Hydro_Solutions_Consulting.pdf

CITY OF PLANT CITY, FLORIDA

REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS

Library of Engineering Services for Continuing Contracts

RFQ 21-020EN-FC

Category No. Category Descriptions Checkbox

1 General Engineering X 2 Transportation Engineering 3 Environmental Engineering 4 Stormwater Engineering X 5 Geotechnical Engineering 6 Water and Wastewater Engineering X 7 Sub-Surface Utility Engineering 8 Instrumentation and Controls Engineering 9 Electrical Engineering 10 Registered Surveying and Mapping

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Executive Summary

Hydro Solutions Consulting, LLC’s (HSC’s) founding principal is to provide our clients “Value through Service”. HSC staff truly believes it is our responsibility to provide clients economic and engineering value with solutions to meet their most challenging needs. This concept is put forth in all efforts the firm undertakes from small task assignments to multimillion-dollar facilities. All the staff at HSC, have established track records at firms in Florida where they designed, permitted and constructed large scale general civil, stormwater and utility facilities. This Florida specific experience coupled with our small firm’s ability to provide a high personalized level of service is what sets HSC apart from our competitors. “HSC HAS BEEN THE FIRM WE TURN TO FOR CRITICAL PROJECTS AND THEIR STAFF HAVE PROVIDED VALUABLE SERVICES IN THE DESIGN, PERMITTING AND CONSTRUCTION OF OUR PROJECTS” Mark Addison, P.E., Polk County Utilities

HSC is headquartered at 202 Lake Miriam Suite E-1, Lakeland, FL. 33813, which will be the City’s designated primary office. The company also has offices in Orlando and Jacksonville. HSC is a small, locally owned and operated certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) focused on providing our clients the best possible value and highest level of professional services. As a small employee held limited liability corporation, HSC’s team has a personal vested interest in the success of every assignment and project.

Our diverse water project portfolio embodies the One Water paradigm with stormwater, wastewater, reclaimed water, water, and alternative water supply. Our skills are applied through water visioning services where we support your team in everything through water master planning to alternative water supply development. We also understand that making infrastructure dreams a constructed reality requires a funding strategy. The HSC team has helped our clients offset $7.9 million dollars in construction and feasibility funding for water resources projects utilizing a diverse array of funding sources over the past 4 years.

The firm is led by Mr. Robert Beltran, P.E., BCEE, and supported by engineers, scientists, and technical professionals.

Amy Tracy will serve as the Contract Manager for this contract assuring the City’s needs are addressed and Mr. Mike Pekkala as the QA/QC Officer. HSC’s successes are a direct result of our corporate commitment to providing the highest level of responsiveness to our clients. We strive to leverage the best available technology, apply it appropriately, and deliver scientific, regulatory, and engineering solutions. Since the founding of the firm, we have taken a hands-on approach to serving our clients using creative and proven solutions while maintaining sensitivity to budget constraints.

For over a decade, our team members have partnered with Florida utilities and municipalities providing the HSC team a unique understanding of Florida’s local water resource challenges. As a full-service water firm, our project experience spans the latest hydraulic and hydrologic modeling to water treatment technologies, includes a functional understanding of water and wastewater plant treatment and distribution system operational practices, as well as a proven understanding of

3 | P a g e applied water policy and permitting. This has given us practical hands on knowledge and the ability to balance design and regulatory considerations with economic and liability factors.

HSC provides a unique and efficient structure for management of project tasks with emphasis on quality assurance of project work products. Our firm’s success is a direct result of our corporate commitment to providing the highest level of responsiveness to our clients, using the best available and most appropriate engineering methods. On each work authorization, we seek to perform like an extension of our client’s staff, providing the most cost-effective use of available resources. With respect to project implementation, we are widely recognized for our ability to complete projects in a timely, professional, and cost-effective way.

The General Engineering, Category 1, Project Manager is Ms. Alba Más, P.E., who will serve as project manager for this contract. She has more than 35 years of experience in the fields of land planning, civil engineering design and permitting in both the private and public sector. Her expertise in the water management district’s regulatory division overseeing environmental, water use and well construction permitting, and compliance makes her uniquely qualified to provide our clients engineering support in finding resolution to difficult permitting issues. Her support team for this category; are engineers experienced in utility site design for small and large projects in Florida; a team of technical professionals to design small stormwater projects to address drainage, treatment, and permitting needs.

The Stormwater Engineering, Category 4, Project Manager is Scott Ethier, P.E., is a Water Resources Engineer with over 20 years of experience in solving complex water sector issues for governmental clients. He provides senior technical support in applied GIS and water resources engineering to develop water solutions from the initial concepts all the way to construction. Scott specializes in hydrologic and hydraulic modeling for surface water systems, integrated surface water and groundwater systems, potable water systems, reclaimed water systems, and wastewater collection systems. He has developed and supported the implementation of numerous watershed management plans, for several years have worked on the Alafia and Hillsborough River watershed models, and supported the development of utility master plans throughout Florida with project experience that includes design, construction specifications, and regulatory permitting. Mr. Ethier’s supporting project team for this category have extensive familiarity with stormwater ICPR models; with a project experience portfolio to have experience to provide value engineering; permit and funding experts to strive for project designs that meet multiple regulatory obligations.

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The Water and Wastewater Engineering, Category 6, Project Manager is Mr. Matt O’Connor, P.E.

serves as a senior project manager for Hydro Solutions Consulting. His background includes serving as the Engineer of Record for water production facilities, utility pipeline projects, and wastewater facility upgrades. In addition to design, he has contributed hydraulic modeling experience to master planning projects. He has served as the lead engineer for construction engineering projects ranging in size from 0.15 MGD wastewater treatment package systems to 310 MGD water reclamation facility upgrades. Mr. O’Connor’s key and support staff for this category are engineers experienced in wastewater treatment facility design and process improvements including load reduction calculation resulting from treatment improvements; have extensive experience with Water Quality Based Effluent Limitations (WQBELs) and National Pollutant Discharge and Elimination System (NPDES) permits; and a team with Plant City project experience that includes the beneficial reuse of reclaimed water as alternative water supply including public access reuse (PAR) and potable reuse and quantification of the natural resource benefit.

As the prime consultant, HSC will save project budget due to the lower overhead of operating a small business. Our overall team’s expertise, coupled with Mr. Beltran’s understanding of the State’s water policy and natural systems objectives makes the HSC team the right fit for this professional services contract. HSC is proud to support Plant City currently in its general, water and wastewater engineering, project compliance and funding assistance needs. We hope to continue to earn future opportunities to collaborate with the Plant City team through continuing to deliver assigned tasks within budget, for both design and construction phase, with little to no change orders.

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Table of Contents

Tab A: Ability of Professional Personnel & Staff Experience

a) Org chart

b) Related capability

c) Capabilities of staff

Tab B: Relevant Experience

a) Background, history, and experience

b) Florida Department of Transportation pre-qualifications

c) Past and current related experience

Tab C: Location /Accessibility

Tab D: Volume of Similar Contracts with Government Agencies within the Past Five Years and Past Performance of Respondent, Including Partners and Team Members

Tab E: Current and Projected Workload

Tab F: Certified Minority Business Enterprise

Tab G: Local Preference

Tab H: Licenses and Insurance

Tab I: Required Forms

1. W9

2. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF ADDENDA

3. SWORN STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 287.133(3)(a), FLORIDA

STATUTES, ON PUBLIC ENTITY CRIMES

4. NO CONTACT CLAUSE

5. CONFLICT OF INTEREST DISCLOSURE FORM

6. DRUG FREE WORKPLACE FORM

7. AFFIDAVIT CERTIFICATION IMMIGRATION LAWS

8. AGREEMENT FOR ENGINEERING SERVICES

a. Attachment A - Scope of Services

b. Attachment B - Reimbursable Cost Schedule

c. Attachment C - Fee Proposal: Salary Classification and Ranges

d. Attachment D - Certificate of Insurance

e. Attachment E - Truth In Negotiation Certificate Form

f. Attachment F - Acknowledgement of Engineer, Corporation/

g. Partnership Form

h. Attachment G - Work Order Form

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Ability of Professional Personnel & Staff Experience

HSC has assembled a complete team for the general engineering, stormwater, and water/wastewater categories to tackle all the needs the City may have under this contract. The organizational chart below illustrates the key Hydro Solutions staff but also the subconsultants to provide the City complete solutions, managed under one contract, if desired. This approach provides the City the maximum flexibility allowed under proposed contract. However, some projects may require multiple consultants and HSC has strong working relationships with most Central Florida firms providing professional engineering support services.

PRINCIPAL-IN-CHARGE QA/QC

Mike Pekkala, PE (HSC) Robert Beltran, PE (HSC)

STORMWATER ENGINEERING GENERAL ENGINEERING

Project Manager: Alba Mas, PE

(HSC)

Key Staff Michael Sadler, PE (HSC)

Supporting Staff

Amy Tracy (HSC) Ricardo Jimenez, EI (HSC)

Jan Mandrup-Poulsen, MS, MBA

(HSC)

Bob Beltran (HSC) David O’Brien (SurvTech) Kevin Hill, PE (Madrid) Chris Keller, PE (WSI)

Dan Christie, PE (Dewberry) Sean Gibbins, PE (Dewberry)

WATER AND WASTEWATER

ENGINEERING

Project Manager: Matt O’Connor, PE

(HSC)

Devan White, PE (HSC)

Ricardo Jimenez, EI (HSC) Amy Tracy (HSC)

Norm Anderson, PE (Carollo) David O’Brien (SurvTech) Kevin Hill, PE (Madrid)

Bill Hinkle, PSM (Dewberry) Bill Donley, PSM (Dewberry)

Mark McNeal, PE (ASRus) Henry Thomas (Raftelis)

The Hydro Solutions (HSC) Key Team Organizational Chart

Project Manager: Scott Ethier, PE (HSC)

Kevin Albrecht, PE (HSC)

Colson Marsh, EI (HSC) Kaylene Wheeler (HSC)

David O’Brien (SurvTech) Chris Keller, PE (WSI) Kevin Hill, PE (Madrid)

Norm Anderson, PE (Carollo) Chris Shortt, PE (Dewberry)

Kevin Koehler, PE (Dewberry)

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CONTRACT MANAGER

Amy Tracy (HSC)

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Hydro Solutions Consulting (HSC), is well suited to provide the City of Plant City professional services in the general engineering, stormwater, and water & wastewater scope of services because of the qualifications of our team. HSC is led by our Principal in Charge, Mr. Robert Beltran, P.E., BCEE, who leverages over 25 years in the industry to provide the City pragmatic civil and hydro solutions. Mr.

Beltran’s former role as Executive Director of Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD) provides the City a valuable regulatory and policy resource while the state has several rule making initiatives underway including Central Florida Water Initiative (CFWI) and Florida Department Environmental Protection’s implementation of the Clean Waterways Act addressing reclaimed water as a source water and the revision of stormwater rules. It is important to note, Mr. Beltran was selected to represent stormwater design and engineering consultants on the FDEP’s Stormwater Technical Advisory Committee and serves as President Elect of the Florida WateReuse Association, a professional association that lead the formation of the Florida Potable Reuse Commission.

Team Project Capability Amy Tracy serves as the Contract Manager to the City under this professional services opportunity. Ms. Tracy has dedicated her career to Florida’s water resources that began in stormwater when she served as the FDEP basin coordinator responsible for implementation Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDLs). Her several years of tenure developed a project history based on water quality standards for surface and groundwater, multiple mechanistic and qualitative models to assess hydrology and natural system response, rulemaking and the development of regulatory obligations for biological targets, project planning, and pollutant load calculations. Ms. Tracy’s experience in stormwater project development included the utilization of reclaimed water as a supplemental make up water, a critical element to many restoration projects, and served as the foundation for experience in water and wastewater projects.

Her advocacy of reuse water is a valuable resource for alternative water supply, natural systems restoration, and earned her the opportunity to serve as the President of the Florida WateReuse Association. Ms. Tracy’s water and wastewater project experience includes Polk County and Clay County Utility Authority Direct Potable Reuse Project, McIntosh Preserve Wetlands Feasibility and

Conceptual Design, PCU Soil Aquifer Treatment Pilot Project, and Haines City Wastewater Treatment Facility Permit Compliance Assistance. Ms. Tracy has assisted clients to obtain over $10 million in grants over the last five years to offset water, wastewater, reclaimed, and stormwater construction costs as well as supported the Polk Regional Water Cooperative to be invited to apply for over $200 million in WIFIA credit subsidy and State Revolving Fund (SRF) drinking water loans to construct alternative water supply projects.

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Mr. Mike Pekkala, has more than 34 years of experience in the fields of water, wastewater and stormwater engineering. His experience includes a variety of study, design and construction projects. Representative projects include design of wastewater treatment plants, water treatment plants, wastewater and water pumping stations, industrial pretreatment facilities, water and wastewater feasibility studies and master plans, water transmission and distribution systems, wastewater collection systems, water wells, water supply systems, cost opinions, water and sewer rate studies, and value engineering studies. Mr. Pekkala has supported the City’s Water Treatment Plant #5 project and provided various technical assistance to the water and wastewater and engineering teams at Plant City. Mr. Pekkala’s extensive infrastructure project experience allows project assessments and evaluation of the engineering approaches from the root cause perspective which leads to value engineering, change order minimization, cost control, constructible and permittable projects. He has served as a Senior Engineer, QA/QC manager, and Project Engineer for hundreds of projects throughout Central Florida.

HSC’s experienced water resources team is a fully qualified staff to carry out assigned work authorizations for the City of Plant City. For each category HSC offers the City a project manager that is an expert in the discipline.

General Engineering Category 1, Ms. Alba Más, PE serves as project manager because of her significant experience in site design and permitting, stormwater and utility infrastructure design, hydraulic modeling, and project management. Not only does Ms. Más have the distinction of 30 years of service with the Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD) in the regulatory division but her recent project experience includes the feasibility study for Polk County Parks and Natural Resources assessment of nearly 100 acres of wetland treatment and is the ERP professional support program manager for the South County Walton Mosquito Control District. Ms. Más currently serves as the lead engineer for McIntosh Park 30% wetlands project and supports the City’s engineering division in plan review and other engineering support tasks.

Mr. Michael Sadler, PE serves as key staff under the general engineering category. Mr. Sadler is a military veteran who served 7 years in the US Army Reserve and has over 15 years of professional engineering experience. Mr.

Sadler started his career designing bottling plant improvements and designing other small structures for the orange juice industry. He also spent 8 years with the Florida Department of Health (DOH) in Polk County reviewing permits for all Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) regulated drinking water systems and public swimming pools. He was also heavily involved in rule development with the DEP and the DOH. Mr. Sadler spent over 5 years with the Polk County Utilities (PCU) completing development reviews; serving as the Capacity Engineer with the responsibility of completing the capacity report; and, as a Project Manager. Currently, Mr. Sadler supports Plant City as professional support services in engineering, water and wastewater engineering and technical issues.

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Under this category HSC’s Mr. Jan Mandrup-Poulsen brings to the City a water quality and permitting expert who has over 30 years as a water professional with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and provides unparalleled experience with TMDLs, SSAC’s, WQBEL’s and ERP’s. Supporting this general engineering category is Mr. Dan Christie, PE with Dewberry, who has 30 years of experience and an expert in roadway design with high proficiency in vertical geometry, pavement design, drainage design, quantity computations and cost estimates. Dewberry’s Mr. Sean Gibbins, PE has 8 years of roadway engineering and is experienced in design and plans production including the preparation and design of 3D models, roadway profiles, cross sections, computation books, utility coordination, field traffic studies, and a variety of transportation engineering.

Stormwater Engineering Category 4; Mr. Scott Ethier, PE has 20 years as a water professional with unparalleled experience with modeling, stormwater design, reclaimed water infrastructure serves as HSC’s Stormwater Engineering Category 4 project manager and will provide the City a collaborative leader. Mr. Ethier has proven project experience in small and large stormwater system design and permitting and is an expert in watershed and basin modeling with extensive experience in the ICPR 3 and 4 models in the Hillsborough watershed basin. His project experience includes Reclaimed Water Distribution Optimization, Reclaimed Water Distribution Pipeline Design, Brewer Park Reclaimed Water Extension Feasibility, and McIntosh Preserve wetlands and hydrological model.

Mr. Kevin Albrecht, PE serves as key staff for stormwater engineering support. Mr. Albrecht has over a decade of engineering experience with a focus on water resource and environmental systems including flood protection, hydraulic and wetland restoration, and water quality improvement. His experience includes stormwater planning, design and perming of water resource focused projects for both public and private sector clients throughout Florida. An experienced project manager, he has completed over 14 Watershed/Lake Management Plans and he is well versed in all aspects of hydrologic, hydraulic, and water quality modeling; surface and water quality monitoring; surface water improvement planning, design, and permitting; and Geographical Information System (GIS) mapping and analysis.

Other engineering and technical support include the experience of HSC’s Colson Marsh, E.I. who is leading the construction observation for the City’s McIntosh Preserve Phase I Trail project with Plant City Parks and Recreation Division. Kaylene Wheeler, HSC’s certified project manager, formally served as the city of Palm Bay’s NPDES MS4 coordinator and is experienced in stormwater drainage and maintenance for both the MS4 system as well as construction general permit requirements for sediment and erosion requirements. Ms. Wheeler’s experience includes service as a project manager for the Indian River Lagoon National Estuary Program which provides the City a knowledgeable resource in the both preparation of grant applications but also development and implementation of stormwater projects to address flooding and natural system ecological needs.

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Supporting this category, is Wetlands Solutions, Inc with subcontracted services ranging between 10-25% of project budget.

WSI currently supports HSC on Plant City projects. The two firms have worked collaboratively for the last three years to develop water quality improvement projects through the feasibility assessment and conceptual design of the Plant City McIntosh Park Treatment Wetlands, Saddle Creek Farms Road Treatment Wetlands, and the Audubon Parcel Treatment Wetlands. These projects included field assessment and data collection, hydrological modeling, pollutant load calculations and removal efficiencies, civil engineering, hydrological restoration and floodplain attenuation. WSI is led by Chris Keller, PE experienced in complicated wetland permitting, Scott Knight, PE, Ph. D an expert and biophysical process and Mr.

Ron Clarke, PE is an experienced natural systems engineer.

Also supporting the stormwater engineering category is Dewberry’s Chris Shortt, PE, and Kevin Koehler, PE.

Mr. Shortt has 14 years of experience in hydraulic water modeling, drainage design and stormwater modeling, water distribution and wastewater collection system design. He is very familiar with various design software, including AutoCAD, WaterCAD, HydroCAD, PONDS, MODRET, HY-8, and ICPR. Mr. Koehler has 15 years’ experience in drainage design and analysis for roadway and land development, including roadway design through construction, street improvements, stormwater system retrofitting, stormwater conveyance systems, retention/attenuation facilities, and drainage studies. He is proficient with AutoCAD Civil 3D, hydraulic computer modeling (ICPR) and other drainage software packages (PONDS, ASAD, StormCAD, HydroCAD, HydraFlow). Mr. Koehler was the Drainage Project Manager for the NeoCity project in Osceola County, a ±540-acre institutional and commercial development that serves as a regionally significant surface water reservoir system for water detention, treatment, and reuse.

Water and Wastewater Engineering Category 6, Mr. Matt O’Connor, PE serves as HSC’s project manager. His experience with the City’s water plant project as well as 20 years of water and wastewater experience provides the City with a project manager who is not only technically outstanding but also a teammate who presently supports the City in mirid of technical and engineering support on water and wastewater issues. Mr. O’Connor’s most recent project experience includes project manager and lead engineer for Polk County Utilities Direct Potable Reuse Pilot Demonstration Facility and his project history includes small, medium, and large infrastructure and distribution system problem solving. His experience as the project manager for the Polk Regional Water Cooperative Southeast Wellfields water distribution system required a solid mastery of hydraulic models, engineering for utility lines and booster stations.

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Ms. Devan White, P.E. serves as key staff for water and wastewater engineering. She has served as a project manager and project engineer for the past 12 years on projects in master planning, water treatment process and design, permitting, and construction services. She is also experienced in Client Management, acting as client liaison responsible for developing and maintaining relationships as well as communications for projects between the firm and the client. Mrs. White has worked on a variety of projects in Polk County to help provide engineering support for master plans and alternative water supply initiatives. Mrs. White has a diverse background of experience; with projects involving the operation of pilot scale water treatment technologies (membranes, granular activated carbon, and ozone), master planning, treatment process and design, permit, hydraulic modeling, alternative water supplies, and construction observation services

HSC’s Mr. Ricardo Jimenez, E.I, will provide engineering support for this category his project experience includes City projects such as Water Treatment Plant #5 and McIntosh Preserve Wetlands. Mr. Jimenez’s project history also includes large pump station design. Ms. Amy Tracy will also provide leadership under this category to provide funding services. Mr. Colson Marsh, E.I. project experience includes engineering for force main repair and replacement utilizing technology to reduce cost and optimize schedule. Mr. Marsh is assigned to several pipeline projects for Plant City and understands the City’s standards and processes.

ASRus, led by Mr. Mark McNeal, PG has been a leader with indirect potable reuse projects in Florida, including projects with Hillsborough County (SHARP) and City of Tampa (TAP) locally.

Mr. McNeal serves as senior hydrogeologist for the Plant City Well 10 Evaluation project to evaluate an existing well for future water supply capacity. Mr. McNeal is well known in Florida for reclaimed water Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) projects that store large quantities of surplus reclaimed water for beneficial use. HSC collaborates with ASRus extensively with a mutual respect between the two firms was established through a shared project history with subcontracted services ranging between 10-20% of project budget. It is important to note ASRus serves as a subconsultant solely to the HSC team which is reflection of the commitment to the City to serve viable cost-efficient solutions that are permittable and supports the City’s sustainable water project approach.

HSC has collaborated with Raftelis most recently on the Polk Regional Water Cooperative and the WIFIA letter of interest (LOI) and SRF loan application process with subcontracted services ranging between 10-15 % of the project budget. Raftelis is registered with the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) as a Municipal Advisor. Registration as a Municipal Advisor is a requirement under the Dodd-Frank

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Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. All firms that provide financial forecasts that include assumptions about the size, timing, and terms for possible future debt issues, as well as debt issuance support services for specific proposed bond issues, including bond feasibility studies and coverage forecasts, must be registered with the SEC and MSRB to legally provide financial opinions and advice. Mr. Henry Thomas has over 40 years of utility industry rate and financial experience focusing on issues facing water, wastewater, solid waste, natural gas, electric, and stormwater utilities. Henry’s experience includes directing financial consulting services for publicly owned utilities and governmental entities. He has been responsible for preparing utility rate and cost-of-service studies, business plans, bond feasibility studies, designing water conservation rates, connection and development fees, municipal impact fees, developing utility financial policies.

HSC and Carollo have a proven work history having collaborated for the last two years with the Clay County Utility Authority (CCUA) to support the development of a potable reuse demonstration project to further treat public access reuse (PAR) to drinking water standards through the development of direct potable reuse (DPR) pilot project.. Norm Anderson, PE has been an essential part of Carollo’s team working with HSC to provide electrical and instrumentation support. Mr. Anderson has 15 years of experience in Electrical and I&C design for water and wastewater facilities. He led the EI&C project design team for the Plant City WTP #5 Upgrade Project. Mr. Anderson has also previously served as the SCADA Manager for a municipal utility as well as managed general utility CIP upgrades.

Supporting HSC on all three categories for survey is SurvTech Solutions with subcontracted services ranging between 2 – 5% of project budget. The two firms have a proven track record delivering projects including survey tasks on-time, within budget, and value on items such as boundary survey, LiDAR mapping, bathymetry and tree surveys in addition to the more standard survey tasks as culvert elevation. SurvTech is a team player, consistently providing the best value available. It is important to note that SurvTech plans to respond to this solicitation as a prime consultant under professional services Survey Category 10 but only serves as subconsultant to the HSC team, underscoring the commitment between HSC and SurvTech to serve the City’s project needs.

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HSC is sensitive to the fact the sheer volume of design and construction underway in the State is evident in the availability of survey. Although SurvTech has more than exceeded expectations, to ensure any City task assignment is fulfilled, Dewberry will also support survey needs. Assisting in the survey of water and wastewater projects will be Dewberry’s Bill Hinkle, PSM and Bill Donley, PSM. Mr. Hinkle has 40 years’ experience in various types of surveying and mapping. His experience includes right-of-way maps, right-of-way control maps, geodetic surveys, design surveys, right-of-way surveys, subsurface utility engineering surveys, horizontal and vertical control, including utilization of electronic field book, topographic, and construction surveying. Mr.

Donley has 39 years of experience in control surveys, design and right-of-way surveys and mapping, excavation and utility mapping projects as well as hydrographic and mean high water surveys throughout the state. He has managed over 400 public and private roadway projects, design build endeavors and continuing service contracts.

Madrid supports HSC in Categories 1,4, and 6 to provide Geotechnical services with subcontracted services ranging between 5 – 10% of project budget. Their project history includes projects such as the NOTU Trident WWTP Repair included new pipelines and replacement structures at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL. The CRUSA WTP north of Bartow, FL (for Polk County) included geotechnical for 2 x 1MG water tanks, a large warehouse/office building, pump stations, many access drives and stormwater ponds. On the 5MG Water Tank at C. Wayne Combee WTP in Lakeland, FL, the tank was proposed to be 3 feet from the top of bank of an existing stormwater pond. This project included both settlement analysis and slope stability analysis for the tank loads so close to the pond.

Capability of Respondent’s Staff HSC project managers and engineers develop project implementation plans to identify critical success factors. The key to keeping a schedule with high-quality submissions is to actively communicate with the team of key milestones of the schedule and monitor quality daily to avoid re-work and delay. Typically, the project schedule will include a “pencils down” internal review date prior to any submission to allow both the PM and the QC manager time to review and adjust. It is anticipated that the QC manager and QC reviewers are not directly involved in the project. Review meetings should convey a consolidated set of comments that can be readily incorporated into the next phase of the work. Quality control is an essential component to accurate deliverable and adherence to schedule.

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HSC performs QA/QC for all deliverables and supporting work that generated the deliverable. The project manager collaborates with QA/QC officer to ensure that all materials have a QA/QC review, the QA/QC form is filled out to document the reviewers through the QA process. The project manager is responsible for ensuring that all QA/QC documents are saved to the project folder include the file naming convention to maintain chain of custody. Before the QA/QC form is signed by QA/QC officer, the officer confirms with PM the deliverable status. HSC retains deliverables and supporting materials for projects for five (5) years in a reasonably accessible location. HSC utilizes a cloud-based time and budget management system that is updated and can be monitored by the project manager daily. This software provides a one stop location for a project manager to track earn value, deliverables & status of tasks, decision logs, action item logs and the risk register. It also allows close control of who is working on the project and budget compliance. In addition, a weekly budget summary is provided prior to a weekly management meeting, where tasks and workload are assigned to all personnel is discussed.

Comments received from the City and other agencies during preliminary design will be incorporated in the preparation of 60%, 90% and final drawings, specifications, bidding and contract documents, and construction cost opinion. Our experience with water projects includes the understanding that one of the crucial success factors of a project is collaboration with the operations staff to evaluate the existing issues or root cause and perform a life cycle cost evaluation of the current and future operating conditions and make recommendations on how to optimize project and design approach.

HSC is keenly aware the first step to bring projects in on time and within budget is proper project planning by developing a strong working scope of services. HSC lays out specific scopes of services and budgets that are carefully adhered to. To assist with this, HSC uses software and a management program to provide current and accurate budget and scheduling information. The second process involves communication and reviews of work progress. These reviews will not only be conducted internally

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The project is not complete until the design is successfully bid and constructed. In the last year HSC has kicked off the construction of McIntosh Trails and strive to provide the City as much support as needed during this critical phase. The construction cost estimates for the McIntosh Park Trails project were just lower than the estimated and allowed a preferred alternative bid option to be implemented on the project. The HSC team includes a licensed Florida Certified General Contractor who can work with the Contractor to achieve scheduling milestones. This process all starts at project bidding through providing clear documents that not only state the design elements but also clearly provide the goals of the City.

Design projects typically include support on bid solicitation, conduct pre-bid meeting, evaluate bids, recommend bid award, process Notice of Award, provide responses to Bid questions and clarification, process Notice to Proceed and conduct pre-construction meeting. To facilitate the City streamlining staff resources HSC can support shop drawing and submittal reviews, monthly progress meetings, resident or periodic site observations, substantial and completion inspections, punch-list preparation, response to Contractor requests for information, progress payment review, record drawings and project file maintenance.

The importance of startup services and working with the Contractor assures the project meets the intent of the design. HSC utilizes the latest drone technology to document regular construction progress. This simple but effective tool helps facilitate communication and minimize change orders.

Our team will process contract completion documentation including release of liens and final payment and preparation of certifications of completion, as-built drawings and as required by regulatory agencies.

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Alba Más, P.E.

Project Manager – General Engineering

Alba has worked in Florida, with the public and private sector, on stormwater, water supply, land planning and development projects. She has significant experience in permitting, design and project management. Ms. Más worked for 30 years at Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD) in the Regulatory division starting in the Environmental Resource Permitting (ERP) program and culminating as the Division Director for all the District Regulatory programs. In these roles, she worked on resolution of complex permitting issues and rule development for the ERP and Consumptive Use Permitting (CUP) programs as well as reducing review time frames.

Project Experience

Polk County Parks and Natural Resources Saddle Creek Audubon Hydrological and Ecological Restoration Feasibility Study, Polk County, Florida

This is a feasibility project to develop conceptual alternatives to improve water quality in Saddle Creek through routing low flows from Saddle Creek through the Audubon Property to receive water quality treatment prior to discharging back to the creek. Ms. Más has been the lead project engineer in the development of the opinion of probable cost and the refinement of three conceptual alternatives to improve water quality and hydrologic flows at the sites.

Regulation Division Director, SWFWMD

Led a group of 144 full time employees in meeting statewide rules for well construction, water supply and environmental resource permitting. During Ms.

Más’ tenure, she focused on reducing timeframes and increasing work efficiency.

Among her innovative permitting solutions, she established a fast track permitting process for ERP reviews for the Villages; a multi county development whose construction capacity and needs was exceeding the permit.

Tampa Service Office Director, SWFWMD

Oversaw the ERP and CUP Regulation programs for Hillsborough and Pinellas Counties, providing guidance, and final approval for all permits and compliance. During her tenure Ms. Más oversaw the permitting of Tampa Bay Water’s Consolidated Permit, Alafia River Withdrawal Permit and Brandon Wellfield, as well as significant multi-permit land development projects such as Westchase and Carillon and expansions to Tampa International Airport and MacDill Air Force Base. These large-scale permits required close work with the applicants to resolve complex permitting issues.

Education

B.S. Civil Engineering, University of South

Florida, 1982

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, University of Florida, 1977

Office Location

Lakeland

Years of Experience:

Years with HSC: 1

Professional Engineer

FL No. 38617

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Matt O’Connor, P.E.

Project Manager – Water and Wastewater Engineering

Mr. Matthew O’Connor is an environmental engineer with 19 years of experience in developing high quality, well-designed water management systems for wastewater, water and stormwater facilities, including new facilities and retrofitting existing treatment systems. His experience encompasses design project management and construction management.

Project Experience

Combined Projects Implementation Phase 1: Pipeline, Polk Regional Water Cooperative, Florida As part of a larger water supply treatment and transmission project, Project Manager responsible for preliminary design of the transmission system. The design includes plan and profile design of potable water pipelines. Roughly 75 miles of transmission pipeline to distribute potable water to multiple municipalities throughout Polk County. Project is currently in the preliminary design phase. Multiple funding sources were leveraged including State Revolving Fund loans, SWFWMD co-funding ($236 million), and WIFIA loans ($230 million).

Project Manager for the Pipeline Route Analysis for the Tampa Augmentation Project for the City of Tampa, FL.

The City was undertaking an Implementation Program for the Tampa Augmentation Project that will beneficially reuse highly treated water from the City’s Howard F. Curren Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant (HFCAWTP).

The Tampa Augmentation Project pipeline was intended to convey up to 50 MGD of highly treated water from the HFCAWTP and extend to one of two potential delivery locations: the vicinity of the Upper Pool of the Tampa Bypass Canal (TBC) or the general vicinity of David L Tippin Water Treatment Facility (DLTWTF) and the Roger’s Park Golf Course Area. The project involved routing a 48-inch diameter through urban area and connecting multiple well sites for aquifer recharge and recovery. In addition, an alternative was pursued for using the stormwater system as part of the conveyance of recovered water for transfer to the Hillsborough River.

Project Manager for the Cherry Hill Water Production Facility, Polk County, FL.

Responsible for design and construction management of a 3.36 MGD maxi-mum day capacity water facility with two onsite wells. The project included drilling two new wells, raw water piping, 1.0 MG of storage, disinfection, SCADA communication, and 6.84 MGD capacity high service pumps with variable frequency drives. Services provided include facility permitting which includes the site stormwater permit.

B.S., Civil Engineering, University of South

Florida, 1998

Office Location

Lakeland

Years with HSC: 2

Professional Engineer Registrations:

Florida No. 59441

Affiliations

American Water Works Association (AWWA)

Florida Water Environment Association

(FWEA)

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Scott Ethier, PE Project Manager – Stormwater Engineering

Mr. Ethier is a professional environmental/water resources engineer with over 20 years of experience in hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, utility master planning, watershed management planning, floodplain determination and mapping, stormwater management system design, and permitting. Scott is proficient in GIS database creation and management as well as GIS analysis to support water resources projects.

Project Experience

City of Plant City McIntosh Park Integrated Water Resources Project – City of Plant City, FL Senior engineer responsible for the hydrologic analysis of the potential expansion of the McIntosh Park Stormwater Management Facility to improve flood control in the area and to allow the discharge of reclaimed water from the Plant City WRF. The project involved converting a subset of the Hillsborough River/Tampa Bypass Canal Stormwater Management Model (SWMM) to ICPR4 and incorporating a 2-D groundwater module. The ICPR4 model was utilized to study and analyze existing and proposed conditions discharge rates and stages for continuous simulations for representative wet, normal, and dry extended periods to assess potential changes to hydrology under the proposed conceptual alternatives(s).

Hillsborough River/Tampa Bypass Canal Watershed Management Masterplan Update – Hillsborough County, FL Project manager responsible for all aspects of the WMP update for the Trout Creek, Main Channel North, and South Central subwatersheds. The Hillsborough River/Tampa Bypass Canal watershed encompasses approximately 350 square miles in Hillsborough, Pasco, and Polk Counties and was previously updated in August 2010 (known conditions through 2007). The hydrologic/hydraulic model was updated to the 2017 LiDAR and aerial imagery and converted to HC-SWMM 5 (modified EPA SWMM 5).

Specific project tasks include updating the model and watershed geodatabase to adhere to the SWFWMD Guidelines and Specifications, calibrating and verifying the updated hydrologic/hydraulic model, re-mapping the 100-yr floodplain, analyzing the watershed level of service, re-evaluation of proposed capital improvement projects, and updating the WMP Report.

Alafia River Watershed Management Masterplan Update – Hillsborough County, FL Project manager responsible for all aspects of the WMP update for the Bell Creek, Fishhawk Creek, and North Prong Alafia River subwatersheds.

The Alafia River watershed encompasses approximately 418 square miles in both Hillsborough and Polk Counties and was previously updated in May 2008 (known conditions through 2006). The hydrologic/hydraulic model was updated to the 2017 LiDAR and aerial imagery and converted to HC-SWMM 5 (modified EPA

SWMM 5).

B.S., Civil/Environmental

Engineering, University of South Florida, 1997

Office Location

Lakeland

Years of Experience:

Years with HSC: 8

Professional Engineer Registration:

Florida, No. 67660

Affiliations

Florida Water Environment

Association (FWEA)

Publications

Hydraulic Performance of Conflict Junction Boxes – July 1996

Hydraulic Performance of Structures for Bridge Drainage – March 1997

Hydraulic Performance of Drainage Structures

Phase I & II – November 1998

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Relevant Experience

HSC is pleased to offer Plant City a diverse array of engineering, scientific, and technical resources to support general engineering, stormwater, wastewater and water professional services. Our team of engineers and scientists have great experience with studies, design and permit of water treatment plants in Florida, study, design and permitting of wastewater treatment plant upgrades, designing stormwater treatment ponds, hydraulic modeling services (worked on all of Polk County system models).

HSC has done projects throughout central Florida.

Through these projects, we have developed a great working relationship with the Water Management Districts and are familiar with their standards and processes.

A key need to develop and implement infrastructure projects is funding assistance to offset project costs. Our team has developed a successful funding approach that includes a comprehensive review of funding sources and the requirements of those respective sources such as match requirements, Davis Bacon and other federal requirements, maximum award amount etc. HSC successfully supported Clay County Utility Authority to obtain $3 million in legislative appropriation through a combination of agency briefings, executive white papers, and discussions with legislative aids. Our funding plan experience includes not only grants (appropriations, WMD cost share, DEO and stormwater) but also financing through State Revolving Fund (SRF) and Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA).

Year Amount Municipality Funding Type Project

FUNDING PROGRAMS

2019 1,480,000.00$ CCUA SJRWMD Cost Sharing Tynes Reclaimed Storage and Pump Station 2019 1,500,000.00$ CCUA Approprations Funding Mid-Clay Wastewater Treatment BTU 2019 1,500,000.00$ CCUA Approprations Funding Fleming Island Wastewater Treatment BTU 2020 900,570.00$ CCUA SJRWMD Cost Sharing Saratoga Springs Reclaimed Water Storage 2020 1,500,000.00$ CCUA Approprations Funding Saratoga Springs Reclaimed Water Storage 2019 490,000.00$ CCUA Alternative Water Supply Funding Treatability Study 2016 1,186,350.00$ City of Jacksonville, FL SJRWMD Cost Sharing Moncrief Creek Project 2016 136,431.00$ City of Jacksonville, FL EPB Grant Microbe Lift Pilot Project 2016 63,000.00$ City of Jacksonville, FL SJRWMD Innovative Cost Share Microbe Lift Pilot Project 2020 1,400,000.00$ City of Leesburg SJRWMD Cost Sharing Turnpike WWTF 2019 337,175.00$ City of Plant City SWFWMD Cost Sharing McIntosh Park Integrated Water Master Plan 2020 287,175.00$ City of Plant City SWFWMD Cost Sharing McIntosh Park Integrated Water Master Plan 2019 300,000.00$ City of Plant City SWFWMD Cost Sharing IPR Feasability/Pilot 2017 500,000.00$ City of Pompano Beach, FL 319(h) Avondale Reuse and Stormwater Project 2018 500,000.00$ City of Tallahasse, FL 319(h) Market Square Green Infrastructure 2018 1,400,000.00$ Polk County Utilities SWFWMD Cost Sharing NWRUSA Reclaimed Recharge Project

13,480,701.00$ Funding SubTotal

FINANCING PROGRAMS

2019 325,000,000.00$ PRWC WIFIA Loan SE & West Polk Wellfields and Transmisison System 2020 387,000.00$ PRWC SRF Loan SE & West Polk Wellfields and Transmisison System

325,387,000.00$ Financing SubTotal

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Since 2016, HSC has held the privilege of a continuing services contract with Plant City. Under this contract, HSC had 11 separate task orders. Four of those assignments included engineering support services for staff augmentation to assist the Plant City team. As a part of those efforts, HSC staff supported the City to complete development review, construction observation, utility coordination, master plan coordination, CIP development, and project management services.

Also, HSC received multiple assignments under the GEC to complete water and wastewater engineering services. These projects include reclaimed water pipeline installation in downtown Plant City and the design and construction of a fire protection booster station on Amberjack Boulevard. Our firm also performed a feasibility study for an existing 24” reclaimed water pipe, east along Airport Road, to connect with Park; as well as, the design and construction of a watermain extension on Rice Road.

Other HSC efforts to support Plant City includes extensive coordination with the Parks Department on the development of McIntosh Park.