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COVER LETTER AND EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CITY OF SUNNY ISLES BEACH RFQ NO 20-07-01 SECTION C – COVER LETTER AND EXECUTIVE SUMMARY COASTAL PROTECTION ENGINEERING LLC | PAGE 1 SECTION C – COVER LETTER AND EXECUTIVE SUMMARY August 18, 2020 Attn: City Clerk Sunny Isles Beach Government Center 18070 Collins Avenue Sunny Isles Beach, Florida 33160 Subject: RFQ No. 20-07-01, Continuing Professional Consulting Services (CCNA) Categories: Environmental Engineering and Geotechnical Services Dear Selection Committee: Coastal Protection Engineering LLC (CPE) welcomes this opportunity to submit our credentials to the City of Sunny Isles Beach (the City) with the enclosed response to the Request for Qualifications (RFQ No. 20- 07-01) to provide Continuing Professional Consulting Services in the category of Environmental Engineering. As a newly established coastal engineering firm comprised of industry leading professionals with strong credentials and years of extensive experience, CPE brings a renewed focus on providing local government clients with highly specialized consulting services in support of projects that restore, manage, and protect coastal resources and infrastructure. Our office is located in Boca Raton, Florida, and is staffed by professionals dedicated to serving coastal communities such as the City of Sunny Isles Beach. Our professional team has worked together for several east coast Florida clients including the City of Deerfield Beach, City of Delray Beach, the Town of Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, Martin County, and Indian River County on numerous coastal projects. This experience has provided us with a comprehensive understanding of the coastal processes, storm impacts, and the environment that characterizes Florida’s east coast. Our experience extends around the state to the Gulf coast and further demonstrates our expertise in all aspects of coastal program management. As seasoned coastal professionals, our multi-disciplinary team of engineers and coastal scientists has designed, permitted, administered construction, monitored, and reviewed coastal projects of all sizes. CPE offers professional coastal services detailed in the Scope of Services under the Environmental Engineering category of this RFQ and is ideally structured and credentialed to assist the City. We routinely provide these services as further described in this RFQ, including: ► Engineering design and reporting. CPE staff have engineered a variety of solutions for preserving coastal environments and protecting infrastructure. Our engineers assess specific project area needs and design the most effective solution to solve erosion issues. We tailor our project designs to the client’s needs and align those needs to the permitting environment. Designs may incorporate beach nourishment, structural stabilization, and dune construction. Based on data collected during physical monitoring surveys, annual monitoring reports document the shoreline and volumetric changes of the beaches and interactions with the adjacent passes and directly support the engineering, design, and planning of nourishment events. CPE also has extensive state-of-the-art numerical modeling capabilities to assist with