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Proven solutions <br />Responsive and dependable performance <br />City of Sunny Isles Beach RFQ No. 20-07-01: Continuing Professional Consulting Services (CCNA) <br />D-4 <br />Knowledge Maximizes Cost Efficiencies <br />An aggressive plan for community involvement and outreach <br />during the early phases of design planning will be crucial to <br />avoiding delays in project implementation. Because of the <br />diverse conditions that may exist along alignment corridors— <br />sensitive habitat, residential developments, commercial <br />properties, and planned development areas—it is likely that <br />some groups will have concerns about the project and about <br />a specific alignment. The CES Team will work with the City <br />to provide the key information needed to convey the scope, <br />timing and benefits of the work to the community to these <br />stakeholders. <br />Optimizing Costs <br />Upon project commencement, the CES Team will conduct <br />an initial screening to optimize pipeline alignments and/or <br />facility locations (pump stations, catch basins, curb inlets, <br />and conflict structures) based on a structured, numerical <br />evaluation technique that we have successfully used on <br />previous projects, enabling comparisons of alternatives <br />with respect to a wide range of technical and non-technical <br />issues. This technique will require input from the City, as <br />well as our environmental consultant. In a collaborative <br />effort, each of the various evaluation categories (e.g., <br />construction costs, constructability, environmental impacts, <br />schedule, operational flexibility, operational reliability, etc.) <br />will be assigned a value signifying its relative importance <br />(i.e., weight); the CES Team will then compare alternative <br />alignments with respect to each category to define a ranking. <br />For each category and for each alternative, the product of the <br />weight and the ranking will establish a score, and the sum of <br />the scores for each alternative will be used to establish the <br />preferred alignment alternative <br />Meeting the Project Schedules <br />Through your Capital Improvement Plan, the City has <br />established targeted project execution to occur expeditiously <br />to meetthe demands of needed utility distribution, collection, <br />and pumping system improvements, along with the <br />availability of funds. The CES Design Team will develop and <br />execute project schedules for design services to allow for <br />construction completion schedules that match the desired <br />City timeframe. <br />Our Team’s core personnel, including our Project Managers, <br />Design Manager and support staff, along with our specialty subconsultants, are available immediately and will be mobilized <br />upon the Notice to Proceed. <br />Our approach to the project schedule is to break the work into multiple phases/contracts, expediting specific activities that <br />enhance the overall schedule. For example, if permitting and design activities can be completed early for one of the project <br />phases, a separate construction package can be issued to get a head start on that work. Multiple contract packages can also <br />have local economic benefits, allowing smaller local and specialty contractors to participate in the program. <br />We also foresee a potential solution to <br />construction contract development by <br />bundling one or more project elements/ <br />segments into one contract to maximize <br />bidding results for the City, to focus <br />construction activities in one area, and <br />to mitigate local impacts by reducing <br />the overall construction schedule of <br />improvements with concurrent construction.