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City of Sunny Isles Beach RFQ No. 18-08-01 | Consulting Engineering Services for Golden Shores Utility Undergrounding and Roadway Improvements (CCNA) CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS Preparation of construction documents begins once the preliminary design is agreed upon by the City and the utility evaluation and coordination is well underway. These plans are utilized to make permitting submittals and begin public outreach efforts. During the design process, CGA implements a Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) process, which consists of a peer review process where a design group not directly involved with the project will review the plan documents with a fresh perspective. Once the comments have been addressed, the plans are submitted to the firm’s Director of Quality Control and Quality Assurance for final sign off before being released. The multi-disciplined review process also consists of a constructability review by a member of the Construction Engineering and Inspection (CEI) department. This review specifically ensures that the plans make sense from a construction perspective and is intended to minimize potential problems in the field during construction. Once the client and regulatory agencies approve the final design, the construction documents will be finalized and submitted to the City for bidding. The staff assigned to these tasks are outlined and shown in the Organization Chart provided. CONSTRUCTION ADMINISTRATION AND PROJECT CLOSE-OUT The CGA team has experience assisting the local agency in all aspects of bidding including assistance during bidding, attending the pre-bid meeting, creating minutes, addenda preparation, responses to contractor RFI’s and review of the bid package for recommendation of the lowest responsive and responsible bidder. Additionally, CGA has construction administration (CA) services in house. CA Services including Engineering Services during Construction, will provide the necessary support to the City during construction from both the engineer of record as well as a construction engineer and inspector. CGA will undertake the required field inspections, contract administration, project certification and project coordination. We are committed to provide expert field inspection services such as contract negotiation, implementing quality control and assurance programs, contract document review, Shop drawing review, administration of contractor RFIs, observation of field activity to assure construction is completed in accordance with construction documents, payment request recommendation, change order administration, environmental and NPDES monitoring, field report and documentation, As-built record drawing review, Agency/permit closeout documentation and certification, and Contract compliance. The CGA team has the experience and dedication necessary to produce superior results; our emphasis on teamwork and quality control allows us to consistently exceed our clients’ expectations. We are ready and motivated to perform on this contract, and have a high level of availability. Innovative Concepts The keys to success of this project will be keeping the City's Project Manager, homeowners and UAO’s, more specifically FPL, informed with efficient communication, and experienced and responsive/accessible technical staff, and innovative, value-engineering design. Constant and efficient and effective communication and design will be needed and required to convert the overheard utilities to underground facilities. Preparing the construction plans with combined utility trenches in or close to the swale will minimize disruption to the resident’s daily life, and reconstruction of the pavement, concrete and landscape. Installing the utilities in the swale will also allow less disturbance to the resident’s during future maintenance and during construction. The CGA team will also analyze the option of trenchless methods to provide utilities of these services from the right-of-way to the resident’s home in order to minimize disturbance or conflicts with landscape and hardscape features on their property. Another method of providing less disturbance to the resident’s is by phasing the project area into zones or blocks. Areas are energized by blocks as the system is installed and properties are served underground. Once the underground “backbone” of the system is installed, close coordination with each property owner will be required to connect to the new system. This will include a new meter and any electrical work needed to be in compliance with code. Once the proper connections have been performed, FPL will de-energize and remove the overhead lines. These innovative concepts will enhance quality and control cost and schedule for all parties involved. 13