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City of Sunny Isles Beach | RFQ No. 20-07-01 | Continuing Professional Consulting Services (CCNA) Calvin, Giordano and Associate’s (CGA) has developed a broad environmental service base to fully understand and serve all the needs of our clients, and to fully address all natural resource considerations. Our diverse and in-depth work experience has provided us with a critical understanding of current environmental planning and permitting issues, and the historic impacts that have affected our natural resources. The integration of our highly technical field skills, in-depth knowledge of regulatory details and overall project requirements allows us to efficiently address project needs from inceptions to completion. CGA environmental staff stays current on regulatory updates and has also built long-lasting relationships with the regulatory agencies. Our environmental staff is skilled in addressing considerations in pristine natural resource settings to urbanized settings, both benthic and terrestrial, and the natural resource features unique to your coastal barrier island community. CGA has long provided municipal contract service in diverse settings and structures and knows how to maintain effective communication, to be a valuable asset to your City, and to efficiently and effectively implement your projects, your goals and your vision. It is our practice to work closely with your Staff. Upon being awarded a project by the City, CGA will meet with the City to determine and confirm the specific requirements of the project, the City’s timeline, coordinating partners, chain of contact, deliverables, and what supporting elements the City may be providing. Anticipated or potential project challenges will be discussed and identified at this meeting, such as external agency technical coordination in permitting that may require extended time frames for completion, or imperiled species surveys that can only occur in limited time windows. CGA will establish our project staffing needs, the appropriate sequencing of work including those tasks that can run concurrently, and a progress schedule. Ongoing, CGA will continually review the progress of the project to assure meeting the projected timeline and budget as approved by the City. The CGA project manager will maintain close communication with each team member and any coordinating partner(s) and will periodically update the City of the project progress. As scheduled, or requested by the City, the CGA project manager will provide deliverables in the format(s) specified by the City. Any adjustments due to circumstances such as changing conditions or change of the original scope occurring throughout the duration of the project will be reviewed with the City and adjusted as necessary upon City approval. All permitting should run concurrently and optimal sequencing for environmental permitting includes: • Identifying all required jurisdictional agencies and organizing and attending pre-application meetings with them, • Conducting the necessary site inspections to collect the field data required to document the existing natural resource conditions and potential for impacts to sensitive habitats in submerged lands, shorelines and adjacent uplands with the implementation of any proposed project, • Preparing the environmental documents, analyses, and other environmental submittal information for inclusion in the application submittal packages, • Coordinate with engineering and other team members to obtain all other required submittal documents and plans for inclusion in the submittal packages, completing applications forms, obtaining signatures and checks, and submitting application packages to the agencies, • Coordinate and attend meetings, post submittal, each with each of the permitting and commenting agency, and • Immediately responding to any request for additional information. Successful project implementation requires diligent oversight, documentation and follow-up; as well as ongoing clear, concise communication with the City and other project partners. CGA’s staff is experienced and highly skilled in the services required of by this RFQ and has adequate availability in their existing workload to undertake the City’s scope of work and maintain the high standards of deliverables the City and CGA are accustomed to. All of our projects adhere to a strict project management system, wherein we weekly ensure that milestones are met and risk management is averted, by addressing the anticipated staffing needs of each project and matching those needs with the most capable resources. CGA has been able to accommodate its workload, while keeping our mantra of personalized attention combined with responsive solutions for each and every client. Additionally, CGA has the experience and in-house resources to seamlessly cover almost any eventuality that is encountered. Project Approach and Understanding - Environmental Engineering 15