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The K&S Team recognizes that in addition to our strong credentials, our resources and ability to respond quickly and efficiently are imperative to guarantee successful performance. This project requires a management plan designed to specifically address the staffing,monitoring,planning,and communications challenges that our experience indicates are common with this type of contract. It also calls for a management plan that deals with the need for well-documented and understandable procedures so staff can be efficiently managed. Specifically,our management plan provides: • An efficient management system,with clearly defined roles and responsibilities for scope,schedule and budget; • A Contract Manager as the primary point-of-contact for the City; • Quick-turnaround capability,as well as,long-term program and personnel continuity; 4) • Depth of staff which allows the team to timely respond to multiple assignments simultaneously,if necessary; • Compliance with individual task schedules and budgets; • Flexibility to respond to changes in scope and direction;and • Quality assurance and quality control throughout all phases of a project. K&S is a firm dedicated to the timely and cost-efficient delivery of services. In fact, in 2007,when the FDOT released its annual summary of design overruns (time and money),K&S ranked among the best of the over two hundred firms surveyed. In the six-year period studied, K&S designed and surveyed twelve projects with a construction value in excess of $120 million dollars. No other firm selected by FDOT in that six-year period completed this volume of work,and maintained such low overruns in cost and time. At Keith and Schnars,we attribute this success to our personnel and project management. Additionally, numerous members of the team proposed for this contract have either worked directly for a governmental agency or have performed duties as an extension of a governmental agency for many years. K&S believes our clients,our profession,and our projects deserve the highest quality product that can be produced. Therefore,there is an established quality control plan that is implemented on all our projects. Our Quality Control Plan is based on the philosophy that • Quality is achieved by proper planning,coordination,supervision,and the appropriate use of skilled personnel; • Quality is controlled through checking,reviewing and monitoring of work activities by individuals outside of the Team; • Quality is verified by having a senior manager performing QA/QC functions;and • Quality is assured through independent reviews by qualified staff through each stage of project development. STAFFING HIGHLIGHTS • • Our corporate structure and chain of command is similar to the City's in that we maintain executive level staff,which serve as a backstop and point of responsibility and accountability for the management of projects. We emphasize accountability for budget and schedule in our projects and we encourage open informal and formal communication as a tool to collectively work to meet the objective, budget, and schedule of the project. With this management structure, it is our belief that a partnership with City staff and our carefully selected staff is crucial to a successful outcome for this contract. Therefore, given our successful project management track record for previous contracts with the City,the selected management team for this contract that satisfies these objectives will continue to be our Assistant Director ofTraffic Engineering(Eric Penfield,P.E.) and Director of Transportation Planning (John Krane,RE.). Eric Penfield, P.E. John Krane,P.E. Asstistant Director ofTraffic Engineering Director ofTransportation Planning 6500 North Andrews Avenue 6500 North Andrews Avenue Fort Lauderdale,FL 33309 Fort Lauderdale,FL 33309 Phone:(954) 776-1616 Phone:(954) 776-1616 Fax:(954) 771-7690 Fax:(954) 771-7690 Cell Phone: (561) 504-9137 Cell Phone: (954) 649-3061 • a Eric Penfield, P.E., has been specifically selected to lead this Team. He has over 15 years of experience providing municipal traffic engineering services for numerous cities in South Florida,including more than 5 years for the City of Sunny Isles Beach. His services have included performing traffic engineering reviews of site plans;traffic calming studies; transportation demand management analyses;corridor studies;parking demand and supply studies for projects ranging in size from a local shopping center to five downtown square blocks;traffic safety studies;traffic concurrency study reviews; signal warrant and stop-sign control studies;as well as providing expert witness testimony during quasi-judicial hearings on behalf of many municipalities. As Mr.Penfield has previously provided transportation engineering consulting services to the City,he has extensive knowledge of the issues faced by the City of Sunny Isles Beach. 11 NORTH ANDREWS• tdRititiA46 Car 15'‘gh 6c 1kRIDA133309 •af HONE f(,954) 7A76t1616 FAX (954: 7A 7 .0,fi ly