RE: SB-442 Relating to: requiring local units of government to use the qualifications-based selection process for certain public works consulting contracts.

Jeff, I recommend opposing this legislation based on the fact that it precludes us from considering consultant fees as part of the selection criteria. Fees become very critical in determining the value of the service that a consultant will provide to us. It is very common, on any given RFP, to have several closely qualified consultants to perform a certain task or scope where only fees could determine the ranking of these consultants. This is a value approach of consultant selection which is prevalent amongst other municipalities.

Please note that we avoid using fees as a criteria when we predict using such professional services on state and federally funded projects.

From: Mantes, Jeffrey
Sent: Thu 1/14/2010 8:52 AM
To: Intergovernmental; Kelsey, Rhonda; Korban, Ghassan
Cc: Gonda, Jennifer; Polenske, Jeffrey; Cole, Preston; Lewis, Carrie; Krug, Shirley
Subject: RE: SB-442 Relating to: requiring local units of government to use the qualifications-based selection process for certain public works consulting contracts.

I believe we follow this procedure in contracts using state and or federal funding. The only difference in strictly City funded projects is that we do ask for fee related info, such as hourly rates, overhead, level of effort as a matter of comparison and as a gage in the consultants understanding of the scope...ie if the level of effort varies considerably there is a question as to whether the RFP was vague/unclear or the particular consultant understood the scope. By copy I am asking Ghassan and staff to comment further.

Jeff

Jeffrey J Mantes
Jeffrey J. Mantes P.E.
Commissioner of Public Works
City of Milwaukee
Room 501
841 N Broadway
Milwaukee, WI 53202
414 286 3301
414 286 3953 fax
jeffrey.mantes@milwaukee.gov

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From: Intergovernmental
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 10:59 AM
To: Mantes, Jeffrey; Kelsey, Rhonda
Cc: Gonda, Jennifer
Subject: SB-442 Relating to: requiring local units of government to use the qualifications-based selection process for certain public works consulting contracts.

http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2009/data/SB-442.pdf

SB-442 was recently introduced.

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