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Department of Transportation - Building Code Compliance
Procedure
o Florida Department of Transportation – Design Build Procurement
and Administration
o Florida Department of Transportation - Standard Specifications for
Road and Bridge Construction
o Florida Department of Transportation - Structures Manual
o Florida Department of Transportation - Design Standards
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o National Concrete Masonry Association
o National Electrical Code (current edition)
o National Fire Protection Association - Life Safety Code (current
edition)
o Portland Cement Association - Concrete Masonry Handbook
2.20 Services to be Performed by the COUNTY
o When appropriate the COUNTY will provide project data currently on file.
o Provide numbers for field books.
o Regarding Environmental Permitting Services:
Approve contacts with environmental agencies.
Provide general philosophies and guidelines of the COUNTY to be
used in the fulfillment of this contract. Objectives, constraints,
budgetary limitations, and time constraints will be completely defined
by the Project Manager.
Provide the appropriate signatures on application forms.
o Provide letters of authorization designating the CONSULTANT as an
agent of the COUNTY in accordance with F.S. 327.274.
o Provide phase reviews of plans and engineering documents.
o Provide access for the CONSULTANT to utilize the COUNTY’s
Information Technology Resources.
o Furnish COUNTY agreements with Utility Agency Owner (UAO).
o Furnish certifications necessary for project letting.
o Provide information that may come to the COUNTY pertaining to future
improvements.
3 PROJECT COMMON and PROJECT GENERAL TASKS
Project Common Tasks
Project Common Tasks, as listed below, are work efforts that are applicable to
many project activities, 4.0 Roadway Analysis through 32.0 Noise Impact Design
Assessment. These tasks are to be included in the project scope in each applicable
activity when the described work is to be performed by the CONSULTANT.
Cost Estimates: The CONSULTANT shall be responsible for producing a
construction cost estimate and reviewing and updating the cost estimate when
scope changes occur and/or at milestones of the project. A Summary of Pay Items
sheet shall be prepared with required Phase III and Final Plans submittals.
Technical Special Provisions: (Not applicable to this project)
Field Reviews: Includes trips required to obtain necessary data for elements of the
project.
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Technical Meetings: Includes meetings with COUNTY and/or Agency staff, between
disciplines and subconsultants, such as access management meetings, pavement
design meetings, local governments, railroad companies, progress review meetings
(phase review), and miscellaneous meetings. The CONSULTANT shall prepare,
and submit to the COUNTY’s Project Manager for review, the meeting minutes for
meetings attended by them. The meeting minutes are due within five (5) days of
attending the meeting.
Quality Assurance/Quality Control: It is the intention of the COUNTY that design
CONSULTANTS are held responsible for their work, including plans review.
Detailed checking of CONSULTANT plans or assisting in designing portions of the
project for the CONSULTANT is not the intent of having external design
consultants. The purpose of CONSULTANT plan reviews is to ensure that
CONSULTANT plans follow the plan preparation procedures outlined in the FDOT
Plans Preparation Manual, that state and federal design criteria are followed with
the COUNTY concept, and that the CONSULTANT submittals are complete.
The CONSULTANT shall be responsible for the professional quality, technical
accuracy and coordination of surveys, designs, drawings, specifications and other
services furnished by the CONSULTANT under this contract.
The CONSULTANT shall, without additional compensation, correct errors or
deficiencies in the designs, maps, drawings, specifications and/or other services.
Independent Peer Review: (Not applicable to this project)
Supervision: Includes efforts required to supervise technical design activities.
Coordination: Includes efforts to coordinate with disciplines of the project to produce
a final set of construction documents.
Project General Tasks
Project General Tasks, described in Sections 3.1 through 3.7 below, represent work
efforts that are applicable to the project as a whole and not to any one or more
specific project activity. The work described in these tasks shall be performed by
the CONSULTANT when included in the project scope.
3.1 Public Involvement (Not applicable to this project)
This item will be handled under the Phase I – NEPA Environmental
Assessment portion of the scope.
3.1.1 Community Awareness Plan (Not applicable to this project)
3.1.2 Notifications (Not applicable to this project)
3.1.3 Preparing Mailing Lists (Not applicable to this project)
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3.1.4 Median Modification Letters (Not applicable to this project)
3.1.5 Driveway Modification Letters (Not applicable to this project)
3.1.6 Newsletters (Not applicable to this project)
3.1.7 Renderings and Fly-Throughs (Not applicable to this project)
3.1.8 PowerPoint Presentations (Not applicable to this project)
3.1.9 Public Meeting Preparations (Not applicable to this project)
3.1.10 Public Meeting Attendance and Follow-up (Not applicable to this
project)
3.1.11 MPO Meetings (Not applicable to this project)
3.1.12 Web Site (Not applicable to this project)
3.2 Joint Project Agreements (Not applicable to this project)
3.3 Specifications Package Preparation
The CONSULTANT shall prepare and provide a specifications package
prepared in accordance with the COUNTY’S standard requirements.
3.4 Contract Maintenance
Contract maintenance includes project management effort for complete setup
and maintenance of files, developing monthly progress reports, schedule
updates, work effort to develop and execute subconsultant agreements, etc.
3.5 Value Engineering (Multi-Discipline Team) Review (Not applicable to
this project)
3.6 Prime Consultant Project Manager Meetings
Includes only the Prime Consultant Project Manager's time for travel and
attendance at Activity Technical Meetings and other meetings listed in the
meeting summary for Task 3.6 on tab 3.0 Project General Task of the staff
hour forms. Staff hours for other personnel attending Activity Technical
Meetings are included in the meeting task for that specific Activity.
3.7 Plans Update (Not applicable to this project)
3.8 Post Design Services
Post Design Services may include, but not limited to, meetings, construction
assistance, plans revisions, shop drawing review, survey services and load
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ratings. Specific services will be negotiated as necessary as a contract
amendment.
Post Design Services are not intended for instances of CONSULTANT errors
and/or omissions.
3.9 Electronic Delivery (Not applicable to this project)
3.10 Electronic Delivery (Not applicable to this project)
4 ROADWAY ANALYSIS
The CONSULTANT shall analyze and document Roadway Tasks in accordance
with applicable manuals, guidelines, standards, handbooks, procedures, and
current design memorandums.
4.1 Typical Section Package
The CONSULTANT shall provide an approved Typical Section Package prior
to the Phase II plans submittal date.
4.2 Pavement Design Package
The CONSULTANT shall provide an approved Pavement Design Package in
accordance with applicable FDOT pavement design manuals prior to the
Phase II plans submittal date.
4.3 Access Management
The CONSULTANT shall incorporate access management standards for
each project in coordination with COUNTY staff. The CONSULTANT shall
review adopted access management standards and the existing access
conditions (interchange spacing, signalized intersection spacing, median
opening spacing, and connection spacing). Median openings that will be
closed, relocated, or substantially altered shall be shown on plan sheets and
submitted with supporting documentation for review with the Phase I plans
submittal.
The access management classification information derived from the Phase I
– NEPA Environmental Assessment and public hearings will be used by the
CONSULTANT.
4.4 Horizontal/Vertical Master Design Files
The CONSULTANT shall design the geometrics using the design standards
that are most appropriate with proper consideration given to the design traffic
volumes, design speed, capacity and levels of service, functional
classification, adjacent land use, design consistency and driver expectancy,
aesthetics, pedestrian and bicycle concerns, ADA requirements, elder road
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user policy, access management, and the Phase I – NEPA Environmental
Assessment.
4.5 Cross Section Design Files
The CONSULTANT shall establish and develop cross section of the
proposed design at 100’ intervals and any intermediate critical locations to
estimate R/W needs.
4.6 Traffic Control Analysis
The CONSULTANT shall design a safe and effective Traffic Control Plan to
move vehicular and pedestrian traffic during all phases of construction. The
design shall include construction phasing of roadways ingress and egress to
existing property owners and businesses, routing, signing and pavement
markings, and detour quantity tabulations, roadway pavement, drainage
structures, ditches, front slopes, back slopes, drop offs within clear zone, and
traffic monitoring sites.
4.7 Master TCP Design Files (Not applicable to this project)
4.8 Design Variations and Exceptions (Not applicable to this project)
4.9 Design Report
The CONSULTANT shall submit to the COUNTY design notes, data, and
calculations to document the design conclusions reached during the
development of the contract plans.
The design notes, data, and computations shall be recorded on size 8½"x11"
sheets, fully titled, numbered, dated, indexed and signed by the designer and
the checker. Computer output forms and other oversized sheets shall be
folded to 8½"x11" size. The data shall be in a hardback folder for submittal to
the COUNTY.
4.10 Computation Book and Quantities
The CONSULTANT shall prepare the Computation Book and various
summary of quantities sheets. This includes efforts required to develop the
Computation Book and the supporting documentation, including construction
days when required.
4.11 Cost Estimate
The CONSULTANT will compile a Construction Cost Estimate for the Phase
III (90%) and Final Submittals. The CONSULTANT will provide a R/W
acquisition needs estimate based
