DEPARTMENT: Transportation and Capital Improvements Department
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Mike Frisbie
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: City Wide
SUBJECT:
Contract Award: On-Call Professional Landscape Architectural Consulting Services
SUMMARY:
An ordinance authorizing the negotiation and execution of four (4) On-Call Professional Landscape Architectural Services Agreements with: Bender Wells Clark Design; Coltrane, Fernandez, Zavala Group (CFZ); GarzaBury, LLC; and Terra Design Group, Inc., each in the amount not to exceed $500,000.00, per year per firm, to provide as-needed professional landscape architectural consulting services for City-owned facilities and improvements, construction projects and planning projects located City-wide. Each with an initial one-year term with two, one-year extensions under the same terms and conditions at the City's discretion.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
Currently, the Transportation and Capital Improvement Department (TCI) contracts with three consultants to provide on-call landscape architectural consulting services for the City. The current consultants are RVK Consultants, Bender Wells Clark Design and Terra Design Group, Inc. These consultants are used on an as-needed basis on City projects, in connection with City capital improvements and transportation related projects. The contracts with these firms expire in August 2014. Given the large number of future construction projects that are planned, these agreements will continue to allow the City to utilize the services of consultants immediately at the City's discretion.
Procurement of Services
A Request for Qualifications (RFQ) was released in April 2014. This RFQ was advertised in the San Antonio Hart Beat, on the City's website and the Texas Electronic State Business Daily in April 2014. Responses were due on May 13, 2014. Seven (7) firms responded to the RFQ. A selection committee, consisting of a representative from TCI, Parks and Recreation a...
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