King County Metro invites vendors to build battery-electric bus charging facility

King County Metro has issued a call for companies to design and construct a charging facility for its growing fleet of battery-electric buses, continuing the agency’s commitment to sustainability. 

This project advances King County’s progress toward having a 100 percent zero-emission transit fleet by 2040 or sooner. 

The Interim Base Electrification project includes design and construction of electrical power infrastructure (in coordination with Seattle City Light), charging infrastructure, charge management systems and other elements required to support the charging operations for 120 battery-electric buses at King County’s Interim Base at South Campus located in Tukwila. The project is scheduled to be completed by 2024 and is part of the overall expansion of King County Metro’s South Campus. 

King County Metro, contingent on approval from the Washington State Department of Enterprise Service, will be issuing a Request for Qualification and a Request for Proposals using the Progressive Design Build procurement method. 

To encourage early teaming arrangements, King County Metro hosted town hall meetings for interested parties.