FROM: James D. Herberg, General Manager
Originator: Kathy Millea, Director of Engineering
SUBJECT:
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SUPPLEMENTAL ENGINEERING SERVICES, CONTRACT NO. PSA2021-002
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GENERAL MANAGER'S RECOMMENDATION
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RECOMMENDATION: Recommend to the Board of Directors to:
Approve Professional Services Agreements to provide Supplemental Engineering Services, Contract No. PSA2021-002, for a three-year period commencing May 1, 2022, through April 30, 2025, with two one-year renewal options, for an amount not to exceed $29,700,000 per individual agreement with the following two firms:
* AECOM Technical Services, Inc.
* Jacobs Project Management Co.
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BACKGROUND
Orange County Sanitation District's (OC San's) Engineering Department includes 99 full time staff in a variety of engineering, inspection, administrative, and engineering support roles, plus 13 supervisors, four managers, and the Director of Engineering. The department manages the execution of the Capital Improvement Program (CIP), as well as many of the more complex repair projects. Using its project controls staff and program management tools, the Engineering Department forecasts staffing levels over the next 20 years to deliver the program.
To ensure that projects are completed on time and properly controlled, OC San has been utilizing supplemental engineering services agreements. The benefits of this approach, as opposed to hiring full-time staff or limited-term employees, include the ability to adjust staffing levels for a variety of disciplines from month-to-month and year-to-year, access to certain engineering disciplines, specialists, and technical experts needed only intermittently, and rapid mobilization of highly skilled technical resources for third party reviews such as value engineering and constructability reviews.
RELEVANT STANDARDS
* Ensure the public's money is wisely spent
* Sustain 1, 5, 20-year planning horizons
* California Government Code ?4526: Select the "...
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