Stantec_UCNSB_RSQ10-22_04.19.22.pdf

UTILITIES COMMISSION

CITY OF NEW SMYRNA BEACH,

FLORIDA

CONTINUING

PROFESSIONAL

SERVICES

Statement of Qualifications

RSQ 10-22 April 19, 2022

Prepared for:

Stantec Consulting Services Inc.

4798 New Broad Street, Suite 100

Orlando, Florida, 32814-6436

Maureen Lynch, CPPB, Procurement Manager Utilities Commission, City of New Smyrna Beach, FL 200 Canal Street New Smyrna Beach, Florida 32168

RE: Request For Statement Of Qualifications For Continuing Professional Services | RSQ 10-22

Dear Selection Committee, We understand that realizing value requires coupling the right people and processes with a thorough understanding of the Utilities Commission, City of New Smyrna Beach (Commission) water, wastewater and reclaimed water needs and vision for the future. The Commission has set itself apart as a utility that provides innovative and cost-effective potable, wastewater and reclaimed water services. At Stantec, we think a keen local focus needs to be at the core of any sustainable project initiative. For this statement of qualifications, we have assembled a locally based team with extensive local and national credibility.

In building a strong team to address your projects’ needs, we have developed a comprehensive and experienced team of engineers, planners, financial and scientists who truly understand your projects, needs, and their significance to the City, community, and stakeholders. This integrated team has been assembled with key team members living and working in Florida on water, wastewater, and reclaimed water projects. We chose these professionals based on past working relationships, their knowledge base and experiences on similar projects.

We have a long history providing services for water, wastewater, and reclaimed water projects in the State of Florida, and currently provide continuing professional consulting services for 35 utilities in Florida. We have had the pleasure of working with you and your staff since 2019 and look forward for the opportunity to grow our relationship for many more years to come. This mixture of experience and local know-how ensures the team is aware of any local challenges and can access the appropriate resources to solve them. This advantage allows us to integrate regionally specific, sustainable solutions into all aspects of your project.

A Project Manager and Team that you know Our Project Manager, Sergio Hoyos, PE, has over 20 years of municipal water, wastewater, and reclaimed water experience in the Florida area and has been your Project Manager since 2019. From the project managers’ preliminary meeting to the successful delivery of the project, our project plan will minimize risk and increase quality control. We have a strong process that creates clear and concise communication between all team members, stakeholders, contractors, and, most importantly, you. As your advocate on all project matters, we act as a seamless and transparent extension of you. Fully integrated and fully committed— we are your partner every step of the way.

Supporting Sergio will be local and national technical experts with the experience to meet your continuing professional services contract’s specific needs. This means that we can match technical experts to project needs and that we’ll have staff across numerous disciplines available for all assignments. As you have seen from our previous work for the Commission, when it’s right, we can easily reach out to experts in any of our offices worldwide to tackle any challenge.

Each of our team members are dedicated to achieving the key objectives for implementing and providing professional services. For the past several years, Stantec has been continually striving to build trusting partnerships with the Commission by bringing the right people, developing the right solutions, and holding ourselves to high standards of technical excellence and client services. Our strong diverse talents are driven to achieve success for the Commission - this experience is demonstrated in our organizational chart, qualifications and resumes that are provided in Sections 1, 3 and 7 of this submittal.

Meeting Your Goals for Sustainability It’s our goal to help you achieve the Commission’s goals. As a charter member of the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI), Stantec has played a leadership role in the development of Envision. The Envision framework for green infrastructure provides an opportunity for our experts to better collaborate with your team and draw on our collective knowledge to enable innovative, sustainable, and resilient design.

We use it to inform and guide our design choices and decision-making processes with the aim of improving the triple bottom line performance and resiliency of our infrastructure designs.

Stantec’s Experience with Projects of Similar Size Stantec has over 65+ years of experience of providing Continuing Professional Engineering Services Contracts for many clients throughout the State of Florida. Our project team members have worked on 35 water, wastewater, and reclaimed water continuing services contracts in Florida and understand the effort that is required.

Proven Results Working with the Utilities Commission, City of New Smyrna Beach Stantec has a proven track record with the Commission as evidenced through the successful projects completed, including many task orders that have been issued since 2019. We have a detailed working knowledge your operating policies and procedures that will save time and money. Taken together, these benefits offer unmatched best-value solutions to the Commission for this contract since there is no learning curve to overcome.

Our Commitment We are committed to delivering our professional consulting services to you in a responsive, competent, and cost-effective manner. We’re not only qualified, but we’re passionate about helping you achieve your goals.

Our mission is to exceed your expectations.

We sincerely appreciate the opportunity to present our Statement of Qualifications. Our Team is enthusiastic about the opportunity to work together and maintain a long-term working relationship. We look forward to presenting our ideas for assisting the Commission with its water, wastewater and reclaimed water goals, ultimately helping you better serve your customers.

Please contact me should you have any specific questions regarding this proposal package.

Sincerely, Stantec Consulting Services Inc.

Stantec Consulting Services Inc.

4798 New Broad Street, Suite 100

Orlando, Florida, 32814-6436

Sergio Hoyos, PE Project Manager – Senior Wastewater Engineer

(941) 907-6900 sergio.hoyos@stantec.com

Hal Schmidt, PE, BCEE Facility Operations – Regional Practice Leader, Wastewater

(813) 204-3317 harold.schmidt@stantec.com

UTILITIES COMMISSION

CITY OF NEW SMYRNA BEACH, FLORIDA

200 CANAL STREET

P.O. BOX 100

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, FL 32170-010

RSQ 10-22

CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

A Copy of This Signed Form Must Accompany Your Proposal

Acknowledgment of Receipt of Addenda No. 1

Company_______________________________________

Title___________________________________________

Signature_______________________________________

Stantec Consulting Services Inc.

Facility Operations – Regional Practice Leader, Wastewater

1. QUALIFICATIONS 1

2. CONSULTANT’S UNDERSTANDING 9

3. STAFFING 17

Organization Chart 18

Resumes for Key Personnel 19

4. LOCATION 49

5. FINANCIAL STABILITY/INSURANCE/OCCUPATIONAL LICENSE 51

Financial Stability 51

Insurance 52

Occupational License 53

6. REFERENCES 55

7. PAST PROJECT PERFORMANCE 57

Table of Contents

1. Qualifications

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We Design With Community In Mind

Stantec Consulting Services Inc. will be the primary contact for any that is awarded under this continuing professional services contract. We have been in business for the past 65+ years, providing professional consulting services in planning, engineering, architecture, landscape architecture, environmental sciences, project management, and project economics for infrastructure and facilities projects. Our services are offered through more than 22,000 employees operating out of more than 400 locations. With a long-term commitment to the people and places we serve, Stantec has the unique ability to connect to projects on a personal level and advance the quality of life in communities across the globe.

Stantec is one of the world’s leading firms for capital improvements and rehabilitation utility related projects with experience in the water and wastewater sector. At Stantec, our in-depth planning, design and construction experience affords us capabilities that are not easily matched by our peers. We are experts in delivering design and construction concurrently on multiple, ongoing capital projects of varying size, scope, and complexity, as evidenced by our experience in managing planning, design, and construction of more than 100 large capital projects over the last 40-years.

Many of our projects were delivered on either an on-call or task order basis. In fact, Stantec has completed thousands of task orders involving water, wastewater, and reclaimed water facilities in just the past 10-years. The task orders have involved the planning, permitting, design and construction of projects that have included groundwater supply development for surficial and Floridan aquifers, water treatment, storage tanks, high service pump stations, collection, distribution, and transmission systems, pump stations, wastewater treatment, reclaimed water projects. These contracts are each unique and require an understanding of our clients requirements and approach to project delivery. They also necessitate a full-service, multi-disciplinary team that can mobilize quickly with the staffing and resources to handle concurrent multiple assignments. Seamless integration of client and consultant staff is also required to create a collaborative team that enables on-budget and on-schedule completion of each task order. Our qualifications and experience is further quantified in Sections 6 and 7 of this submittal.

65 Years in Business

Offices in Florida

Engineering, Planning, Financial Management, and Field Staff in Florida

Stantec’s Rankings and Qualifications We measure success by the positive impact to community. We’re driven to seek what is next. To challenge ourselves and our clients to create solutions that solve challenges today—and give them a competitive edge in the future. Nothing great ever happens by accident. Or in isolation.

Great things happen when smart people get together—and are guided by their imagination and ambition to achieve real-world goals. Here’s how we rank amongst peer organizations, nationally and internationally.

As a Top 10 global design firm, Stantec is at the forefront of the A/E industry’s best practices in water, wastewater and reclaimed water.

Stantec’s role is to empower leadership in the people and communities we serve with solutions and strategies that bring about a better tomorrow through sustainable and intelligent business and technical design.

Stantec currently serves as a continuing professional engineering consultant to over 250 utility systems throughout the United States, and 35 here in Florida. What this means to you is that you’ll benefit from first-hand experience with projects similar to yours.

Given the bench-strength and expertise, our Team is structured to benefit the Commission by allowing for one primary contact for all work assignments.

Water touches every part of life in a community. Stantec delivers solutions for water and wastewater treatment, and water resources projects that minimize cost and maximize the sustainability of the resource. Working throughout the hydrologic cycle, our team optimizes all of a community’s water interactions.

Top 10 International Design Firms By Market - Water | ENR August

Top 20 Design Firms by Sector - Water | ENR April 2021

Top Most Sustainable Corporations in North America | Corporate Knights (2021)

Top 20 Environmental Firms by Market Segment - Water Treatment/Supply | ENR July 2021

#2

#6

#1

#8

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Water, Wastewater and Reclaimed Water Facilities

Stantec is at the forefront of responsible use and management of groundwater resources in a sustainable manner. Stantec’s work in the field of water supply and treatment includes designing more than 1,000 water treatment plants ranging in capacity from 0.25 MGD to over 1 BGD. Stantec’s full range of in-house disciplines that include both engineers, hydrogeologists and scientists.

We regularly perform bench and on-site pilot testing, groundwater and process modeling, assessments, aquifer testing, and plan, permit and design treatment facilities. We are at the forefront of responsible use and management of groundwater resources in a sustainable manner. We are a global leader in water treatment with extensive experience in all water treatment technologies and unit processes as shown in Table 1.

Table 1 - Stantec’s Water Treatment Technologies and Process Experience

Advanced Oxidation Dissolved Air Flotation Pilot/Treatability Studies

Air/Water Backwash Systems Conventional and High-Rate Filtration UV Disinfection

Alternative Disinfection/Chloramination Ion Exchange Disinfection By-Products Control

Ballasted Flocculation Membrane Filtration (MF/UF/NF/RO) Water Quality Assessment

Biological Aerated Filters Operational Control and SCADA Water Source Development

Conventional Treatment Processes Operations Evaluation/Optimization Lamella Settling

Stantec engineers have designed water reclamation facilities around the globe, ranging in size from 0.25-MGD to more than 800-MGD. Our experience encompasses conventional and advanced treatment facilities, residuals management and handling, and fit-for-purpose water reuse. We have expertise in all facets of wastewater gas, liquid and solids handling and treatment— ranging from conventional for organic removal to complex nutrient removal/ resource recovery processes covering compliance evaluations to turnkey delivery of completely operational facilities. Stantec engineers are experienced in evaluating and designing all conventional and state-of-the-art processes for wastewater treatment, biosolids processing and reclaimed water facilities as shown in Table 2.

Table 2 - Stantec’s Water Reclamation Technologies and Process Experience

Aerobic and Anaerobic Digestion

Direct and Indirect Potable Reuse Odor Control Pilot/Treatability Studies and Analyses

Alternative Disinfection Direct and Solar Drying Operational Control/

SCADA

Process Modeling and Analysis (BioWin and GPSx)

Biogas Utilization and Management

Electrical Cogeneration Utilizing Biogas

Operations Evaluation/ Optimization Screening and Grit Removal

Biological Aerated Filters Energy and Process Management Ozone/BAC Storage and Management of

Reclaimed Water

Biological Nutrient Removal Fit for Purpose Reclaimed Water PFAS Removal Temperature-Phased

Digestion

Thickening and Dewatering Membrane Bioreactors Phosphorus Recovery Thermal Hydrolysis Pretreatment and Digestion

Pure Water Program (Direct Potable Reuse), San Diego, CA

Reverse Osmosis Water Treatment Plant Upgrade, Venice, FL

Pumping Stations

Stantec has significant experience with designing water, stormwater, and wastewater pumping stations with capacities less than 0.1-MGD and as large as 969-MGD. Pumping systems usually represent the largest single energy demand for the overall supply. Stantec’s mechanical and electrical engineers have field-tested expertise in all types of pumps and motors, and variable frequency drives to reduce overall power demands. Related services include pump station layout/siting, pump sizing, pump repair, structural analysis, hydraulic and transient analyses, liquid and vapor odor control, noise control, harmonic analysis, traffic control, architectural treatments, and design of electrical substations.

Sanitary Sewer Collection System

Planning, designing, and constructing wastewater conveyance and storage systems are another core of Stantec services. More importantly, we understand how to integrate these various project elements into a single functioning system.

Our field-tested, multi-disciplinary team of engineers and construction staff carefully review the design and constructability objectives of each system to identify hydraulic, geotechnical, and environmental challenges and constraints.

We then develop well-defined plans for providing capacity while managing cost, schedules, risk, and potential disruption to the community.

Our Team brings significant experience with routing, designing, and construction in similarly challenging terrain, including heavily-trafficked urban areas and sites with contaminated soils. Our experience includes septic to sewer, hydraulic modeling, subsurface investigations, ground condition characterization, alternative alignment development, detailed design, construction contract administration, and risk management. Beyond the technical requirements of sewer conveyance, we excel at the non-technical aspects of collection system engineering, including careful strategic planning of the pipeline alignment to ensure successful permitting and community support; value engineering to get the most out of every dollar spent; and integration into other ongoing projects.

Water Distribution and Transmission System & Reuse Water Line System

Similar to our wastewater pipeline experience, we are also experienced in all phases of water pipeline projects from planning, route analysis, preliminary and detailed design and construction to start-up and commissioning. We offer a wealth of experience in this area, having assisted clients in extending or replacing water and transmission mains ranging in size from 6 to greater than 60 inches in diameter. Stantec offers necessary engineering expertise for providing proper analysis and sound raw, potable, and recycled water pipeline design solutions to address challenges involving hydraulic analysis, route alignment, surveying and mapping, geotechnical services, materials selection, cost efficiency and risk issues, corrosion control strategies, surge analysis and mitigation, right of way and land acquisition, detailed civil and mechanical design, analysis of soil-structure interaction associated with corrosive soils in coastal regions of the state, constructability reviews, value engineering, and construction management. We’ve worked on all types of pipeline designs—including open-cut and trenchless—as well as soft ground and hard rock tunneling.

Construction Management/Engineering Services During Construction

We’ve provided third-party construction management services for thousands of wet infrastructure projects in the southeast. Our success in construction management comes from establishing effective communication among project participants, resolving issues quickly, rigorous budget and schedule monitoring, prioritizing the Owner’s interests. Once

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Stantec employs over 50 construction inspectors across the company with water and wastewater treatment and conveyance expertise. Our in-depth knowledge of construction standards and specifications affords us the ability to staff contracts of all sizes. Stantec has outstanding construction engineering inspections (CEI) credentials performing all aspects of construction oversight and start-up services.

Value Added and Specialized Services

At Stantec we care about the communities we serve — because they are our communities too. We bring this value to our projects nationally and globally everyday. When we say community, we mean everybody with a stake in the work we do – from the clients we collaborate with across many sectors, to the populations we reach, to the thousands of us working together to serve them. With tailored specific approaches to each community we serve, we understand the importance of thinking outside the box and capitalizing on energizing our core resources with value-added and specialized services.

We pride ourselves in adding value to our clients’ mission and objectives. As the Commission confronts future challenges such as continued population growth, additional service area, aging infrastructure, regulatory changes, and resiliency issues, Stantec would like to partner with you to contribute innovative solutions and collaborative ideas to help confront these challenges. Below, we outline some examples of how we believe Stantec can bring added value to the Commission.

1. Relationships with Regulators and Regional and National Organizations Through decades of working on wastewater treatment projects in the region, our Stantec staff including both Sergio and Hal have developed strong relationships with regulators from the FDEP and USEPA, as well as local permitting authorities.

This decades of regulatory experience and understanding of the state, federal and local permitting process will ensure that your project permit applications are complete, and received on schedule. Stantec will leverage these relationships to not only create efficiencies in delivering projects, but also in helping you understand upcoming regulatory requirements.

In addition to our relationships with local regulators and regional associations, Stantec is a proud partner, supporter and active participant in national water industry associations including the American Water Works Association, National Association of Clean Water Agencies, the Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies, the US Water Alliance, the Water Research Foundation, the WateReuse Association, the Water Environment Federation, and The Mayors Water Council. We know that public policy and research in the Water Industry will have a significant impact on the future of clean water in the United States and Stantec believes as an industry leader it is our duty to actively support these efforts. Through our association with these important organizations, Stantec will provide the Commission with information learned and ideas and concepts developed by similar utilities throughout the country.

2. Research Stantec aims to be on the leading edge of water/wastewater treatment technologies so we’re ready to bring our clients solutions to the problems of the future. Our company has a formal strategic alliance with the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Bloomberg School of Public Health. This alliance, held within the School’s Water Institute, provides our offices and clients around the world with access to an unprecedented academic knowledge base, experience, and laboratory capabilities. We collaborate with our clients and universities, vendors, and research foundations with a focus on:

� water-energy sustainability during treatment optimization.

� best management practices for contaminants of emerging concern.

� third party technology evaluations and certifications.

� resource recovery.

� water reuse solutions.

� process intensification.

Stantec has conducted 54 research projects funded by the Water Research Foundation. Since last June, our Stantec team is involved in eight active WRF research projects. Our resources include bench-, pilot-, and demonstration-scale equipment and facilities that allow us to conduct laboratory and/ or field studies as part of assessments for clients around the world.

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3. GIS Application Support Whether you’re siting building locations, collecting utility data, or making process improvements, you need to collect ever-increasing amounts of data.

We have a focused approach for helping you manage this information. We work closely with you to understand your unique workflows and use technology and geospatial solutions to help you meet your business and data management requirements. High-efficiency standardization and automation, centralization, greater accessibility, and reduced costs are the key elements of our strategy.

Leading all this is our team of 47 certified Geographic Information System (GIS) Professionals in the Jacksonville and Southeastern United States.

Experienced in enterprise data management, systems integration, custom online applications, and mobile data solutions, our experts have developed methods to access BIM data through intuitive interfaces and integrate it with GIS where appropriate. Together, we can support your organization throughout the entire GIS development life cycle—early planning and conceptualization stages, system design and development, and full implementation.

4. Asset Management Services Stantec brings global thought leadership from the early days of asset management framework development to the present. We were involved in the original publication of the most widely adopted asset management guide that formed the basis of the EPA’s “Asset Management: A Guide to Best Practice (2008)” and WERF’s “SIMPLE” toolset, which was also collaboratively developed by Stantec. Our asset management team utilizes leading practices that have helped our utility and municipal clients throughout the world effectively manage their assets. By leveraging global leading practices and through a broad-based evaluation and strategy alignment, people, processes, data, and technology, Stantec is adept at determining the best next steps to enhance organizational capabilities and achieve tangible quick-win improvements. Stantec also brings expertise in other critical areas, such as criticality and condition assessment, reliability, maintenance strategies, total cost of ownership (TOTEX), financial analysis, business process, operations and maintenance consulting, predictive analytics, business intelligence, and organizational change management.

BETTER

OUTCOMES

Efficient and compliant operations

Enhanced customer experience

Sustainable watersheds

Resilient, reliable, and secure infrastructure

Empowered and safe workforce

Affordable and optimized investments

Aging Infrastructure

Affordability and

Funding Uncertainty

Cyber and Information security

Climate Change Impacts

Aging workforce and Labor Scarcity

Public sentiment and political pressures

Emergency and Crisis

Emerging contaminants and regulatory uncertainty

Utility challenges

D I G I T A L T O O L S

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BETTER

OUTCOMES

Efficient and compliant operations

Enhanced customer experience

Sustainable watersheds

Resilient, reliable, and secure infrastructure

Empowered and safe workforce

Affordable and optimized investments

Aging Infrastructure

Affordability and

Funding Uncertainty

Cyber and Information security

Climate Change Impacts

Aging workforce and Labor Scarcity

Public sentiment and political pressures

Emergency and Crisis

Emerging contaminants and regulatory uncertainty

Utility challenges

D I G I T A L T O O L S

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5. Modeling Services - Hydraulic Stantec has extensive expertise in water distribution and hydraulic modeling services. Our modeling team’s experience also includes water and sewer system modelings, computational fluid dynamic modeling, and other advanced hydraulic modeling for stations and transient analyses. Our recent work with the Commission in developing your updated water and sewer hydraulic models demonstrates our prowess when solving complex hydraulic issues. We understand that hydraulic models are tools for facilitating the analysis of systems, and not a substitute for good engineering judgment, but with advancing operational models and digital twins, being able to represent systems with a clear understanding of the factors that affect real world system performance are critical to your utility operations. Stantec has a strong track record in system plans to evaluate and mitigate future system capacity requirements; emergency planning;

modeling operational needs and solutions, and supporting capital improvement plans; developing I/I strategies; and advanced hydraulic studies to support designs and investigating operational problems.

6. Modeling Services – Process As your treatment facilities are faced with service area growth and a trend toward more stringent effluent limits there is greater demand to better manage existing assets in order to meet these constraints. Modeling enables utilities to proactively plan and develop capital improvement plans, enable facilities to achieve the required and anticipated levels of treatment while saving both capital and operating costs. Stantec carries several licenses for the two major software packages – BioWin and GPS-X. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling provides detailed information on flow patterns, temperature distribution, chemical mixing, and other important performance parameters. Using CFD modeling, Stantec has cost-effectively helped clients develop new designs, trouble-shoot issues related to existing facilities, and develop remedies and design modifications for improving facility performance.

7. Planning Services Stantec has completed more than 800 master plans, facility planning, and feasibility studies for water, wastewater, and reclaimed water systems throughout the United States, many of which were completed here in Florida. As part of Stantec’s commitment to proactive management, we often apply principles of adaptive management to allow our facility and master plans to be flexible to easily adapt to future financial, political, and regulatory changes. Our experience includes integrated plans that consider the “One Water” concept, the optimization of capital and operational solutions, including, but not limited to strategic planning, service area growth, regulatory trends, operations and process optimization, water supply planning, CIP prioritization, budget reviews, and financing alternatives.

8. Collaborative (Alternative) Delivery of Capital Projects At the outset of any capital project, potential project delivery methods that can be considered include designbid-build (DBB), fixed price design build (FPDB), progressive design build (PDB), and constructionmanagement at risk, and (CMAR).

Variations on these delivery mechanisms may include aspects of operation or financing. Stantec’s alternative delivery of projects (ADP) group has extensive experience evaluating the best delivery method for a particular project. The decision of which delivery model to use is very dependent on the specifics of a project. Each has its own benefits and drawbacks. For example, a PDB or CMAR contract could seek to set a guaranteed maximum price (GMP) early in design (around the 30% design development stage) for some aspects of work to allow an early start of construction while other parts of the project advance in design. When considering which project delivery model will be used, there are additional nuances to consider, such as the possibility of pre-purchasing or pre-selecting of equipment by the Owner. Stantec will provide options, a recommendation, due diligence, and guidance to the Commission in these scenarios so that the selection of the proper delivery mechanism aligns with the project goals.

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9. I&C and Electrical Services Stantec routinely self-performs electrical and I&C engineering design for our projects. Our staff has expertise in voltage ranges from 120V to as high as 750 kV. Our strengths include design; energy audits and value engineering of electrical, control, security, and instrumentation systems; load calculations and studies; plant power distribution (low voltage (LV) and medium voltage (MV)); UPS and emergency power systems, lightning protection and grounding, pumping station power distribution (MV or LV); motor control (MV or LV); lighting design (interior, exterior, roadway); substation design; and power distribution.

We’re also fully experienced with providing support systems and services for fire detection and alarm systems, short circuit and arc flash protection studies, communication and emergency notification systems, harmonic studies and evaluations of existing equipment (e.g., generators, switchgear, grounding, etc.). Our engineering design expertise for water and wastewater utility infrastructure systems can provide the Commission with strong solutions for technical challenges through innovation and experience.

10. BIM Support Whether you’re trying to determine improvements for your operations, looking for a more collaborative construction management process, or building strategies to decrease the likelihood of costly change orders, your Stantec Team can utilize a suite of cutting-edge solutions, so your project is delivered on-time and in the most cost-effective manner possible. Building Information Modeling (BIM) is more than a 3D model, it’s the key to unlocking your building’s potential. Using this powerful technology, we can help you move your project forward, improve your operations, and capitalize on opportunities that would have been previously unachievable. When utilizing Stantec’s BIM services, our clients and project-delivery stakeholders benefit from:

� Improved team collaboration.

� Our experience in Clash Detection with BIM-enabled construction partners.

� 3-D design and coordination of building systems.

� A comprehensive 3-D visualization throughout the design process.

11. Financial Services Stantec’s Financial Services practice has completed thousands of rate studies throughout the United States. Our approach centers our proven interactive decision support process that engages your staff, elected officials, and key stakeholders, and is closely integrated with your master planning, facility planning, and asset management initiatives. We optimize financial planning decisions over multi-year projection periods, explicitly recognizing operating expenses and trends, growth and consumption patterns, alternative capital improvement spending levels—including outcomes of an asset management or master planning process, debt service coverage ratios, levels of operating and capital reserves, and other key financial policies and metrics.

12. Architectural Services Stantec has a history of providing efficient, sustainable designs that maximize the buildings’ performance for the staff who work there. These types of projects have ranged from operations and administration complexes to specific utility buildings that require specialized expertise regarding chemical storage and compatibility, unique equipment design needs, and other opportunities to protect the operational staff, and access to equipment for maintenance and a focus on long term durability. Operations and Laboratory facilities also are a key part of the successful performance of a plant.

Our qualifications are further described in Sections 6 and 7. These two sections will provide you with our experience and a further description of many of the projects that were highlighted with images in this Section.

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2. Consultant’s Understanding

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Project Understanding

For project success, the Stantec Team will partner with the Commission, planning the work, defining the level of service and boundary conditions, integrating other plans and initiatives, exploring options, developing plans/ solutions, all the while facilitating effective communication and documenting decisions.

Our proposed team leaders understand there is a need to balance competing goals and drivers for any of your projects. This will be focused to promote beneficial discussions, develop understanding of concerns and drivers that stakeholders may have, and leveraged to build consensus and promote collaboration. As you have seen from our work in developing the Optimization Plan for the Commission, we focus on looking at your system holistically by defining the planning drivers and potential triggers. This report has provided the Commission with the framework and strategy to improve operations and fiscal management of your utility system.

From the work that we have done for the Commission, we have garnered a keen understanding of your utility system. We have been fortunate to work with the Commission the past 3-years in working closely with your staff to be recognized as a utility of the future. During this 3-year tenure, we have completed a number of projects for you, which have provided us with an insightful understanding of your water, wastewater, and reclaimed water facilities. These projects have included:

� Utility System Optimization Plan � Consulting Engineer’s Report to support the Commission’s $70,510,000 Utility System Revenue Refunding Bonds, Series 2020.

� Triennial Report for your electric, water and wastewater systems.

� Pilot testing of pellet softening and business case evaluation of alternative water treatment options for the water supply, treatment, and distribution of finished water through 2040.

� Hydraulic modeling of your raw and finished water, and wastewater collection and transmission systems.

� Site facility planning to incorporate pellet softening at the Glencoe WTP (on-going).

� Hydraulic modeling training and on-going support (on-going)

A Culture of Innovation

The Commission is an industry leader in innovation within the water and electric spaces, focusing predominantly on leveraging emerging technology to achieve key strategic goals. Many of these were developed in your Optimization Plan for your water, wastewater, and reclaimed water facilities. The Commission and your customers have already realized numerous benefits from this approach, which include more robust performance of processes, reliable compliance with permits, more cost-effective and flexible operations, and highly trained and skilled personnel. It is apparent that the Commission recognizes that these benefits could be leveraged across the entire community it serves.

All of your utility system customers share the expectation that a given level of service provided by the Commission’s operations carries with it some degree of benefit. You recognize that the beneficial stake each “customer” holds in the assets owned and operated by the Commission’s reach beyond bottom-line economics and provide significant inputs to shaping overall quality of environmental and social life within your community. It is evident from the last 3-years working with your staff that the Commission recognizes that a sustainable future for our communities means embracing we refer to as a circular economy. For example, an economy that stems from avoiding and reducing waste, while extracting and recovering resources that are normally overlooked, such as domestic wastewater, stormwater runoff, waste heat, among others. Stantec Team’s Innovation Leadership aligns with the Commission’s Culture of Innovation to inspire infinite ideas that extend the value of finite resources. The graphic on the following page will provide you with the type of work we provide in developing and demonstrating solutions for our client’s challenges.

All of our projects are planned and designed to protect the region’s health and environment by cleaning water and recovering resources.

Key members of our proposed team have spent a great deal of time in the past 3-years listening and working with the commission in developing a vision for your utility. As such, we will provide the level of professional services that will ensure our work firmly establishes this vision and can assist the commission in enabling its implementation.

FEATURED PROJECTS

Developing and demonstrating solutions for our clients’ challenges

WATER REASEARCH SERVICES

DEVELOP

ENERGY AND

INFRASTRUCTURE

ASSET

SUSTAINABILITY

SOLUTIONS

ASSURE WATER

QUALITY

FOR PUBLIC

HEALTH AND

ENVIRONMENTAL

SUSTAINABILITY

DEMONSTRATE

VERIFIED

TECHNOLOGY

SOLUTIONS

FOR OUR

CLIENTS

ACHIEVE

FIT-FOR-PURPOSE

TOTAL WATER

SOLUTIONS

OneOne WaterWater

SolutionsSolutions

4 2

Our Research focuses on identification and verification of innovative methodologies, practices, and technologies for sustainable solutions in concert with a One Water paradigm.

DEVELOP ENERGY AND INFRASTRUCTURE ASSET

SUSTAINABILITY SOLUTIONS

• Battery storage system guidance for water and wastewater utilities Water Research Foundation

• Innovative technologies to manage deteriorating infrastructure Water Research Foundation

• Managing water and wastewater utility data to reduce energy consumption and cost Water Research Foundation

• California’s in-conduit hydropower implementation guidebook: A compendium of resources, best practices and tools California Energy Commission

• Evaluation of natural gas to reduce carbon footprint and energy costs for desalination WateReuse Research Foundation

• Water and wastewater utility energy research roadmap Water Research Foundation

• Drinking water pump station design and operation for energy efficiency Water Research Foundation

• Optimization of energy and water quality management systems for drinking water utilities Water Research Foundation

• Water footprints and the value of water: New concepts for sustainable water utilities and communities Water Research Foundation

ASSURE WATER QUALITY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH

AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

• Evaluation of potential nutrient impacts related to water reuse Water Research Foundation

• Developing tools for surface water nutrient loading attributable to reclaimed water Water Research Foundation

• State-of-science on perchlorate treatment technologies and regulations Water Research Foundation

• Performance evaluation of reverse osmosis for mining water treatment Kinross Gold

• Impact of reductant blending with reserve osmosis permeate for in-situ chromium treatment Honeywell

• Ion exchange and cost estimate for removal of nitrogen and sulfate from mining water Newmont Metallurgical Technologies

• Inactivation of norovirus with peracetic acid and monchloramine in secondary wastewater effluent Metropolitan Wastewater Reclamation District (Denver)

ACHIEVE FIT-FOR-PURPOSE TOTAL WATER

SOLUTIONS

• Standard methods for integrity testing and on-line monitoring of NF and RO membranes Water Research Foundation

• Development of disinfection guidelines for satellite water recycling facilities Water Research Foundation

• Drivers, successes, challenges and opportunities for onsite industrial water reuse Water Research Foundation

• Evaluation of ozone oxidation/ disinfection for tertiary wastewater treatment Clark County Water Reclamation District

• Evaluation of beneficial reuse and resource recovery for reverse osmosis concentrate Sandia National Laboratories

• Treatment of high salinity groundwater in the United Arab Emirates

MASDAR

DEMONSTRATE VERIFIED TECHNOLOGY

SOLUTIONS FOR OUR CLIENTS

• Evaluation of innovative biogel encapsulation technology for nitrification Hitachi Ltd.

• California Department of Public Health low pressurized membrane and MBR approval testing Twenty-eight systems for various vendors

• Removal of ammonia and nitrate by innovative biological treatment technology City of Hallandale, Florida

• Evaluation of membrane-based processes for treatment of mining water from copper pits Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold

• Evaluation of innovative concentrate management technologies for brackish water desalination Desalination Research Innovation Partnership

• Optimization of mining wastewater pretreatment technologies Cerro Verde, Peru

• Evaluation of granular activated carbon filtration for water treatment City of West Palm Beach, Florida

• Pretreatment assessment of coal-seam gas brine for resource recovery Origin Energy

FEATURED PROJECTS

Developing and demonstrating solutions for our clients’ challenges

WATER REASEARCH SERVICES

DEVELOP

ENERGY AND

INFRASTRUCTURE

ASSET

SUSTAINABILITY

SOLUTIONS

ASSURE WATER

QUALITY

FOR PUBLIC

HEALTH AND

ENVIRONMENTAL

SUSTAINABILITY

DEMONSTRATE

VERIFIED

TECHNOLOGY

SOLUTIONS

FOR OUR

CLIENTS

ACHIEVE

FIT-FOR-PURPOSE

TOTAL WATER

SOLUTIONS

OneOne WaterWater

SolutionsSolutions

4 2

Our Research focuses on identification and verification of innovative methodologies, practices, and technologies for sustainable solutions in concert with a One Water paradigm.

DEVELOP ENERGY AND INFRASTRUCTURE ASSET

SUSTAINABILITY SOLUTIONS

• Battery storage system guidance for water and wastewater utilities Water Research Foundation

• Innovative technologies to manage deteriorating infrastructure Water Research Foundation

• Managing water and wastewater utility data to reduce energy consumption and cost Water Research Foundation

• California’s in-conduit hydropower implementation guidebook: A compendium of resources, best practices and tools California Energy Commission

• Evaluation of natural gas to reduce carbon footprint and energy costs for desalination WateReuse Research Foundation

• Water and wastewater utility energy research roadmap Water Research Foundation

• Drinking water pump station design and operation for energy efficiency Water Research Foundation

• Optimization of energy and water quality management systems for drinking water utilities Water Research Foundation

• Water footprints and the value of water: New concepts for sustainable water utilities and communities Water Research Foundation

ASSURE WATER QUALITY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH

AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

• Evaluation of potential nutrient impacts related to water reuse Water Research Foundation

• Developing tools for surface water nutrient loading attributable to reclaimed water Water Research Foundation

• State-of-science on perchlorate treatment technologies and regulations Water Research Foundation

• Performance evaluation of reverse osmosis for mining water treatment Kinross Gold

• Impact of reductant blending with reserve osmosis permeate for in-situ chromium treatment Honeywell

• Ion exchange and cost estimate for removal of nitrogen and sulfate from mining water Newmont Metallurgical Technologies

• Inactivation of norovirus with peracetic acid and monchloramine in secondary wastewater effluent Metropolitan Wastewater Reclamation District (Denver)

ACHIEVE FIT-FOR-PURPOSE TOTAL WATER

SOLUTIONS

• Standard methods for integrity testing and on-line monitoring of NF and RO membranes Water Research Foundation

• Development of disinfection guidelines for satellite water recycling facilities Water Research Foundation

• Drivers, successes, challenges and opportunities for onsite industrial water reuse Water Research Foundation

• Evaluation of ozone oxidation/ disinfection for tertiary wastewater treatment Clark County Water Reclamation District

• Evaluation of beneficial reuse and resource recovery for reverse osmosis concentrate Sandia National Laboratories

• Treatment of high salinity groundwater in the United Arab Emirates

MASDAR

DEMONSTRATE VERIFIED TECHNOLOGY

SOLUTIONS FOR OUR CLIENTS

• Evaluation of innovative biogel encapsulation technology for nitrification Hitachi Ltd.

• California Department of Public Health low pressurized membrane and MBR approval testing Twenty-eight systems for various vendors

• Removal of ammonia and nitrate by innovative biological treatment technology City of Hallandale, Florida

• Evaluation of membrane-based processes for treatment of mining water from copper pits Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold

• Evaluation of innovative concentrate management technologies for brackish water desalination Desalination Research Innovation Partnership

• Optimization of mining wastewater pretreatment technologies Cerro Verde, Peru

• Evaluation of granular activated carbon filtration for water treatment City of West Palm Beach, Florida

• Pretreatment assessment of coal-seam gas brine for resource recovery Origin Energy

11Utilities Commission,City of New Smyrna Beach, Florida | RSQ 10-22

Managing Demand Services Contracts

The Stantec Team is very familiar with task order assignments under a continuing professional services contract vehicle.

Stantec has specialized management approaches to adapt to multiple concurrent projects. We will continuously improve by collecting feedback from your staff on each assignment to better adapt to the needs of the project and to the infrastructure needs of the Commission. Our approach discussed in this Section is designed to meet your project objectives while actively controlling cost, meeting the project schedule, and producing quality deliverables. Our experience in managing continuing professional services contracts has led to an approach that includes all of our technical resources in one coherent management structure. A clear understanding of this process by all team members is crucial to the project’s overall success.

To streamline the communication between Stantec and the Commission, Sergio Hoyos will serve in the role as Project Manager and will be Stantec’s single main point of contact for this Project. After discussing your project needs with you, he will identify the project team to be assigned to each task order, based on individual expertise and skills, who will assume the responsibility to complete the technical tasks on-schedule and on-budget.