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Approach/Methodology(cont'd) ® Our experience with FDEP, USACOE, Water Management Districts, FFWCC, FDOT and many other agencies enable us to provide reasonable assurance so that we can accomplish the permitting work in reasonable time. As you will notice throughout this submittal, we have extensive permitting experience. We offer realistic permitting time frames for all work. We typically start the technical and bid drawings once we have submitted the permitting and during the Request for Additional Information process. This enables us to save time and keep the project on schedule, as needed. Once the permits are secured and we have completed the 30% and 60% design, we finalize by presenting the City a 90% plan review. A key to all successful design is reviewing the plans for constructability. We ensure that there are not constraints on the project that may prevent construction equipment from working in the areas of interest. We look for above and below-ground utilities, trees, structures and anything else that may affect construction. Our experience in construction management will be of great value to the City on any project. Once the permitting and design are approved, we move into the bidding phase. Project Bidding and Construction Management: DMC can either assist with or completely prepare the City's bid packages, to include the technical specifications, plans, permit requirements and all City contractual obligations for the contractor. DMC will assist with any advertising, scheduling of due dates and pre-bid meetings as well as bid reviews and recommendations. DMC will assist in answering any contractor questions at the pre-bid meeting and provide addendums, as needed. Once the contractor has been selected, we ensure that all schedules, safety plans and permit compliance is received and is understood by the contractor. We require a list of all staff and key personnel, including emergency contacts. We also ensure Sunshine State One Call of Florida is contacted to coordinate all utilities (e.g., FPL, cable, Bell South, etc.). We go over all pay requests and requirements at a pre-construction meeting. DMC staff will provide daily inspections and reporting required by the City, funding agencies and the regulatory agencies for compliance. DMC has vast experience in this area. Our goal as your engineer is to minimize your involvement in day to day field work. We keep you posted on any field related issues where immediate action needs to be taken. All such work is documented so there is always a paper trail! Project Close-out: Projects are generally not complete until a final field inspection is conducted with the contractor to ensure all project work has been done as required. All issues are addressed and damage is repaired. Most importantly, an as-built certification is provided and verified to ensure the work was done to scope and satisfaction of the client. Once all of this is completed and payments, liens and bonding released, it is important to ensure that the funding agency criteria is met for final project close-out. We realize that it takes many steps to complete a project successfully and DMC has the experience to guide our clients along the way. Our goal is to manage your project for you so that the City's Project Manager has to invest minimal time on any project. Go ahead and call any of our clients; you won't be disappointed! The DMC team will employ the above steps in the overall planning, design development and construction estimation to complete your project. In all of this, quality control and assurance (QA/QC) begins when we start our first communication on a project and ends at our final close out. QA/QC is both internal to DMC and external to our sub-consultants. Sub-consultants are required to hold the same standards we do; it is our contractual obligation. We continue to learn and gain new insight on ways a project is viewed and which aspects of a project are important to clients and to the public that we serve. May 4, 2012 \ Page2of3