after the Group 1 Contractor fully brings into working condition the Mobile Fueling Station.
