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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
<br />Water Resources Construction Management and Inspection Services
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<br />three to four weeks prior to completion to consider improvements or
<br />workarounds before construction is initiated and prevent the contractor
<br />from building themselves into a corner. This process has resulted in
<br />significant savings to agencies and a reduction of negative impacts to
<br />the public, local businesses, and the community.
<br />COST ESTIMATING. Cost and time are the main drivers of any project.
<br />At Michael Baker, our professional estimators understand how to build
<br />projects. This knowledge is invaluable in identifying and predicting
<br />costs throughout the project. By managing and monitoring project
<br />costs from day one, we allow you to better plan, program, acquire, and
<br />manage your budget, while adding real value to your project. Michael
<br />Baker's breadth of resources, including affiliations with contractors
<br />and contractor associations, helps us to better provide estimating
<br />services at any stage of the design and construction process. We utilize
<br />proven, documented, unit price databases, both internal and published.
<br />Escalation is managed through the use of multiple historical indices,
<br />monitoring current material and labor trends, and tracking industry
<br />market indicators. We bring these resources to related services such
<br />as life cycle costing, value engineering, and analysis of changes and
<br />claims, as well.
<br />SCHEDULING. Michael Baker's scheduling resources provide schedule
<br />development, updating, and monitoring in project design development,
<br />as well as helping our clients to accurately predict construction contract
<br />durations. With our scheduling software and expertise, a Critical Path
<br />Method (CPM) construction schedule can be developed at any time
<br />from project concept through final design. This tool allows us to keep the
<br />client informed on progress and the schedule effects of a client change
<br />consideration before a decision must be made.
<br />Claims avoidance and scheduling are often intertwined and must be
<br />viewed together to minimize claims exposure. We will prepare an
<br />analysis to minimize the City's exposure by being proactive at the onset
<br />of delay claims and identify mitigation measures to minimize liability to
<br />the City by any claims by the Contractor.
<br />A solid baseline schedule and proactive planning with the contractor
<br />is required to minimize construction duration. We have successfully
<br />managed several similar projects by reviewing the contractor's
<br />submitted schedule, monitoring the actual progress, and then using the
<br />baseline and updated progress schedules as management tools. Our
<br />experienced team is able to anticipate potential problems before they
<br />occur, allowing us to resolve contributing issues before they become
<br />problems that impact the project schedule.
<br />Furthermore, close coordination and monitoring of various activities,
<br />such as utility relocations/protection and limiting disruption and
<br />impacts to the public, can also reduce the construction duration. Night
<br />work, detours, and traffic switches will be well coordinated with local
<br />community, businesses, adjacent cities, emergency services, and City
<br />maintenance crews. Reasonable construction durations will be required,
<br />and we will monitor the contractor's progress to complete specific
<br />activities.
<br />We will utilize the contractor's baseline schedule to evaluate the monthly
<br />progress schedule and to develop a separate utility schedule. The
<br />first schedule submittal by the contractor will be scrutinized to confirm
<br />the logic, verify all activities are included, and evaluate float and other
<br />elements for conformance with the contract CPM specifications. This
<br />approved baseline schedule then becomes the basis used to determine
<br />the contractor's adherence to the project schedule. We will work with
<br />City staff to coordinate the work and prevent contractor interface
<br />conflicts and delays. In the event of delays to the project critical path,
<br />we will prepare Time Impact Analyses, keeping in view concurrent and
<br />non -concurrent delays with regards to the Contractor caused delays
<br />as well. The contract specification will have compensable and non-
<br />compensable delays. We will document project progress of actual work
<br />performed by the Contractor on an as -built schedule which will serve
<br />as a factual record of project progress. We will hold regular meetings at
<br />intervals within the project limits with the City, the contractor, and various
<br />utility agencies to coordinate construction activities, communicate project
<br />progress, and facilitate better communication and cooperation between
<br />all stakeholders. Our scheduling services minimize costs, delays, and
<br />claims; and lead to successful on -time project completion.
<br />DISPUTE RESOLUTION. The best method of dispute resolution
<br />will always be avoidance. However, the need to mitigate claims and
<br />resolve disputes is the reality of many construction projects today. We
<br />are experts in forensic project recreation of activities as they occurred
<br />due to our best management practices we have in place to document
<br />everything on the project from before start of construction to after project
<br />completion. Michael Baker's experience in Dispute Resolution qualifies
<br />us to protect your interests before, during, and after the construction
<br />process. Our professionals offer the support that you need if involved
<br />in a claim or dispute. If necessary, Michael Baker can assist the client's
<br />INTERNATIONAL
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<br />Water Resources RFP No. 19-118
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