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CFirm and Team Experience <br />C.1 PROFILE OF FIRM'S AND TEAM'S EXPERIENCE <br />EEC Environmental (EEC) has successfully completed numerous projects alongside the City of Santa Ana (City) over the <br />last 17 years. We are excited to build off our history of success and continue to grow our relationship further. Throughout <br />the last two years, we have worked side -by -side with the City to tackle emergent and complicated PEAS issues while <br />maintaining the City's sterling reputation of providing award -winning water to its customers. <br />EEC is excited to team with Kennedy/Jenks (KJ) to bolster the breadth of services that EEC provides to the City without <br />sacrificing the highest level of customer service that the City has come to expect from EEC. This EEC and KJ team (EEC <br />Team) is poised and ready to deliver on the full scope of services requested by the City while working in concert to operate <br />as a single, dedicated team to fulfill the City's needs. <br />EEC Environmental is agencies <br />a local, Small Business Enterprise with employees and <br />decades of experience assisting local municipalities and agencies by managing and <br />implementing a long list of water related environmental projects including PFAS treatment <br />ff.jECand consulting. Under our existing on -call contract with the City, EEC has conducted a <br />E N V I R 0 N M E N T A L wide variety of technical services for the Public Works Agency ranging from sewer <br />collection system engineering to as -needed PEAS consulting services. This diverse array ofprojects has allowed us to work <br />closely with different City team members and truly understand the most effective way to support Santa Ana. <br />As demonstrated in the qualifications section of the proposal, EEC has a breadth of experience in all the tasks required by <br />this RFQ including planning studies, feasibility studies, cost estimating, well assessments, wellhead HAS ion exchange <br />treatment design, bidding management, construction management, and PFAS regulatory expertise. <br />Unique PEAS Experience within Santa Ana — EEC has an extensive resume of PFAS projects within the City. EEC has <br />successfully completed or is currently assisting with multiple PFAS related projects, including: 1) Well 40 grading and <br />drainage revisions; 2) HAS treatment system commissioning planning; 3) PFAS waste disposal planning; 4) Wells 27, 28, <br />31. 38, and 40 PFAS treatment system design peer review; 5) PFAS treatment system operator training; 6) Pump to waste <br />planning; and 7) water quality sampling and UCMR5 compliance planning. <br />Kennedy/Jenks Consultants, Inc. (KJ) is a full -service multi -disciplinary engineering consulting fine <br />founded in 1919. With more than 400 professionals throughout the United States, they deliver projects <br />10 of varying sizes and complexity while also providing personalized service. The KJ team has expertise <br />n the broad spectrum of groundwater treatment including an in-depth understanding of the specific <br />Kmnedy k k3 nuances associated with HAS removal, having designed dozens of facilities throughout California. <br />K.l's successful groundwater treatment design projects have included reverse osmosis (RO), granular <br />media and membrane filtration, ion exchange (IX), various desalinization, brine minimization technologies, advanced <br />oxidation processes, and granular activated carbon (GAC) for treatment of a wide range of parameters, such as PFAS, TDS, <br />iron, manganese, boron, nitrate, Perchlorate, 1,2,3-TCP, hexavalent chromium, and arsenic. The ability to evaluate pilot <br />study data, provide guidance and technical support, ability to provide recommendations and system integration based on <br />existing conditions, and the ability to propose cost-effective improvements that can be reasonably designed, QA/QC, cost <br />control, and constructed within a short time frame are addressed in the below sections. <br />Unique PEAS Experience within Southern California — KJ has three dedicated HAS design teams in Irvine, San Diego, <br />and Pasadena. The KJ team offers experience with both GAC and IX groundwater PFAS treatment systems that are in <br />current operation or construction. KJ's recent success designing and constructing treatment systems similar in size and <br />technology to those considered by the City means they can immediately begin design work upon Notice -to -Proceed. Such <br />systems include PEAS treatment systems for the City of Orange (IX, 8,000 gpm), Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency (IX, <br />6,000 gpm), and Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District (GAC/IX, 6,200 AFY). <br />Q T� Water Quality Treatment Specialists (WQTS) is a specialty environmental engineering <br />and science consulting company. WQTS provides a range of services to public and private <br />EEC Environmentat 3 November 17, 2022 <br />City Council 19 — 224 4/4/2023 <br />