DATE: April 17, 2018
TO: Board of Supervisors
SUBMITTED BY: Steven E. White, Director
Department of Public Works and Planning
SUBJECT: Plan Check and Inspection Services Consultant Agreements
RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):
TITLE
Approve and authorize the Chairman to execute a total of four Consultant Agreements; two in the amount of $850,000 annually with JAS Pacific, Inc. and Interwest Consulting Group, Inc., and two in the amount of $100,000 annually with CSG Consultants, Inc. and West Coast Code Consultants, Inc., to perform building plan check and inspection services on an as-needed basis. Effective upon execution, each agreement not to exceed five consecutive years, which includes a three-year base contract and two optional one-year extensions, total for the four agreements not to exceed $9,500,000 (4/5 vote).
REPORT
Approval of the recommended action will authorize the selection of JAS Pacific, Inc. (JAS) ($850,000 annually), Interwest Consulting Group, Inc. (Interwest) ($850,000 annually ), CSG Consultants, Inc. (CSG) ($100,000 annually), and West Coast Code Consultants, Inc. (West Coast) ($100,000 annually) to assist the Department of Public Works and Planning in providing residential, industrial and commercial building plan checking and inspection services to supplement staff as needed. Pursuant to County Charter, Section 13, four affirmative votes of the Board of Supervisors are required to contract with independent contractors for services currently being conducted by County employees. The Department currently has employees who conduct both building plan check and inspection functions. The intent of the recommended action is to supplement, not supplant, current staffing resources on an as-needed basis in order to achieve its target plan check review timelines and inspection requests. This item is countywide.
ALTERNATIVE ACTION(S):
Your Board could determine not to approve the proposed agreements, however, that would greatly reduce the Department's...
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