Title
Consider and take action on a resolution amending Resolution 2020-117 (Shortlist of Professional Consultants) to add several qualified consultants (Director of Engineering)
Background:
Approval of this resolution will amend the list of firms selected to provide most professional services to support the City’s Capital Improvement Program (CIP).
In September 2020, Council approved Resolution 2020-117 that formalized a list of firms that allow City Staff to work with related to the City’s Capital Improvement Program (CIP). After this item passed in September, Staff began notifying applicants on whether they were shortlisted or not. Unfortunately, while working through this list for notifications, it was discovered that 5 summaries of qualifications (SOQs) had not been included with the other SOQs sent out to the various departments for review. These 5 SOQs are broken out as follows:
1. Jones-Carter Engineering SOQ for Discipline F (Water & Wastewater Infrastructure Engineering Design)
2. Jones-Carter Engineering SOQ for Discipline G (Paving & Drainage Infrastructure Engineering Design)
3. Jones-Carter Engineering SOQ for Discipline H (Stormwater Infrastructure Engineering Design)
4. Kleinfelder, Inc. SOQ for Discipline J (Environmental Assessment Services)
5. Lockwood, Andrews, & Newnam SOQ for Discipline F (Water & Wastewater Infrastructure Engineering Design)
Upon realizing that these SOQs were not reviewed, Staff sent a copy of each SOQ out to the original reviewers for each of the noted Disciplines and Christopher Sims contacted the companies involved to explain what had happened and what the City’s next steps would be to correct the oversight.
The same evaluation criteria and maximum attainable points was used for each of these reviewed SOQs. That is as follows: Qualifications (25 points); experience (25 points); available resources (10 points); project methodology and approach (15 points); quality control and quality assurance (10 points); geog...
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