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16 General Engineering and Environmental Management Services PROPOSAL HIGHLIGHTS HDR has formatted this proposal in a manner to ensure compliance with the County's RFQ, and also to expedite your review of our Qualifications information. This section provides an overview of our submittal, explains our approach to serving Orange County, and emphasizes some key reasons we think HDR is the best team for Orange County. We are proud of our staff and industry expertise, and we hope it shows! HDR Overview— The Overview section includes a brief corporate background of HDR and highlights our longstanding North Carolina solid waste experience. HDR is an employee -owned company providing engineering solutions to public sector clients like Orange County for over 90 years. We remain one of very few full - service, solid waste firms in the nation. To supplement our team, we've included Resource Recycling Systems, Inc. (RRS). RRS has a proven track record with Orange County. An overview of the firm is included at the end of the section. Project Understanding— This section reiterates our understanding of your solicitation, and also explains our approach to serving clients in an on -call contract arrangement. HDR has been doing solid waste work in the Carolinas since the 1970s, and our core business is providing all facets of solid waste planning, permitting, design, and construction services to city and county government. We are at our best when we collaborate with our clients from the planning stages all the way through to certification of the project. One of our best skills is finding ways for clients to save money. Often times, key decisions made at the inception of a project are the defining moments when the financial course is set — and HDR brings vast experience to the table. Project Experience — The Project Experience section starts with a summary of some of the award winning solid waste projects HDR has led in recent years. Following that is a brief description of projects completed by HDR's Carolinas team. We have documented our capabilities through a combination of showcased project examples that cover services similar to those requested by Orange County. The first section focuses on comprehensive solid waste services we've provided to Carolinas clients. Contact information for key references is included at the end of each write -up. After that we've included some national projects in the categories of waste to energy, waste reduction and recycling, and facilities such as MRFs and recycling centers. There are also project sheets for a few RRS projects at the end of the Experience section. Project Team — The strength of our company is our people. HDR's experience, gained through the hard work of dedicated staff, is what differentiates HDR from most other consultants. Your RFQ is for general engineering and environmental services, so we've included numerous categories of work and the key staff that are associated with that type of work. The Project Team section starts with an organization chart outlining key staff we have selected for work with the County. Joe Readling, PE, VP will be the Project Director, supported by Bob Rella, PE, SVP as Project Principal. Joe is HDR's solid waste section manager in the Carolinas with over 24 years of experience. In addition, Joe was recently named as HDR's national Landfill Practice Leader where he coordinates HDR's resources related to landfill services on a national level. Bob is HDR's east region manager for solid waste and facilities. In his east region role, Bob is intimately familiar with HDR's resources as well as keeping abreast of solid waste industry trends both nationally and abroad. Joe and Bob have worked together for over 15 years in the Charlotte office and will ensure that Orange County gets the needed resources. You'll see as you review our Project Team section that we've showcased a lot of resources. Understand that our Carolinas team located in Raleigh and Charlotte has great depth and experience, and will coordinate the day -to -day contact with the County and do the lions share of the work on most projects. We've included many of our national resources on the team to demonstrate to the County that our experience is a real differentiator for HDR. That does not mean we will load up your projects with expensive experts from far and wide. On most occasions, our industry experts are used as support resources to our local staff and may not even be a "visible" part of the team. Managing our Page 1 fl