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| Page 3 City of Sunny Isles Beach | RFQ No. 18-02-01 | March 22, 2018 Marine And Coastal Professional Engineering Consulting Services (CCNA) Project Approach & Understanding Project Understanding We understand that the City of Sunny Isles Beach (City) is seeking a qualified engineering consultant to provide marine/ coastal, civil, geotechnical, environmental engineering along with regulatory permitting, marine biology, surveying, construction administration and architectural services. Moffatt & Nichol (M&N) and our subconsultants have a proven track record with public sector clients for creative, efficient and cost-effective delivery of coastal and marine engineering projects that are similar in scope to those included in this RFQ. Key personnel in M&N’s Miami office – Ms. Christy Brush, Ms. Laura Shepherd, and Mr. Timothy Blankenship - have directly contributed to several coastal projects in the City. These projects have included Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) Coastal Construction Control Line (CCCL) projects for oceanfront development. Ms. Brush is currently coordinating with the City to facilitate implementation of truck haul beach nourishments in the City on behalf of private developers. These projects have resulted in beach management within the City at no cost to the County or to the City. Ms. Brush and Ms. Shepherd have managed the CCCL permitting of many of the private redevelopment projects over the past 20+ years along the oceanfront within the City while employed at their previous firm, and currently M&N has four active CCCL permitting projects within the City. While employed at their previous firm, Mr. Blankenship and Dr. Yong Chen were the lead coastal engineers in the “Phase I - Shoreline Stabilization Study Report” prepared for the City in 2009. M&N staff have direct project experience in the City and along the coast of Miami-Dade County. The following proposed approach and methodology is based on our team’s experience and working knowledge in the City as well as from other successful South Florida coastal/marine projects. Firm Organization Our entire project team has extensive experience with a variety of public and private sector clients, including work with and within the City. We are routinely engaged in, fully understand, and can efficiently manage multi-disciplinary projects, ensuring that quality, schedule, and budget needs are fully realized. M&N will plan and manage all work from our Miami office, and perform the greatest practicable extent of work within that office. Likewise, our subconsultants will perform their work in their local/regional offices. Firms have been selected as subconsultants based on working relationships developed over many years. CSA Ocean Sciences and M&N are teamed on large NOAA contracts, with values exceeding $10M, and the firms are currently teamed on coastal engineering contracts with the City of Hollywood. Morgan & Eklund, a subsidiary of CSA, is currently working on the Hillsboro Beach Nourishment project designed and permitted by M&N, and they also worked on the Key Biscayne Nourishment in 2017 with M&N. M&N works regularly with Revuelta Architecture, and their office is across the street from M&N’s Miami office. M&N has subconsulted four geotechnical projects to HP Consultants for a similar marine/coastal engineering contract with City of Miami, and HP is a CBE firm within Miami-Dade County. Key personnel with M&N have worked extensively with EE & G in the past on environmental assessment and remediation projects for both private and public sector clients. M&N is accustomed to managing projects with many multi-disciplined team members, both in-house and subcontracted. M&N will retain full and ultimate responsibility for successful project management and completion, and will maintain full accountability for all assignments undertaken by our highly-qualified subconsultants. We will draw on our Team resources to meet the specific needs of the site investigations, strategy/design report preparation and preliminary design, agency involvement and permitting, funding applications and management, final design, and construction support and construction inspection services. We will conduct regular Team meetings to review progress and facilitate communication. Strategy and Work Plan For each assigned project/task order, a kick-off meeting or discussion will be held with the City to review the scope, key project goals and elements, schedule, responsibilities and resources, risk/benefit variables, costs, and other items that are pertinent for success. M&N will collaborate with the City to establish a custom strategy that is tailored to the needs of each project/task order. Furthermore, we pride ourselves in looking at all aspects of a project during the strategy development stage, considering matters