Opening of Qualifications - WWTP CSO Tank RFQ Guaranteed Savings Contract Proj No. 121-071-A - Bowen Enigneering

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Thank you for the opportunity to present this response to your Request for Qualification (RFQ) that demonstrates Bowen’s qualifications related to a Guaranteed Savings Contract (GSC) for your project. The Executive Summary section will provide you with the top reasons why choosing the Bowen team will result in an excellent construction experience for the City of South Bend. Project Overview It is our understanding that the City of South Bend intends to select a GSC Provider to implement improvements to their Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP). Primarily, to construct a new CSO diversion structure, new interceptors to divert flow, a 40MGD influent pump station, a 3-million-gallon equalization basin, a control building, and a standby power generator. In addition to the CSO 045 Basin Project, the City intends to implement upgrades to the WWTP Clarifiers 1, 2 and 3. In the following pages, we will explain how this scope best fits into Indiana Code 36-1-12.5 and why Bowen is the best Provider for your project. The Indiana Guaranteed Savings Contract legislation will allow the City of South Bend to capitalize on a collaborative approach while taking advantage of design innovations, construction expertise, and cost savings. By choosing Bowen, you can expect the below benefits. ►Minimum Risk – The City of South Bend can shift the project risk to the Provider for both the budget and schedule. Bowen guarantees the Guaranteed Max Price (GMP) with no change orders and have yet to miss a schedule deadline on one of our (100+) GSC projects. This is unique to other responders that might offer a shared risk model, meaning multiple GMP methods. Bowen could offer these options as well and would be happy to discuss them if requested. It is Bowen’s opinion that a true GSC model should have no risk of a change order and Bowen is prepared to take the construction risk and eliminate any project headaches. (Financial Approach) ►Speed and Efficiency – The Bowen team is prepared and ready to fast track your project with our proven team, proven process and successful past experience. We will use our collaborative pre- contract storyboard approach to set key dates, collaborate on procurement to avoid supply chain challenges and share expectations to help keep the design, scoping and construction process on schedule. What makes our team unique is our previous experience with South Bend and its engineering partners. Specifically, Bowen has worked with the City of South Bend on multiple past WWTP projects including upgrades to Clarifiers 4 and 5, along with a recent GSC project at the Pinhook WTP. These were successful projects that produced quality, finished products involving great communication and collaboration with the staff of South Bend, the design engineers and Bowen. Bowen also has successful experience with American Structurepoint and Arcadis GSC projects. To benefit your next GSC project, Bowen has proactively collaborated with Dutchland to ensure that we can provide value engineering options while meeting or exceeding your project delivery timeline. See Dutchland documents in Technical Approach. (Technical Approach and Project Implementation) ►Lowest Possible Cost – We can obtain the best price for South Bend through constant interaction with the vendors and subcontractors and our ability to self-perform a significant portion of this project. We have a trusted process in place for collaborative Value Engineering and lessons learned that have proven Bowen’s ability to keep projects at or under budget. This process has been proven on previous traditional and GSC projects for South Bend and the Northwestern Indiana region. Bowen will offer our Open Book Guaranteed Maximum pricing with 100% of the savings going to South Bend. Bowen proposes an 8% fee for overhead and profit on all GSC projects implemented under this RFQ. (Financial Approach) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY