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STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS UNDERSTANDING OF NEED v. Construction Documents (PS&E) - After our fast - paced DO phase, with a true concept plan in hand, we'll jump right into construction documents. As outlined in the RFP, we will provide and submit 30%-60%-90%-100% PS&E. This task will include a Constructability Review with the City that will take place at the 90% submittal. We will perform similar page turns internally at 30% and 60%. Please refer to the itemized Scope of Services and deliverable list for more info on the construction document phase as noted with the project schedule. vi. Project Administration - 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 Barsin Bet Govargez PE 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 coordination with various public agencies for various aspects of the scope. This task will also include the following key responsibilities: • Project Construction Costs — You have a budget for these improvements and it will be fixed based on your total soft costs + an agreed -too percentage of contingency to include in the overall project construction estimate. This will be part of a key deliverable, the "Estimate of Construction Costs". We chose not to bring on a third party cost estimator for this project. In our experience this isn't a project type that is conducive to good estimating in that fashion. They are better suited for larger projects with sizable construction budgets that have an appreciable contingency amount. This is a small project with a relatively small budget and we can't afford any big misses on the construction estimate. Our design team will be generating our own estimates for each discipline. 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 standard issue items that will need be provided and installed such as ac paving, aggregate base, planting and irrigation, etc. For more specialty items, such as the re -built overlook deck, we'll look closely at previously built projects that include similar types of improvement and built construction. We'll also reach out to industry friends and get some direct estimates based what they're seeing for similar type construction. 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. When you push the project too fast, you can miss things because there isn't enough design effort and you're producing construction documents before you really understand all facets of the proposed construction. When you allow for too much time during each phase it's easy to relax and not sweat deadlines. We want to be active and engaged from beginning to end, pressure is a good thing, how else would we get diamonds? Teamwork - This will be a "team" effort and we are fortunate that several key members of our team are in-house. Our Civil Engineer and Landscape Architect will be the main project leads and sit across from each other in the office. Our Structural Engineer and Environmental Graphics are also in-house with only the Electrical Engineer, Linwood, being an outside subconsultant. And we've got a great relationship with Linwood, having completed several different project types with them over the years. 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. We will hold everyone on our team accountable for deliverables at each milestone of the project schedule. We'll keep a close eye on everyone, and if we find that a member of our team is falling behind on a particular phase of the project, we'll have a team meeting to discuss the issue and make a plan to get back on track. 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. 14 CITY OF SANTA ANA: REP NO: 20130 171" STREET TRIANGULAR PARK RESTORATION