Title
Zamia Design Proposal for Design of University Avenue Medians (B)
Explanation
Last month, CRA staff requested proposals from landscape architecture firms for designing two sets of roadway medians. The first set consists of three medians in the Eastside District on East University Avenue and SE Hawthorne Road, and the second consists of five medians on West University Avenue in the College Park/University Heights District. The scope of work consisted of meetings with FDOT, design, construction documents, irrigation system feasibility, and construction observation. Buford Davis and Associates and Zamia Design submitted proposals. Upon review of the proposals, there were discrepancies in the amount of work proposed by the firms, which made it difficult to compare the proposals. The costs varied greatly as a result of the different scopes with Zamia at $4,400 and Buford Davis at $23,280. In June, staff presented these proposals to the CPUH advisory board. With the Zamia proposal, the portion of these costs allocated to CPUH would have been $2,700 inclusive of fees and reimbursable expenses, and $12,890 with Buford Davis. CPUH asked staff to go back to the firms and request they fine tune their estimates and provide new proposals.
Staff requested new proposals on June 12th from the original firms as well as a third, JOLA, Inc., with added clarification to the scope of work and a more transparent breakdown of costs. The scope consisted of the work tasks described in the above paragraph and an optional site survey task. The firms were given the opportunity to bid on each set of medians either as individual projects or combined into one project.
The firms were asked to specify the number of hours and costs for each of the work tasks and the firm's hourly rate for additional services.
One proposal was received on the submittal deadline, June 19, 2007. Zamia Design proposed a combined project cost of $8,820 plus up to $300 in reimb...
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