Title
Consider/Discuss/Act on a Resolution Approving Qualified Firms to Provide Professional Engineering Services for the Design of Major Roadway Improvements
Summary
MEETING DATE: February 5, 2013
DEPARTMENT: Development Services / Engineering
Purchasing
CONTACT: Matt Richardson, P.E., CIP Manager
Erin Boddie, CPPB, Contracts Administrator
RECOMMENDED CITY COUNCIL ACTION:
· Approval of Resolution.
ITEM SUMMARY:
· This Resolution approves a list of qualified firms to provide professional engineering services for the design of major roadway improvements.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
· The City of McKinney utilizes consultants to provide professional engineering services for the design of major roadway improvements.
· These services typically include engineering design services for new alignment, widening, and/or reconstruction of major roadways.
· Topographical and property survey, right-of-way and easement exhibits, environmental documentation, engineering plans and specifications, limited construction administration, and other related services may be included within the scope of individual projects.
· The City of McKinney issued a request for qualifications (RFQ 13-08) for professional engineering services for the design of major roadway improvements in November 2012.
· Twenty-six (26) professional engineering firms submitted statements of qualification in response to the RFQ.
· A committee of three staff members from the Engineering department reviewed and ranked the statements of qualifications based on the following criteria:
o Project Understanding & Approach
o Similar Experience
o Client Satisfaction
o Service Quality
o Submittal Quality
· Of the 26 firms that submitted statements of qualification, the following eight firms were determined to be the most qualified by the review committee
o CH2M Hill
o Civil Consulting Group, PLLC
o Freese and Nichols, Inc.
o H.W. Lochner, Inc.
o Halff Associates, Inc.
o Kennedy Consulting, Ltd.
o Kimley-Hor...
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