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City of Sunny Isles Beach | RFQ No. 20-07-01 | Continuing Professional Consulting Services (CCNA) Landscape Inspection (If needed): Before construction site inspection to see if any trees / palms will be impacted and any root pruning must be done. Meeting with County Landscape Inspector on expectations. During construction, take soil samples, nursery visit with contractor to tag plant material, Florida Grade #1, or better to ensure minimum requirements met. Ensure shop drawing submittal of fertilizer, staking/ guying, soil, pre-emergent herbicide, mulch and sod. Document Control and Warranty: Our personnel will strive to maintain legible, complete, properly indexed/archived, and retrievable documents. We are committed to utilize the latest software, our staff will also work with your in-house staff to ensure that all warranty information is collected; tracked and periodic inspections conducted to ensure the County received the full value of these improvements. The incorporation of the value added specification stipulates the inspection frequency for each incorporated element and we will ensure that all relevant information is entered into the County’s database system. Our team will coordinate all the warranty requests between the County and the contractor, we will perform the periodic inspections during the life of our contract to determine the corrective action for each deficiency, and we will notify the contractor in writing of the items covered by the warranty that require corrections. Resident Compliance Support (RCS): We will monitor and maintain files to comply with the Federal and State rules and regulations concerning the compliance program. We will maintain our constant lines of communications with the County or FDOT resident compliance manager to ensure the expedited flow of information between the team, County, and FDOT. We will conduct a pre EEO/OJT/DBE meeting with contractor and County or FDOT representative to revive the compliance requirements listed in the contract. Including Davis Bacon Act, payroll format, classification and pay information, interviews with the contractor’s staff to verify that the information provided in the payrolls are accurate. Non- compliance letters will be issued as needed for any compliance violation. Our RCS will monitor the on- the-job training (OJT) program for compliance with the EEO handbook and contract requirements. During Substantial Completion Walk-through: 30 Days prior to completion of project, we will meet with Contractor, County Project Manager and our staff and walk entire site to make note of deficiency’s. We will then generate a punch list excel sheet. As each item is completed and/or fixed, our inspector will date and comment on the completion of the item. After all items are complete and confirmed by our inspection staff prior to last day of contract, we will have a final walk-through with the County Project Manager, CEI staff (PA, SPE, inspection staff), FPL (and/or other designated utility company), City (if needed) and Contractor. Quality Assurance (QA): CGA will incorporate our QA Checklist with the current Final Estimate Submittal checklist Performs thorough review and oversight of the Quality Control (QC) density log book by verification personnel to minimize errors and potential delay to the final material certification. • Perform bi-weekly reviews of material testing results to ensure resolution of open samples, failing test results and missing QC and/or verification information. • Generate and submit an accurate and timely Final Offer Letter within 30 days of Final Acceptance. • Maintain current and accurate records of field changes and plan revisions for the preparation of the as-built plans. • Ensure that Maintenance of Traffic Plans are in accordance with the MUTCD and that one lane of through traffic is maintained throughout the whole project limits. • Continue to keep the residents, hospital, school and businesses of the immediate area apprised of all construction phasing throughout project duration. 18