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Historical Overview Privately held company . Started in San Francisco in 1890 . Rebuilt after 1906 earthquake . Always in the transportation business . (2) Owners in last (40) years New location in Livermore, CA . Purpose Built for GILLIG Bus Production . 600,000 sq. ft. on 41 acres . All work done in USA Employs (900+) US Citizens . 2 Unions, (600+) Members . 72% minorities and women Takes pride in: . 128 year U.S. heritage . Happy Customers/Partners . Ongoing business success PROUDLY MADE IN THE USA QUALIFICATIONS CER 6. PRE-AWARD EVALUATION DATA FORM . GILLIG is the manufacturer of LOW FLOOR heavy-duty transit buses in 29 foot, 35 foot, and 40 foot lengths by 102 inch widths – DIESEL, CNG, OR HYBRID ELECTRIC models. GILLIG was founded 128 years ago in San Francisco and is a 100% U.S. OWNED AND OPERATED manufacturing company now located in our new state of the art manufacturing facility in Livermore, California (approximately 45 miles southeast of San Francisco). GILLIG manufactures all vehicles on the same production line at this one (1) location only with the same qualified and experienced staff. 7. SCHEDULE ONE – NOT APPLICABLE 8. SCHEDULE TWO – FINANCIAL INFORMATION – SEE ITEM 3 FOLLOWING 9. SCHEDULE THREE GILLIG does not subcontract the manufacture of our transit buses. We manufacture the entire vehicle at one (1) location only in Livermore, California. GILLIG MANAGEMENT PLAN GILLIG understands the requirements of this solicitation, and believes we have the expertise, resources and capabilities to fully meet your requirements in this and future purchases. This management plan, which is organized in the following categories -- past experience, current build program and future build and support plan is intended to assure you that we can. PAST EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS GILLIG LLC is a 128 year old company that is a Federal Transit Administration (FTA) qualified Transit Vehicle Manufacturer (TVM), and as such meets all FTA requirements imposed on grantees of Federal funding, including DBE goals, Buy America provisions and Bus Test requirements. GILLIG has designed, built and delivered nearly 25,000 transit buses to transit properties around the U.S.A. over the past 20 years. GILLIG has also never been late on a contracted or promised delivery in the past decade and all buses have been accepted and used in transit service (some with over 2 million miles) without a major problem or recall. Consequently, GILLIG is familiar with and can fully satisfy all the terms, conditions and requirements of building and selling transit buses that are safe, effective, comfortable and suitable for revenue service in a transit application, and purchased with FTA and local funding. In addition, we are proud of our vehicles’ reputation for reliability and operating economy. The vehicle proposed in this submission is a heavy duty, purpose-built transit bus, designed specifically for revenue service in a transit application. It is designed to exceed FTA requirements of a 12 year or 500,000 mile service life. The vehicle will also meet all applicable FMVSS requirements and all applicable EPA emission standards. In addition, it will be capable of safe operation at legal freeway speeds, have industry acceptable acceleration and gradability exceeding 15%, while fully complying with the specifications of this solicitation and any applicable modifications or addenda approved by your agency and made part of this solicitation. GILLIG MANAGEMENT PLAN GILLIG’s qualifications are based on --- • A proven history of Product and Company Performance • Extensive and Proven Engineering Expertise • Extensive and Proven Manufacturing Expertise • Extensive and Proven Management Expertise • Appropriate and Proven Engineering, Manufacturing and Support Facilities • Abundant Financial Strength and Organizational Stability • An excellent history of Customer Testimonials Some of our buses are still in active service after 17 years and 2 million miles of transit duty service, an excellent testimonial to our Experience and Qualifications. GILLIG’s history and experience relevant to your needs include delivering multi-year contracts of hundreds and hundreds of buses to Seattle, St. Paul, Cincinnati, Richmond, Hampton and Lynx - Orlando, to name a few. All of these buses were of similar complexity to your order, had similar costs and were built and managed by most of the same people in the GILLIG organization. A complete customer list with all details is included in our submission. CURRENT BUILD PROGRAM GILLIG’s management plan for this current build includes the appropriate commitment of resources, expertise and time to fulfill your build requirements as covered in the following: • Specification compliance • Build capability and delivery plan • Support structure and plan • Employee and management experience • Organizational stability Specification Compliance is ensured by our experience and ability in meeting other larger and smaller transit agencies’ transit bus needs. In addition, GILLIG has certified in this submission that it completely understands the procurement’s specifications and requirements, and will fully comply with them. GILLIG MANAGEMENT PLAN Build Capability is ensured by our Engineering expertise (meeting design requirements), which includes 37 degreed and experienced engineers supported by 14 additional engineers with transit bus experience and other clerical support exclusively for bus programs. Our financial strength also ensures build capability (allows purchase of inventory and supplies), and our existing plant and facilities have been proven to support our current build rate, which is also the build rate we plan to operate at while building the proposed buses. Additionally, our management, manufacturing and quality programs have been proven over the years and are responsible for our excellent reputation in the industry. Our Delivery Plan is enclosed and is based on our proven and practical timing schedule, which includes a proposed delivery of about 5 buses per week to suit your preferred acceptance and commissioning rate. Our proposed delivery schedule is submitted in the appropriate section of this proposal. Subsequent builds will be achieved in less than current industry lead time; and noteworthy at this time, is our unblemished record of on-time deliveries, ensuring that these commitments will and can be met. Our Support Structure and Support Plan includes competent and experienced field service technicians (most are ASE or MACS certified), customized in-class and video training programs supplemented with appropriate service and parts manuals, a toll-free over-the-phone troubleshooting system and appropriate in-house and contracted engineering support and test capabilities. We also have a fully staffed Parts Division, with extensive inventory stocks and no- charge 2nd day air delivery of parts orders (under 150 lbs. each). Our Employee and Management Experience includes an extremely competent and stable workforce with an average of well over 12 years of GILLIG experience, and many more industry- experience years. Our Chief Executive Officer is the longest tenured Chief Executive of any bus manufacturing organization in North America (over 42 years) and our top fourteen senior executives have over 400 years of combined vehicle manufacturing experience (that’s 32 years each). GILLIG’s employees represent a superbly experienced and solidly entrenched team of people committed to satisfying customers by manufacturing quality buses. GILLIG MANAGEMENT PLAN Our Organization Stability is an industry landmark and ensures consistency in build and performance which ultimately results in customer satisfaction. A seasoned company with seasoned people is your best assurance of an outstanding procurement. FUTURE BUILD AND SUPPORT PLAN GILLIG ensures your future needs will be met by making you a partner in our business venture and thus including your requirements into our philosophy, commitments and plans. GILLIG’s philosophy is that we have 4 partners in our business venture -- our customers, our owners, our employees and our suppliers -- and it is management’s responsibility to ensure that each partners’ interests are addressed and appropriately served. Consequently, our customers are our partners and so our customers’ future interests must be included in our future plans. Therefore, GILLIG is committed to continuous improvement and continuous technological advancements, without compromising our goals of reliable, durable, and economical products or complete customer satisfaction. GILLIG’s 3-year and 20-year future plans include gradual and limited growth (to ensure quality and employee stability) along with practical research and new product development. GILLIG is committed to long-term relationships and to supporting our customer-partners future changing needs. Your future build requirements are incorporated into GILLIG’s future build plans which ensures timely delivery of future orders. GILLIG has followed the same procedure in the past with other transit agencies with multi-year contracts and has performed satisfactorily and on-time, on every procurement -- thus ensuring similar performance on future orders in this procurement. However, perhaps the strongest indicator of GILLIG’s ability to support your future vehicle needs in our uncompromising performance history of product improvement, financial strength, and customer satisfaction. We believe GILLIG is uniquely capable and qualified, to satisfy your current and future needs, and we believe our