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Continuing Professional Consulting Services (CCNA) Request for Qualifications No. 20-07-01 Section D – Page | 4  Monthly Progress Meetings: Our Project Manager will meet with the City’s Project Manager on a monthly basis to review the project’s progress. A monthly progress report will be prepared.  Interactive Team Management Approach: Our project approach will keep the City thoroughly informed of the project. The team approach is the cornerstone of RJ Behar’s method of doing business.  In-House “Brainstorming Session:” Once we have obtained sufficient field data and have completed our field review, our project team will conduct a “brainstorming session,” where the key personnel gather to discuss the project and suggest an optimal solution for the project. The goal is to get the decision makers involved early.  Use of Interactive Approach with the City of Sunny Isles Beach to Accelerate Work: The goal of the interactive approach proposed by our team is to get the decision makers involved in the project from the very start. Major design decisions will be coordinated with City’s Staff through the City’s Project Manager. This timely involvement allows our team to avoid false starts and eliminates significant design changes at the submittals. An example of our weekly meeting spreadsheet is located to the right. This spreadsheet is used to track milestone dates, action items, and staffing requirements. These are inter-related and are monitored in order to ensure schedule control. BUDGET CONTROL RJ Behar is fully aware of the municipal financial constraints and has put several key steps in place to help with reducing costs. We utilize spreadsheets and the sophisticated Ajera Program from DELTEK computer software to keep track of project budgets. Regardless of the budget constraint of any project, RJ Behar has the commitment of completing every contracted project to the satisfaction of the client. We utilize management spreadsheets for control of each project. These are discussed in our weekly meetings. At these meetings, we go over the items that need to be completed; the budget and staff needed to complete each item. Our Company president presides over these meetings to ensure that each project and task are allocated the necessary resources. RJ Behar has an excellent track-record for delivering projects within budget. INNOVATIVE CONCEPTS RJ Behar is constantly using Value Engineering principles to innovate our projects. We have used new technologies, such as directional drilling, 3D Modeling, new stormwater BMPs, pervious pavements, solar powered systems, and other means. We will continue to use these principles for the City of Sunny Isles Beach’s projects. Value engineering is used to solve problems and identify and eliminate unwanted costs, while improving function and quality. The aim is to increase the value of projects, satisfying the project’s performance requirements at the lowest possible cost. In construction, this involves considering the availability of materials, construction methods, transportation issues, site limitations or restrictions, planning and organization, costs, profits and so on. Benefits that can be delivered include a reduction in life cycle costs, improvement in quality, reduction of environmental impacts, and so on. Value engineering should start at project inception where the benefits can be greatest, however the contractor may also have a significant contribution to make as long as the changes required to the contract do not affect the timescales, completion dates or incur additional costs that outweigh the savings they offer. Value engineering is an exercise that involves most of the project team as the project develops. It is about taking a wider view and looking at the selection of materials, plant, equipment and processes to see if a more cost-effective solution exists that will achieve the same project objectives. The key to this is remembering the relationship between cost