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A. STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS UNDERSTANDING OF NEED Project Coordination --As prime consultant, an on -going role for us will be Project Management and Project Administration as outlined in the RFP. Our design team will be led by Michael Ledbetter and he will be Main Point of Contact with the City. This vital task will include managing all aspects of the project, issuing progress reports to the City keeping you informed our progress on a regular basis, internal coordination and quality control with rest of design team, and outside coordination with others where needed. This task will also include the following key responsibilities: • Project Construction Costs — You have a budget for this project that is funded through the Park Acquisition and Development Funds for District 2. We understand the challenge of making this project fit within that budget and getting the most out of every dollar earmarked for this irrigation upgrade. Our design team will be generating our own estimates for this work. Using the City's approved format, we'll generate a list of construction line items and include quantities, unit costs, and totals for all parts of the construction scope. We'll be using our years of experience building things along with other reference data to generate our unit costs for each item. Common reference data includes recent project construction and actual construction costs we're seeing as our projects get completed. Given everything that's going on in the world, this is a great time to be building something. We're see good pricing coming in on all of our public sector work mostly with schools and universities. We also use 3rd Party reference material such as the "Saylor 2020" for current construction costs. This gives us confidence to provide you with good unit costs for all the items that will need be provided and installed as part of this renovation. • Project Schedule — We feel the best way to ensure quality is to expeditiously complete the project on a comprehensive, aggressive timeline that isn't rushing but also isn't allowing too much lag time between deadlines. We think there is an opportunity to condense the proposed submittal schedule of 30%,60%,90%,100%. This is an irrigation renovation project and once we get through the initial design (pressure calculations, mainline routing, and head layout, irrigation controller location and conduit routing) there really isn't much to be gained with that many increment submittals. We would suggest starting with a 50% design submittal package and then going to 90% and 100%. This can get you to groundbreaking faster, it also means we can keep our fee as low as possible because we're eliminating the additional admin paperwork and processing that would be added to our scope with a (4th) submittal package. • Design Team Management — We have a small, focused team on this project. The majority of the work will be performed by our Landscape Architect with our one subconsultant , Linwood Engineering, providing electrical engineering for the irrigation controller power and install. Our approach to meeting your expectations includes staying in constant communication with the City and each member of our design team. We take it upon ourselves to respond as quickly as we can to your phone calls and emails, which typically is same day if not within an hour or two. Issues typically develop because of a lack of communication and we create an open line of discussion with the City and all our team members to ensure that everyone is talking, more importantly that everyone is heard. • Quality Control — Like any design firm we understand that we're only as good our projects, and those are only as good our drawings. During the design and construction document phase we will have our own internal team schedule for each discipline. They will be required to provide us their drawings ahead of any city submittal so that our in-house design team can review and provide redline comment back prior to said submittal. In addition, our internal QAQC team will scan the drawing sets at each milestone submittal for errors, omissions, coordination issues, etc. Our expertise in irrigation and electrical design, along with detailing and construction processes will help us anticipate issues that could be discovered in the field so we can update the drawings to reflect all the scope required by the contractor. i CITY OF SANTA ANA: RFP NO: 20-128 CABRILLO PARK IRRIGATION RESTORATION