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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMemo - City Manager's ApprovalCITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM TO: Daniel J. Alfonso City Manager Mark Spanioli, P.E. Director Capital Improvements & Transportation Program (CITP) DATE: January 12, 2015 FILE: SUBJECT: Miscellaneous Environmental Engineering Services Contract Capacity Increase - Stearns, Conrad, and Schmidt Consulting Engineers ENCLOSURES FINDING: SCS is one of three (3) environmental engineering consultants selected under the Miscellaneous Environmental Engineering Services contract ("Contract") --issued pursuant to Request for Qualifications No. 10-11-045 to provide comprehensive environmental services to include detailed facility assessment, geotechnical, surveying, and ongoing compliance monitoring and reporting on behalf of the City of Miami. At the onset of the Contract commencement, the City of Miami maintained an established list of nineteen (19) active environmental compliance projects with an estimated $2.05 million budgeted for the evaluation and development of strategic remediation and monitoring plans. Since execution of the Contract, Miami has experienced a significant increase in the discovery of additional contaminated publicly owned lands, in particular at former landfill sites that have been converted for use as public parks. As of the writing of this memorandum, the City now has twenty-eight (28) active environmental compliance projects and anticipates that additional public lands may eventually be placed onto the list of active environmental compliance projects as new contaminants are discovered on public lands by way of the existing site assessment program currently underway citywide. Additionally, this existing Contract is set to expire in August 2015; a new solicitation is expected to be issued to handle future environmental compliance projects. There is a need to increase capacity under the Contract and additionally to increase the capacity for each contractor selected under the Contract to be able to complete the existing list of environmental compliance projects and to secure the "No Further Action" approval from the Miami -Dade Department of Environmental and Resource Management ("DERM"). BACKGROUND: At present, the total estimated cost to remediate all known contaminated public lands within the City of Miami is estimated at $10 million, The current capacities allocated under the Miscellaneous Environmental Engineering Services is capped at $2.5 million and is insufficient to complete the environmental review, assessment and strategic remediation plan for the approved list of contaminated project sites. Additionally, capacity increases are sought to accommodate the estimated project sites with potential environmental compliance issues yet to be discovered, to provide accessible funds to timely address and conduct needed assessments, and to develop mitigation strategies and plan of action. The estimated cost for the evaluation and the development of strategic remediation and monitoring plans for the newly added nine project sites inclusive of the projected costs associated with the funding for additional anticipated remediation planning and monitoring is estimated at $4.5 million or approximately 45% of the total estimated remediation cleanup cost. The proposed capacity increases contemplated under the Miscellaneous Environmental Engineering Services contract is larger for SCS than the remaining two select vendors due to the complexities of the environmental concerns of the newly added projects, which largely constitutes public park lands that were previous landfill sites, and SCS's experience in handling such cases. SCS experience in providing comprehensive environmental services on landfill projects is well documented. The firm has completed over 100 such landfill project in just calendar year 2014 alone. SCS also has extended resources enabling it to mobilize statewide resources to complete inspections of 100 parks within the City of Miami in just two weeks providing for project costs savings to the benefit of the City. SCS has consistently proposed methods to the City for approval by DERM that have been readily accepted and approved by DERM resulting in additional cost savings for the City. In particular, SCS has developed a protocol to streamline assessment of contaminated park sites which has become the standard approach for all park assessment-- approved by DERM-- and which has resulted in costs savings to the City of Miami. CITP finds it beneficial to utilize SCS as lead consultant to handle the new cases of contaminated public park lands in a timely manner, and to prioritize mitigation plans for the remediation of contaminated parks lands of significant size --such as the 10 acre Douglas Park and the 25 acre Curtis Park-- which shall require an extensive landfill remediation and compliance monitoring plan; and further to maintain existing cost saving approaches currently realized by the City. Approved: Oniel J. An'so, s y Manager Funding: Increase capacity by $1,000,000 from the current capacity of $1,500,000 for a total amount to not exceed $2, 500, 000. cc: Alice N. Bravo, P.E.; Deputy City Manager/Chief of Infrastructure CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS AND TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM MISCELLANEOUS ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING SERVICES CONTRACT COMPLIANCE PROJECT LIST AS OF "JANUARY 2015" COUNT COMPLIANCE PROJECT NAME PROPERTY TYPE ADDRESS FILE ID# 1 City of Miami Fire Rescue Training Center COMMERCIAL 3900 Thomas Ave UT-3786 2 Area Wide. Regional Assessment —Incinerator N/A Grove -Gables HWR-768 3 Blanche Park PARK 3045 Shipping Ave HWR-767 4 Merrie Christmas Park (5 acres) PARK 4355 SW 42 Ave HWR-770 5 Fern Isle Park PARK 2201 NW 11 Street SW-1475 6 Grapeland Park PARK 1550 NW 37 Ave HWR-594 7 Melreese PARK 1550 -1800 NW 37 Ave AW-284 8 Jose Marti Park PARK 362 SW 4 Street HWR-545 9 City of Miami Right of Way ROW 5520 NE 4th Ave UT-4631 10 St. Augustine Villas RESIDENTIAL 1919 NW 15 Ave HWR-557 11 City Hall Northeast Lawn BUSINESS 3500 Pan American Dr HWR-686 12 Virginia Key Composting Facility COMMERCIAL 3701 Rickenbacker Cswy SW-1105 13 Historic Filling Station BUSINESS 801 Biscayne Blvd. HWR-690 14 City of Miami Property at Watson Island VACANT LAND 980 MacArthur Causeway UT-3264 HWR-663 15 Curtis Park (25 acre) PARK 1901 NW 24th Ave HWR-777 16 Billy Rolle PARK 3400 Grand Avenue HWR-778 17 Southside Park (2 Y acre) PARK 140-142 SW 11 Street HWR-779 18 Marlins Ballpark STADIUM 1600 NW 7 Street UT-6793 19 Douglas Park (10 acres) PARK 2795 SW 37 Ave HWR-773 20 Regatta Park Site VACANT LAND — FUTURE PARK 2700 5, Bayshore Drive HWR- 776/UT- 1623 21 Bayfront Park PARK 301 Biscayne Blvd HWR-784 22 Museum Park PARK 1075 Biscayne Blvd HWR-691 UT-3886 23 Shamrock Station VACANT LAND 6200 NW 17 Ave UT-1854 24 Star Station VACANT LAND 1199 NW 62' Street UT-1006 25 Coleman Station VACANT LAND WITH ABANDONED STRUCTURE 5329 NW 17 Ave UT-1031 26 Former Convention Center GSA area VACANT LAND Pan American Drive UT-1623 27 St. Guadens Rd, —Dupont Mansion ROW 3500 St, Gaudens Rd HWR-763 28 Armbrister Park PARK 4000 Grand Avenue HWR-805