Item 09 - Request for Proposals for Affordable Housing Development

Home Browse Search

CITY OF SANTA ANA (2) Community Workforce Agreement The City of Santa Ana has established a CWA with the goal of ensuring that the community is a part of the workforce on public works construction projects. The CWA applies to City- funded affordable housing projects, and imposes requirements on the project that will be enforced in any final agreement with the City. The Developer will be solely responsible for compliance with the CWA and ensuring any contractors comply with the CWA. Among other things, the CWA requires that all contractors working on CWA covered projects participate in a process for using local and skilled workers from the union hiring halls of the various construction trades. It is the Contractor’s responsibility to ensure that the project’s craft hours are performed at least 30% by workers from Tier 1 and 2 ZIP codes and/or veterans and Building Trades Multi-Trade Craft Core Curriculum Pre-Apprenticeship Program graduates, regardless of where they live. Tier 1 ZIP codes are those comprising the City of Santa Ana and Tier 2 ZIP codes are those comprising Orange County. The local hire attainment will be calculated by dividing the hours reported as performed by local workers on Certified Payroll Reports by the total number of hours reported on Certified Payroll Reports. It is the prime Contractor’s responsibility to determine how to attain that goal. Although each subcontractor is not required to meet the goals, the project overall must meet it. (3) Federal Grant Contract Provisions Proposer must agree to the federal contract provisions outlined in the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards at 2 CFR Part 200.326. These provisions will become part of the agreement resulting from this bid. (4) Fiscal Nonfunding Clause In the event sufficient budgeted funds are not available for a new fiscal period, the City shall retain the right to notify the provider of such occurrence in writing at least thirty (30) days before the end of the current fiscal period and terminate the pre-loan commitment on the last day of the current fiscal period without penalty or expense to the City. (5) Joint Offers/Subconsultants Where two (2) or more Proposers desire to submit a single proposal in response to this RFP, they should do so on a prime sub-consultant basis. The City intends to contract with a single firm, also known as the prime, and not with multiple firms doing business as a joint venture. Should the use of sub-consultants be offered, the Proposer shall provide the same assurances of competence for the sub-consultant plus the demonstrated ability to manage and supervise the subcontracted work. Sub-consultants shall not be allowed to further subcontract with others for work under the Agreement. The provisions of the pre-loan commitment shall apply to all sub-consultants in the same manner as the Proposer. The Proposer is responsible for all the actions taken by their subcontractor. The City reserves the right to reject, replace and approve any and all Subcontractors. All Subcontractor(s) shall be identified in the response to the RFP and the City reserves the right to reject any proposed Subcontractor(s). Subcontractors shall be the responsibility of the prime Contractor and the City shall assume no liability of such Subcontractors. (6) Independent Contractor Contractor is considered an independent Contractor and neither Contractor, its employees, nor anyone working under Contractor will be considered an agent or an employee of City. EXHIBIT 1