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SUBJECT: DESIGN OF SANTA ANA PAAL CENTER ADA RESTROOM IMPROVEMENTS To: Michelle Cabanas & Gabriela Lomeli, October 26th, 2022 We are pleased to submit our qualifications and fee proposal in response to RFP 22-104 for the Santa Ana PAAL Center ADA Restrooms Improvements project. We have visited this facility and thoroughly understand its ADA compliance issues at the restrooms. BOAArchitecture has enjoyed over60 years of continuous practice. We are a very stable corporation with 6 employees that specializes in ADA Compliance design project for municipalities. If BOA is successful in renovating municipal facilities and being awarded this project, our workload is that we can begin work immediately and do everything within our resources to meet your schedule and collaborate with you to meet your construction budget, and resolve ADA Compliance needs. Our firm has completed the design of more than two thousand (2000) municipal type architectural design projects for over 80 different local cities and governmental agencies and BOA is intimately aware of expediting these types of projects. Of specific interest to you is that BOA has completed over 400 recent municipal design projects for the sole purpose of ADA Compliance. More importantly BOA has completed the design of over 50 Community Centers, 10 Teen Counters and 11 dedicated Senior Centers. Many of these projects are facilities ADA improvement projects very similar to the requested services at your project. ADA compliance and facility modernization projects in the $30,000 to $3,000,000 construction cost range are our firm's expertise and our competitive advantage. Our staff expertise and production systems are geared for these often "messy renovation/ and retrofit projects. We recently completed the facilities ADA compliance design, and construction administration for Backs Community Center restrooms and access ramp for the City of Placentia, as well as assisted the City of Irvine to renovate 3 Community Centers and 1 Senior Center for ADA Compliance including all restrooms. Among other restroom ADA Compliance projects designed by BOA include the Cities of Long Beach, Cypress, Anaheim, Redlands, Alhambra, Rosemead, El Segundo, Hawthorne, Huntington Beach, Tustin and La Puente. Overall, the proposed project is needed very much and will prove to be a great asset to the PAAL community and its staff, especially those who are disabled and elderly that will be using your facility. We feel BOAArchitecture and its Design Team are most qualified for this project. We believe our project team can best provide the requested services for the following reasons: • We Understand the Project We understand restroom ADA Compliance, police and municipal facilities design projects. Our previous ADA Compliance design experience in working with the Cities of Irvine, Anaheim, Cypress, Long Beach, Torrance, Newport Beach, Costa mesa, Redlands, Stanton, Los Angeles, Huntington Beach, San Bernardino County, Riverside County, LA County, Orange County, and many other municipalities in Southern California, coupled with our existing knowledge of working on similar ADA compliance projects and our experience in designing 50 Community Centers and a multitude of restroom renovations, will be a definite asset. We are also keenly aware of Federal ADA Guidelines and State Code Requirements for compliance with Title 24 as they pertain specifically to your project.