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Submitted To: City of North Miami Beach Statement of Qualifications For: RFQ NO: 2012-10 Continuing Contract for Professional Services Professional Service Industries, Inc. Camila Osorio 7950 N.W. 64th St. Miami, Fl. 33166 (305) 471-7725 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Number A. Cover letter and Executive Summary ------------------------------------------------------1 B. Firm’s understanding and willingness -----------------------------------------------------13 C. Warranty to maintain all required licenses----------------------------------------------14 D. Contract Administrator information -------------------------------------------------------14 E. Form SF 330 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------15 F. Copies of Licenses ------------------------------------------------------------------------------93 G. Signed addenda ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------98 H. Subcontractor plan ----------------------------------------------------------------------------108 June 22, 2012 City of North Miami Beach Attn: Brian K. O’Connor Procurement Management Division 17011 North East 19th Avenue, Room 315 North Miami Beach, Florida 33162 Reference: Continuing Contract for Professional Services RFQ-2012-10-0-2012/MS Dear Selection Committee Members: In response to your request, Professional Service Industries, Inc. (PSI) is pleased to submit this letter of interest and executive summary for the Continuing Contract for Professional Services with the City of North Miami Beach (CNMB). PSI’s track record and experience with municipal clients serves as the foundation to ensure that there will be no learning curve required on a go forward basis. At the same time, the PSI team offers the expertise and knowledge of a national company with dedicated local resources. PSI is a nationally recognized leading Engineering Consulting Firm Incorporated in Delaware in 1972, PSI has organized and developed a large staff of skilled technical and administrative professionals in over 100 offices nationwide, including 10 within Florida, to become one of the largest independent engineering consultant organizations in the United States. Within the last five years, PSI has intelligently managed our workforce to maintain profitability and financial stability while preserving our staff. Currently, PSI employs 2,200 professionals associated to our efficient operations. We understand that the operations of CNMB are essential to the economy of both Miami-Dade County and Florida in general and that significant activities take place year-round attracting new residents, investors and visitors. This in turn places a burden on the City to upgrade and/or put in place new infrastructure to handle the growing needs of the residents. To that end, PSI offers a highly-skilled, multidisciplinary team of professionals with local and national experience providing similar services to public and private sector clients. Our team has the capabilities and availability to undertake this assignment and partnering with the City of North Miami Beach in achieving its goals. We have reviewed the 2011 amendment to the Comprehensive Plan with the intention of understanding the short, mid and long term goals CNMB and also the abilities to match our competitiveness to the needs of CNMB. Our Environmental Consulting Department will be ready for your new and redevelopment efforts, adhering to the Going Green Initiative and Smart Growth North Miami Vision in the implementation of sustainable development efforts, acquisition and protection of natural resources involved in environmentally sensitive land. PSI has established a long term relationship serving the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) on their efforts to preserve our natural resources and wetlands. Our Geotechnical Engineering Department will provide its technical expertise when advising on foundations, drainage systems, street resurfacing projects, road improvement projects as well as the multimodal urban transportation efforts undertaken by the city. Our Construction Materials, Inspections and Roofing Consulting Department will enforce all ASTM standards and other applicable regulations for the Quality Assurance of your construction initiatives. PSI, Inc. – 7950 N.W. 64 Street, Miami, FL 33166 – Phone 305.471.7725 – Fax 305.593.1915 1 PSI maintains a policy of utilizing our current professional staff experience and developing new personnel on a regular basis. Mr. Juan D. Villegas, PE, is based out of our Miami office and shall be our Contract Administrator. Mr. Villegas is the Vice President of the South Florida region; therefore, adding to the team of highly experienced staff located in our Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and Riviera Beach offices. Our testing laboratories are certified by the Construction Materials Engineering Council (CMEC), US Army Corp of Engineers (USACE) and Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT). As part of the requirement to maintain our certifications, our testing laboratory is inspected annually and semi-annually. Included with our response is our firm’s profile, an overview of our qualifications, resumes of our key personnel and a few examples of PSI’s project experience from similar contracts and projects with references. We encourage you to contact our references to gain their first-hand input on our experience and performance on continuing contract assignments. PSI’s commitment to customer service will be reflected through timely, cost-effective services and solutions. Our goal is to not only meet, but exceed your needs and expectations with regard to schedule, budget and quality. We pledge our company-wide resources and expertise to continue to provide you with the highest quality of service and to meet your scheduling requirements. Thank you in advance for your consideration. Please do not hesitate to call us directly in the event that you have any questions or if you require additional information. Sincerely, Professional Service Industries, Inc. Juan D. Villegas, PE Vice President - South Florida Region 2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Professional Service Industries (PSI) is a full-service, Engineering News –Record (ENR) top 100 consulting engineering firm offering a portfolio of services ranging from environmental pre-purchase assessments, hydro/geotechnical engineering, to construction materials testing, non-destructive testing and threshold building inspections. Our extensive personnel resources allow PSI to immediately and effectively respond to the clients’ needs and easily perform any night or weekend work, as well as provide inspection services for simultaneous construction activities. PSI has acquired more than 90 firms in the past 30 years to become an industry leader. PSI’s business structure is divided into five major regions and run by a CEO, COO and President from our corporate office in Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois. Locally, we are a full-service consulting, engineering and testing operation headed by an Executive Vice President, followed by two Senior Vice Presidents and two Vice Presidents overseeing their respective Florida departments. Staff support in areas such as accounting, human resources, and legal service is provided by our corporate headquarters, freeing the local personnel to concentrate on our clients' projects. PSI has provided geotechnical engineering, construction materials testing and inspection, environmental consulting and facilities/roofing services to government agencies in South Florida and surrounding areas for more than 35 years. PSI is a large firm with a tremendous amount of resources. We maintain state of the art calibrated and certified lab and field equipment. In fact, in a support role, PSI’s Orlando facility houses the largest private laboratory in the state, which maintains more certifications that any other lab of its type. PSI’s materials laboratories undergo annual in-depth inspections/audits by the FDOT, CMEC, AASHTO, CCRL and the Army Corps of Engineers. Additionally, we have a rigid in-house program including dedicated staff with the sole function of providing internal quality control over our laboratory and field-testing functions. PSI is one of only a few private labs in Florida that are fully AASHTO R18 accredited and certified by AMRL (AASHTO full-time technical Materials Reference Laboratory) and CCRL. The following sections have been included to outline our experience and demonstrate our qualifications and ability to provide the requested services to the City of North Miami Beach. Geotechnical Services PSI has provided geotechnical design services for a wide array of project types throughout Florida, including: City, County, and State roadway projects, utilities, schools, residential developments, hotels, hospitals, government buildings, high-rises, theme park attractions, communication towers, multi-level parking garages and courthouses. Our geotechnical capabilities include site suitability studies, drilling services (subsurface exploration), foundation design (i.e. shallow foundations, driven piles, drilled shafts, auger cast piles, mat foundations), seasonal high water determinations, groundwater exploration and modeling (i.e. stormwater pond recovery, seepage evaluations, underdrain design, drawdown analyses), retaining wall analyses and design, pavement design, and preparation of earthwork specifications. PSI maintains a large variety of land and marine subsurface exploration equipment along with laboratory and office facilities. We have more than 100 fully