Title
Consider/Discuss/Act on a Resolution Approving Qualified Firms to Provide Professional Landscape Architectural Services for Design of Various Parks, Recreation, and Open Space and/or Public Right of Way Improvements
Summary
MEETING DATE: April 15, 2014
DEPARTMENT: Engineering/Purchasing
CONTACT: Tony Nielsen, Parks Development Superintendent
Erin Boddie, CPPB, Contract Administrator
RECOMMENDED CITY COUNCIL ACTION:
* Approval of resolution.
ITEM SUMMARY:
* This Resolution approves a list of qualified firms to provide professional landscape architectural services for the design of various small parks and public right of way improvements with total design budgets of less than $50,000.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
* The City of McKinney utilizes consultants to provide professional landscape architectural services for the design of parks and/or public right of way improvements.
* The City of McKinney issued a request for qualifications (14-13RFQ) for professional landscape architectural services in January 2014.
* Fifteen (15) professional landscape architect firms submitted statements of qualification in response to the RFQ.
* A committee of six staff members from the PROS and Engineering departments reviewed and ranked the statements of qualification.
* Of the 15 firms that submitted statements of qualification, the following four firms were determined to be the most qualified by the review committee:
o David C. Baldwin, Inc.
o la terra studio, inc.
o Newman, Jackson, Bieberstein, Inc.
o Teague Nall and Perkins, Inc.
* When professional landscape architectural services are required for a specific project, staff members from the PROS and Engineering department will interview one or more firms from this list to determine the most qualified firm for that specific project.
* A fee proposal will be negotiated with the most qualified firm in accordance with the professional services procedures provided by the app...
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