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5 <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION ADENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Mee[inB Oaten June 3o, 1999 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. B-d <br />SUBJECT: Value Enpinee0ng Consultant Selection <br /> <br />DEPARTMENT: Purchasirg 8 Cenhal Services PUBLIC HEPRINO: (YIN) ~o__] <br />ATTACHMENTIS): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />John Link, extension 2300 <br />Swpe of work statement hom PES Paul Thames, extension 2300 <br />Cost DroDOSaI Pem Jones, eztension 2652 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 132A181 <br />Chapel Hill 888-0501 <br />Ourbam 668-]331 <br />Mebane 33822]3031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider authorizing COUnry staff to complete negotiations on an agreement with <br />Pacific Environmental Services (PES) to wnduct construdibiliry reviews for Nup schppls: and to <br />endorse a sewnd phase of the seleUipn pmmae for a value engineering 5rm. <br />BACKGROUND: The desire of the County Commissioners to gain ballet control of rewurces <br />elated wlO wnsbuctipn of County arq school faglihe615 well tlommenled. Value <br />Brig nearing was identified ass pplandal answer to this Issue. As dari0wtion. value engmeedng is <br />a process whereby each and every aspect of a pmjed Is reviewed by an unbiased Mlyd pally, in <br />wllaboretlon with the other key players, such as the designer and school andlor County personnel. <br />In oMar [o ensure that value-engineering resoumes were available for the school projecs during <br />the summer, the selection panel wen[ through an intensive process wuh sVident hme constraints to <br />bringforwaNarecommentlalion for Board mnsidemtlon. The aeleclipn prowss was enlightening <br />end bmughl new perspective about what a whole value-engineering program should be and what <br />could be expected of a Dropedy carried out program. The interviewing wnaultante suppoded what <br />we have heats before, value engineering Is most ehec0ve with it Is begun early in project <br />Oevelopmenl. <br />Since bltltling for the middle school pmjed in Chapel HIII and the elementary school in Orange <br />County is imminent, these projects could no[ experience the lull benefit of value engineering. <br />It the Commissioners desire to pursue any functional elements of value engineering for <br />these two pmjacia, it Is remmmentletl that [he Board consider retaining Pacific <br />Environmental Services (PES) to conduct mnstruc1ibility reviews for [he Orojects. Though <br />note total value engineering process, cpnslrudlbility reviews in these two projects can <br />yield signifcant beneh[s, amortling to PES. The scope of work for the construdibility <br />review is attached far your informa8on. It would involve intensive review work for one <br />week and would Pocus on items that would require minimum design change, but where <br />signifcant cost savings could be ezpedad. Atltlilionally, the consuhant indicates that this <br />