Task Assignment Notification for DEP Contract WM998

This document is a Task Assignment Notification (Task 16) issued under DEP Contract No. WM998 between the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and Wildwood Consulting, Inc. The task assignment was executed on October 10, 2014, with a contract manager Steve Ciopcia and contractor manager Tiffany Busby serving as primary contacts. The work focuses on facilitation support for the Northern Everglades Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) and Basin Management Action Plans (BMAPs) covering the St. Lucie River and Estuary, Lake Okeechobee, Caloosahatchee Estuary, Everglades West Coast, and Kissimmee Chain of Lakes Basins.

Task 1 encompasses basin-specific meeting facilitation, BMAP development, tracking, and support through October 31, 2015, with a maximum budget of $224,930.82 comprised of personnel costs ($208,705.00), travel reimbursement ($13,944.35), and other expenses including copies ($2,281.47). The contractor will provide three staff positions—Senior Program Manager at $147 per hour, Program Manager I at $97 per hour, and Administrative Assistant at $43 per hour—to deliver services including meeting planning and organization, BMAP document development, stakeholder coordination, project load reduction calculations, annual progress reporting, and comprehensive facilitation support for up to seventeen anticipated trips to the basin. Invoices will be submitted monthly with documentation of hours spent on each subtask, and the effort is estimated to remain relatively constant throughout the task year. All deliverables including draft agendas, meeting presentations, handouts, meeting notes, technical documents, staff meeting notes, teleconference summaries, memos, and annual progress reports are subject to specific hour limitations and departmental review requirements.