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N <br />TETRATECH <br />November 14, 2019 <br />Submitted via Planet Bid <br />City of Santa Ana <br />Pubic Works Agency <br />215 C. Center Street, Building A <br />Santa Ana, CA 92703 <br />Reference: Engineering Service for Seismic and Structural Assessment of the City's Potable <br />Water Storage Reservoirs; RFP No. 19-105 <br />Ladies and Gentlemen: <br />Tetra Tech is pleased to submit our proposal to provide professional <br />engineering services for Seismic and Structural Assessment of the City's <br />Potable Water Storage Reservoirs in accordance with the provisions <br />contained in the City of Santa Ana's RFP dated October 15, 2019 and <br />Addendum 1, dated November 8, 2019. <br />Tetra Tech is a national leader amongst its peers in water industry. Tetra <br />Tech was ranked as the #1 Water Firm by Engineering News Report <br />(ENR) in their 2018 annual survey (for the 151h year in a row!) of the natic <br />We have a long history of serving the Southern California public water agencies including water districts <br />and municipalities such as yourselves. <br />The Tetra Tech Team can offer the following: <br />Excellent Level of Performance, Responsiveness and Customer Service — The best <br />measurement of the level performance, responsiveness and customer service that we provide is not <br />what we say, but rather what our clients say. A list of our most recent reservoir structural seismic <br />evaluation projects with client contact information is provided in Section e, "Relevant Project <br />Experience." <br />Qualifications and Experience — Our services will be provided entirely from our San Dimas office, <br />where our Structural Engineering Design Center is based, which provides water/wastewater related <br />infrastructure structural engineering services for the southwest portion of the United States for Tetra <br />Tech. Our structural engineering staff includes two California Licensed Structural Engineers <br />(S.E.'s), both with reservoir rehabilitation design experience, all of whom have spent nearly all of their <br />careers with Tetra Tech. Both of these individuals will be assigned to your proiect; they are Mr. Eric <br />Yuen, P.E., S.E., serving as Project Manager (12 years/12 years with Tetra Tech); and Mr. Victor <br />Ramirez, P.E., S.E (37 years/37 years with Tetra Tech) serving as QA/QC Manager. Most importantly, <br />they recently performed a Davit Fall Arrest System Feasibility Study for the City of Santa Ana at all <br />the City's reservoir sites, and they are already familiar with those 7 concrete reservoirs to be <br />evaluated under this RFP. <br />• Relative Past Experience — We have extensive relative past experience in performing on -site <br />investigations/materials sampling/testing and structural seismic evaluation of existing reservoirs and <br />well as experience in the design of new reservoirs. We are currently providing similar services for the <br />Plant 128 Reservoir for Suburban Water Systems and North G/enrose Reservoir for Lincoln Avenue <br />Tetra Tech, Inc. <br />160 E. Via Verde. Suite 200, San Dimas. CA 91773-5121 <br />Tel 909.305. 2930 Fax 909.305.2959 w,. Aetratech.com <br />