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Willdan provides all administrative, professional, and other technical resources necessary to review designs for completeness and correctness without the need for subconsultants. In our communication process, we can transmit rough drafts of our comments back to the City for review prior to the preparation of final copies. This gives the City staff the prerogative of changing, modifying, or adding any comments they desire. Following approval of draft comments, final copies are printed on an agency letterhead, or as otherwise directed, and forwarded to the applicant and/or returned to the City. This process assures local input and knowledge of the content of corrections and produces continuity between the jurisdiction and the consultant. Plan reviewers will be available to discuss and clarify plan check issues with the City staff, designers, owners, and contractors. Willdan will utilize recordation of plan review comments and responses. Mylar plans ready for approval by the City Engineer will be initialed, and a letter will be provided stating that the design is in substantial compliance with the applicable local, state, and federal requirements. Deliverables to the client and applicant for a typical plan check will include electronic delivery of reviewed plans and documents and a corresponding plan review comment letter. For projects containing the review of multiple documents, the plan review comments will be consolidated into one comprehensive comment letter. Throughout the plan check process, Willdan will be available to meet with City Staff and/or the developers' consultant with 48 hours advance notice. Willdan will tailor our in-house checklists to meet the City requirements. We routinely utilize check lists to track the completion of the various plan check requirements. They promote consistency in reviews and can be used in-house only or distributed to the City and applicant as directed. Electronic Plan Review Willdan has been providing plan review services electronically for over 17 years. The Geocivix electronic plan review process is a web -based program utilizing software that enables a plan reviewer to insert annotations (comments) on plans and create issues (comments) within a letterformat. Services are provided at the request of the applicant or the agency we serve. Submittals can be accepted either in hard copy, whereby Willdan converts the plans to electronic format, or electronic copy in a PDF or TIF format. Willdan will review plans and can transmit the electronic redlined plans back to the applicant or the City as directed, in either electronic or hard -copy format. The reviewers can create a comment letter with links to the electronic project pages under review. All administrative tools are provided for correspondence, tracking, stepping through stages, and administering all access privileges. This service allows for collaboration between the City, designer, and plans examiner to facilitate a complete understanding of plan review comments and can reduce shipping, printing, and time for the plan review. We understand that the City currently uses Project Doxx as their electronic plan review platform. Willdan has worked with many different platforms such as LMS, TRAKiT and Energov and found the learning curve to be minimal for each one as they are similar. Willdan can both work directly within the City's current system or augment with Willdan's developed platform based on the City's preference. Willdan will utilize electronic plan reviews to help streamline the review process via the use of Bluebeam. Multidiscipline reviews can utilize a Bluebeam Studio Session. These sessions allow all reviewers to markup the plan set as one cohesive team. All comments are seen by the whole team allowing immediate input and feedback between disciplines as if they are marking up the plans over the same table. Several of our clients use permit tracking software such as LMS, TRAKiT or Energov and we are proficient in the use of those software platforms as well. We will coordinate our review services with the City's permit tracking system. Proposal for On -Call Plan Checking Services 10