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Public Works Agency <br />www.santa-ana.org/public-works <br />Item # 23 <br />City of Santa Ana <br />20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br />Staff Report <br />May 21, 2024 <br />TOPIC: On -Call Engineering, Technical, and Administrative Staff Support Services <br />AGENDA TITLE <br />Agreements with Project Partners, Interwest Consulting Group Inc., EC & AM <br />Associates Inc. dba GK & Associates Inc., Richard Fisher Associates, and Ladayu <br />Consulting Group for On -Call Engineering, Technical, and Administrative Staff Support <br />Services <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />Authorize the City Manager to execute five agreements with the firms listed below to <br />provide engineering, technical, and administrative staff support services, for a three- <br />year period commencing July 15, 2024 and expiring July 14, 2027, with a provision for <br />one, two-year renewal option exercisable by the City Manager and City Attorney, for a <br />total aggregate amount not to exceed $2,500,000 for the term of the contract, including <br />the optional renewal (Core Agreement No. A-2024-XXX). <br />Firms <br />Project Partners <br />Interwest Consulting Group, Inc. <br />GK & Associates <br />Richard Fisher Associates <br />Lada u Consulting Group <br />GOVERNMENT CODE 484308 APPLIES: Yes <br />DISCUSSION <br />The City of Santa Ana Public Works Agency oversees all aspects of civil engineering for <br />capital improvement projects, development engineering, and the managing of project <br />design and construction. In the past, the City has contracted with consultant firms to <br />provide temporary staffing for the Public Works Agency (PWA) to perform a wide range <br />of tasks to design, manage, and inspect construction of City capital improvements, and <br />to support citywide development, plan check, and utility permit -related services. In <br />anticipation of peak workloads which will exceed the current staffing capacity of PWA, <br />the recommended staff augmentation will help maintain time -sensitive project delivery <br />schedules and commitments related to private property development activity. The <br />approval of the recommended action will allow the City to temporarily augment staff as <br />