Respondents shall complete Pricing Proposal Section

• The County seeks a full-service with a very high degree of professionalism and prior, demonstrable experience with management, implementation, monitoring/compliance, and reporting required for CDBG-DR funding. Provide a description of your firm, your firm’s experience, and underlying philosophy in providing the services as described and requested herein. Description should include details of specific experience with managing and implementing CDBG-DR funds, outcomes, and a list of the jurisdictions in which your firm worked on these projects.

• List your current CDBG-DR client engagements with similar scope and describe your firm's
  capacity to take on the County's contract.

• Provide a detailed description of the firm’s specific project management team, inclusive of Subcontractors anticipated to be utilized, that will be assigned to the Volusia County contract. Identify the roles and responsibilities of the primary team members as they pertain/apply to the Project Approach and include details that demonstrate individual’s knowledge and understanding of the types of services to be performed as well as previous experience in similar or related work.

• Firm must identify a staff member that will serve as the lead Project Manager that shall be authorized and responsible to act on behalf of the Vendor with respect to directing, coordinating and administering all aspects of the services to be provided and performed. The County prefers that the Project Manager has at least five (5) years of related, relevant experience. 
  • Identify your firm's proposed staff assigned to the County's contract. The County prefers that Vendor staff assigned under this contract at a supervisory level or above have at least three (3) years of experience successfully performing project management services for a range of disaster recovery programs, such as infrastructure, mitigation and general administration of CDBG-DR funds. Further qualifications and experience required of specific staff members are described in the Scope of Work. Such experience shall be demonstrated by the resumes provided in this section.
  • Provide a brief narrative regarding which staff members will be ready for mobilization upon contract approval.

• The County seeks a firm with a very high degree of professionalism and prior,
  demonstrable experience with management, implementation, monitoring/compliance, and reporting required for CDBG-DR funding. To this end, Proposers should meet the following desired qualifications:

• • Experience in and ability to demonstrate a working knowledge of the regulations, statutes, policies, and procedures related to grants funded by HUD Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Programs, including but not limited to application preparation and amendments, record keeping systems, financial management, citizen participation, applicant outreach, procurement, residential anti-displacement, Section 504, fair housing, Equal Employment Opportunity requirements, Section 3, labor compliance (including Davis-Bacon Act), property acquisition, compliance monitoring, and project closeout. Such knowledge and
    experience shall be demonstrated by providing the County with the following documentation as part of the proposal package under: a detailed, narrative statement listing the three most recent, comparable contracts (including contact information) which have been performed.
  • Prior work history with federal, state, or local government, as evidenced by a complete list of government agencies for which the Vendor has performed work in the last five (5) years as the primary contractor.

• Provide a statement acknowledging your firm’s understanding that the project management
  team/key team members assigned to the Volusia County contract, as described above, shall not be substituted without the expressed permission of Volusia County.

• Provide resumes, licensure, and certifications of proposed specific project management team, inclusive of subcontractors anticipated to be utilized.

Provide a detailed Project Approach that explains how your firm intends to comply with and meet the anticipated deliverables as detailed within this solicitation. 

Highlight how your firm controls costs, and any specific assets that your firm intends to use. 

Demonstrate your firm’s experience in, and knowledge of, the regulations, statutes, policies, and procedures related to grants funded by HUD Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Programs, including, but not limited to, financial management, applicant outreach, residential anti-displacement, Section 504, fair housing, Equal Employment Opportunity requirements, Section 3, labor compliance (including Davis-Bacon Act), property acquisition, compliance monitoring, and project closeout. Such knowledge and experience shall be demonstrated by providing the details of a maximum of five (5) projects similar in scope and size to that being requested through this solicitation that your firm has completed recently. Details for each project example provided should include: 

• Project Name
• Project Address
• Customer Name 
• Customer Contact Information 
• Point of contact Name, Phone, and Email o Brief description of work provided.
• Initial costs of work 
• Final costs of work 
• Number of change orders 
• Total completion time (From Notice to Proceed to Final Invoice payment) o Name of the disaster for which CDBG-DR/MIT funding was awarded 
  •  Total CDBG-DR/MIT allocation, and percentage or amount managed by your firm

Provide a statement of understanding that your firm recognizes the County reserves the right to evaluate the proposing Firm on their past performance and prior dealings with Volusia County (i.e., failure to meet specifications, poor workmanship, late delivery, etc.) as part of their experience criteria.

Provide a complete list of government agencies for which you have performed work in the last five (5) years as the primary contractor, the name of the project(s), and total contract amount. 

Provide a complete list of any government agencies with whom your firm has had a contract that had been terminated. 

Respondent shall also list any lawsuits in which their team (firm and sub-consultants) has been involved in relative to company contracts or other company business over the last five (5) years. The Respondent shall also list any work their team failed to complete in accordance with any contract in the last five (5) years and describe details regarding the non-performance, including listing any officer or partner of their team who in the last five (5) years failed to complete a contract handled in his/her name.