Title
Consider/Discuss/Act on a Resolution Approving Qualified Firms to Provide Professional Engineering Services for the Design of Utility Improvements
Summary
COUNCIL GOAL: Direction for Strategic Growth
MEETING DATE: October 20, 2015
DEPARTMENT: Development Services / Engineering
Purchasing
CONTACT: Gary Graham, PE, PTOE, CIP and Transportation Engineering Manager
Abri Sterlacci, 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 utility improvements.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
* The City of McKinney utilizes consultants to provide professional engineering services for the design of utility improvements.
* These services typically include engineering design services for ground storage tanks, elevated storage tanks, pump station improvements and lift station improvements.
* 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 15-36) for professional engineering services for the design of utility improvements in June of 2015.
* Forty-one (41) 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 Team
o Project Approach
o Similar Project Experience
o Client Satisfaction
o Submittal Quality
* Of the 41 firms that submitted statements of qualification, the following five firms were determined to be the most qualified by the review committee
o Birkhoff, Hendricks & Carter, LLP
o Brown & ...
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