HomeMy WebLinkAboutWaiver MemoCITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA
INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
TO: Carlos A. Migoya DATE: July 7, 2010 FILE:
City Manager
SUBJECT: Waiver of Competitive Bidding
Procedures: Authorization for work
and an Agreement to Bureau
Veritas North America, Inc.
FROM: Alice N. Bravo, P.E., Director REFERENCES: Stadium Site Parking Project
Capital Improvements Program B-30648
ENCLOSURES:
RECOMMENDATION
In order to ensure health safety a Health and Human Risk Assessment and Soil Management
Plan Preparation and Implementation Services were determined to be required for the Stadium
Site Parking Project (Project).
In the interest of maintaining continuity of work, to avoid undue additional costs, it was
determined to be in the City's best interest to request Bureau Veritas North America, Inc. (Bureau
Veritas) perform the work.
It was not practicable or advantageous for the City of Miami to utilize competitive sealed bidding
procedures to procure these services given their importance to ensuring health safety and in
consideration of the Project schedule.
We recommend that the City Commission concur to waive the formal requirements set forth in the
Code of the City of Miami, as amended, in Section 18-85, and affirm and adopt these findings, in
order to authorize the additional work and authorize an agreement with Bureau Veritas for the
remaining work.
BACKGROUND
The City of Miami (City), Miami -Dade County and the Florida Marlins, LP executed a Baseball
Stadium Agreement on March 3, 2008, outlining the general terms and conditions under which
the parties would design, develop, construct and operate a Major League Baseball Stadium. The
City is responsible for the design and construction of the surface parking lots and parking
garages.
During the pre -construction phase of the Project it was determined that Human Risk Assessment
and Soil Management Plan Preparation Services are required to identify and provide
recommendations for any potential human health risks to construction workers from potential
exposure to soils compounds on the proposed surface parking lots and parking garages.
Bureau Veritas has been involved in environmental work on location since 2007 as the site was
previously in use for Orange Bowl redevelopment and demolition efforts. The firm has provided
environmental services such as preparation of Phase I, Phase II, Site Assessment Reports and
Site Sampling Reports, and DERM compliance coordination services.
It was determined that it was in the best interest of the City of Miami to award to Bureau Veritas to
provide the required Human Risk Assessment and Soil Management Plan Preparation Services
for the stadium site, in the interest of maintaining continuity of work and to avoid undue
expenditures in the transfer of site -related historical and analytical information.
Task 1 of both the Health and Human Risk Assessment and Soil Management Plan Preparation
proposals, attached as exhibits to the agreement, were thus completed by Bureau Veritas.
The City wishes to enter into an agreement for the remaining tasks, in an amount not to exceed
$126,692.
Formal Commission authorization for both the completed and the remaining tasks are now
required.
Your signature below will signify your concurrence with the
assimilation of these findings as your own justification for
procedures and recommendation to authorize the work and
agreement with Bur V vitas North America, Inc. for the work.
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Approved:
Carlos . Migoya, City Manager
above recommendation and your
the waiver of competitive bidding
to authorize the execution of an