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Our extensive experience with similar projects will ensure that the City will receive a high level of service delivered by qualified, knowledgeable engineering professionals. Highly meticulous and coherent plans and specifications greatly benefit all project stakeholders, with the largest benefit reali; dd,by the Owner. Quality contract documents clearly lead to a larger number of bidders, lower competitive bid prices (due to increased competition, the contractor has less to assume and take the risk for, and a greater overall comfort level in our design based on a long history of successful projects), and lowest overall cost while achieving a very high -quality end product (quality contract documents mitigates the potential, and impact of change orders, and sets forth a standard of quality the contract must achieve). No two projects are the same, although many are similar. The key is to utilize elements of work that have been successful and can be appropriately applied to your projects, continue to improve construction efficiencies without lowering quality based on contractor feedback, and maximize the overall operational flexibility. We feel the previous work that Tetra Tech has completed on previous projects for the City are examples of our quality product which has resulted in a low overall cost for the City. We want to utilize the experience gained from working on the previous projects, and to continue providing the City with exceptional services to assure that another project is successfully completed to the satisfaction of the City. It is this experience where Tetra Tech has truly garnered the understanding and needs of the City to support on the design and engineering services below. TASK ORDER APPROACH Every project has unique challenges and concerns regardless of how similar it may be to previous projects. To ensure the timely and efficient completion of work, it is imperative to identify all project specific issues during the development of On -Call Engineering Services the project scope and project implementation stages so that each issue can receive proper attention at the appropriate point in the process. The intent is to resolve each issue while quantifying its impact on project costs, schedule, and risks. A detailed outline of our standard task order approach is included in Section 2 Scope of Services and Schedule. PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROCEDURES Successful on -call service contracts require a diverse and highly talented team, made up of specific engineering and design disciplines, as well as responsible project management. No matter the task that is being requested, each project requires: • Delivering a project within budget and on schedule • Coordinating with appropriate agency representatives • Implementing a Quality Assurance/Quality Control Plan to increase the excellence of the end product • Teamwork development and meeting participation PROJECT/COST CONTROL For project development, Tetra Tech will use a Project Management/Control System which we have used successfully on numerous municipal projects. The core of this system is a monthly Project Management Report. CRITICAL PATH METHOD (CPM) SCHEDULES Tetra Tech will approach the development of a detailed work plan very seriously. The project team will meet at project initiation to collectively determine the smaller work tasks required to complete the major work activities as established in the Scope of Services. A sequencing plan of these smaller work tasks, using precedence format, will be developed which in turn will determine the overall schedule. The series of work tasks and resulting schedule will be diagrammatically exhibited as a Critical Path Method (CPM) flow chart. This flow chart, which highlights the critical path, will be used to base our determination of the intermediate project milestones. TETRA TECH