ERIC DEMPSEY ARCHITECT, LLC Bid Document (20)

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U N D E R S TA N D I N G T H E C I T Y Understanding the City of Sunny Isles Beach Sunny Isles Beach is not a generic municipal client. It is a two-and-a-half-square-mile barrier island in northeast Miami-Dade County, bounded by the Atlantic on the east and the Intracoastal on the west, with a single arterial spine running its length. Almost every capital project the City undertakes is shaped by that geometry: constrained sites, salt and storm exposure, a road it does not own, and neighbours within a few hundred feet of the work. The notes below describe how we expect task orders under this contract to behave — and why our recent work is a direct fit. A B A RRI ER ISL AND FI RS T, A CITY S ECON D Design here begins with water. FEMA flood elevations, freeboard, and the Florida Building Code’s High-Velocity Hurricane Zone provisions govern the ground plane before any programme is set; king tides, salt-laden air, and wind- borne debris govern the assemblies above it. Sea-turtle-conscious exterior lighting and dune protection apply to anything east of Collins. This is precisely the ground we are working on now at the Golden Beach Wellness Center — a civic building seven miles up A1A on the same barrier island, on a compact coastal site with the same flood-elevation and resilience constraints. THE COLLI NS AV ENUE COR RIDO R Collins Avenue is State Road A1A, which places design, permitting, and lane closures within FDOT District 6 jurisdiction alongside the City’s own Public Works permits. The City’s ongoing Collins and Golden Shores undergrounding work, its intersection-safety and off-Collins bicycle initiatives, and its Transportation Master Plan all point the same direction: work in this corridor is as much about maintenance of traffic, pedestrian continuity, and neighbour notification as it is about the finished product. We plan MOT and phasing as a design deliverable, not a contractor afterthought. PE RMI T TING I S A MU LT I-AGENCY PATH The RFQ is explicit that the consultant obtains all approvals. On this island that routinely means the City Building Department and Public Works, Miami-Dade RER/DERM, Miami-Dade Water & Sewer, FDOT District 6 for anything touching A1A, and FDEP or the Army Corps for coastal, seawall, and mangrove work. We sequence these in parallel rather than in series, hold float ahead of the reviews we do not control, and maintain a live permit-tracking log per agency — the approach set out under Scheduling. S MALL, FAST TASK OR DER S — NOT MEG A PROJE CTS This contract caps construction value at $7.5 million and study fees at $500,000, with a $325 hourly ceiling and assignments issued at the City’s discretion or by rotation. That describes a steady stream of modest, quick-turn work: park buildings, facility renovations, adaptive reuse, feasibility studies, plan review, and Commission presentations. It is the work a two-principal firm does well and a large multidisciplinary firm often staffs with its most junior people. Every task order here is led personally by the Principal. W HAT T HE CIT Y’S P UB LISHE D CAP ITAL I M PROVE ME NT PROGRAM TE L L S US Intracoastal Sports Park 158 St & Collins — courts plus a small restroom, storage and staff building. Directly comparable in type and scale to our current civic work. Government Center Annex 18050 Collins — a former restaurant converted to Building Department offices with a café tenancy. Commercial-to-civic adaptive reuse is core Dempsey Design work. Bella Vista Bay Park Restrooms, concession, decking, seawall and mangrove mitigation — waterfront civic amenity requiring DERM and Corps coordination. Le Richelieu / Pelican Park 18126 Atlantic Blvd — a cleared parcel planned as green space extending Pelican Community Park. Site and open-space planning at neighborhood scale. Drawn from the City’s published Active Capital Projects list and Capital Improvement Program (sibfl.gov). The CIP is a rolling five-year program updated annually with the budget; the projects above illustrate the type and scale of architectural work we are positioned to support, not a claim of involvement. Collins Avenue (SR A1A) — the corridor through which most City capital work passes. The barrier island between the Atlantic and the Intracoastal — the constraint behind every site. Golden Beach Wellness Center — coastal civic work on the same barrier island, seven miles north. Responds to RFQ # 26-07-01, Section 5, Item 2 — Qualifications (understanding of the issues and tasks of the project at hand). DEMPSEY DESIGN UNDERSTANDING THE CIT Y · R FQ # 26-07-01 PAGE 2 5 OF 113←→↑QUALIFICATIONS