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11 CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL ARCHITECTURAL & ENGINEERING CONSULTING SERVICES (CCNA) RFQ 26-07-01-0-2026C Proposer’s Qualifications & Relevant Experience 3.1 Why ECF Is Well Suited to Sunny Isles Beach Sunny Isles Beach does not need a generic electrical consultant. It needs an electrical team that understands the operating realities of a compact barrier-island city where high-rise residential buildings, public parks, municipal facilities, parking structures, utility corridors, and heavily traveled rights-of-way occupy the same limited footprint. Electrical work must be planned around residents, visitors, public safety operations, seasonal traffic, constrained staging, and the City’s expectation that facilities remain in service. The coastal environment changes the design standard. Salt air accelerates deterioration of enclosures, fasteners, raceways, disconnects, lighting equipment, and exposed connections. Hurricane conditions require careful equipment anchorage, surge protection, grounding, emergency power planning, and post- storm access. Flood and king-tide exposure affect equipment elevations and site selection. FPL coordination can control a project schedule when work involves service upgrades, transformer relocations, underground conversion, metering, or planned outages. ECF addresses these conditions at the beginning of a task order rather than treating them as late design comments. The City’s current and recent capital programs make the likely electrical assignments clear. Sunny Isles Beach has programmed street-lighting studies and replacements, public EV charging, citywide security technology, parking-garage solar generation, utility undergrounding, FPL transformer relocation, generator work, pump-station upgrades, facility renovations, and park and streetscape improvements. These are practical municipal projects that require quick scoping, accurate field verification, disciplined utility coordination, and construction documents that can be bid and built without avoidable interpretation in the field. Below is the Project Team that will provide these services on the City’s projects: