Contract Summary

This is a professional engineering services contract, DEP Contract No. GM119, entered into between the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), Office of Greenways & Trails, and Post, Buckley, Schuh & Jernigan, Inc. (PBS&J), a Florida corporation with principal offices in Tallahassee. The contract is funded through grant funds from the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) under CFDA No. 22.205 for the development of trail bridges and trails on the Marjorie Harris Carr Cross Florida Greenway. The contract operates on a task assignment basis with an initial three-year term, renewable upon satisfactory performance and availability of funds.

The contract calls for professional engineering services to design trail bridges on the Withlacoochee Bay Trail Phase II and the Withlacoochee River Bridge at Dunnellon, including topographical surveys, environmental impact assessments, design alternatives, bridge engineering analysis, permitting support, and construction documents. Compensation is provided through a combination of fixed price, fee schedule, and cost reimbursement methodologies, with costs broken into labor (at specified hourly rates by job classification), fringe benefits calculated at 56-59% of direct labor costs, overhead calculated at 80-112.58% of direct labor costs, and a fixed fee of 10% of direct labor plus fringe benefits plus overhead. The contract includes detailed rate schedules for subcontractors including Morgan & Eklund, Inc., Prevost Irrigation Design, Strickland Environmental, Inc., Bolt Underwater Services, ZOOM Design, Inc., Ocean Engineering Associates, and Nodarse & Associates, Inc. No minimum amount of work is guaranteed under the contract, and all design documents become property of the DEP upon completion.