The El Rancho Unified School District ("District") is requesting proposals from experienced firms,
partnerships, corporations, associations, persons or professional organizations ("Consultants") to provide
professional services as the Labor Compliance Consultant to administer the District's Community Work
Force Agreement. Oral, telegraphic, facsimile, telephone or email RFQ/P Packets will not be accepted. RFQ/P Packets received
after this date and time will not be accepted and returned unopened. The District reserves the right to waive
any informalities or irregularities in the RFQ/P Packets. The District also reserves the right to reject any and
all RFQ/P Packets and to negotiate contract terms with one or more Respondents.
All questions regarding this RFQ/P shall be emailed to Jeff Fitchett, Purchasing Director, at
jfitchett@erusd.org no later than 3:00 pm, May 18, 2023.
COMMUNITY WORKFORCE AGREEMENT The Board of Education approved a Project Labor Agreement
between the District and signatory contractors and subcontractors, the Building and Construction Trades
Council and its affiliated Local Union Signatories for the Redevelopment of the El Rancho High School and
other bond funded measures. Please refer to Exhibit A "Community Workforce Agreement" for the entire
text and agreement.
Tentative Construction Schedule:
July 2023 - Construction Starts
August 2024 - Construction Ends GENERAL STATEMENT OF WORK:
The selected consultant ("Consultant") will report to the District through its Construction Manager, Ledesma
& Meyer Construction Management ("L&M") for guidance and direction, and render assistance to the District
and L&M by monitoring compliance with the Project Labor Agreement ("PLA"). The Consultant will
coordinate the PLA for the program. The Consultant shall focus on three core responsibilities: (1) managing
labor relations; (2) coordinating the PLA's innovative workforce development and employment programs;
and (3) monitoring and reporting on the efficacy of the PLA.
The Coordinator shall maintain and account for the hours devoted to the administration of the PLA,
must provide a Weekly Activity Report which shall be submitted to the District and L&M, and assist the
District and L&M in preparing a semiannual report to the District's Governing Board on the status of the
PLA.
The core responsibility in this area will be to provide professional PLA administration services
regarding the management of labor relations, as follows:
1. Provide support to the District as requested by the District and/or L&M toadminister the PLA
and to assist with PLA contract interpretations and notices.
2. Assist the District in establishing policies and procedures for the PLA.
3. Serve as the principal liaison on behalf of the District to the Building Trades Council and its
affiliated unions.
4. Ensure that the terms of the PLA are consistently applied.
5. Ensure the immediate resolution of all labor disputes and grievances through coordination
with the Building Trades Council and appropriate grievance and arbitration procedures in
order to ensure that the rehabilitation and construction work is completed on time.
6. Manage all disputes and grievances, including those during pre-job meetings, through Joint
Administrative Committees, or formal grievance resolution procedures.
7. Coordinate, schedule, and attend meetings between the District and the signatory unions,
including pre-construction conferences to discuss craft jurisdictions and the dispatch of
workers.
8. Coordinate with contractors and subcontractors to facilitate the timely payment to
appropriate trust funds as required under the Letter of Assent (LOA) and work with unions
and contractors to expeditiously resolve all disputes regarding payments to trust funds.
9. Liaise with the District and contractors as necessary regarding compliance with the terms of
the PLA.
10. Advise the District to withhold payments as necessary.
11. Represent the District at all pre-construction meetings for all PLA projects in order to ensure
that contractors, subcontractors, the Building Trades and their affiliated unions understand
the covered project work.
12. Attend meetings with District as needed to provide updates on project work, including the
compliance with PLA hiring requirements, trust fund payments, and the status of any labor
issues; schedule, chair and record minutes of all meetings scheduled to address issues related
to the PLA hiring objectives.
13. Visit District construction sites to monitor compliance of PLA by both contractors and unions, maintain files and electronic databases related to the PLA.
14. Prepare periodic status updates on the Agreement with regard to the PLA projects, including
a description of any obstacles or barriers faced and lessons learned throughout the process
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