This is a conceptual proposal submitted by Compliance Professionals for turnkey ecological enhancement and stormwater quality improvement projects to achieve TMDL reductions within the Rappahannock Watershed for the City of Fredericksburg, Virginia. Compliance Professionals, a Virginia-based Class A contractor and certified micro-small SWaM business, is partnering with Ecotone, Inc. , an ecological restoration contractor. The proposal outlines their qualifications, experience, project characteristics, and financing plans. They emphasize their cost-efficiency due to low overhead and their ability to deliver integrated services from project planning through completion. The proposal also details key personnel, financial statements, and a commitment to assuming full risk and liability for project performance. The City of Fredericksburg accepted this unsolicited proposal for conceptual phase review and is also considering a competing proposal from Compliance Professionals.
The bid notice mentions flexible pricing structures including pay-for-performance, financing over time, simple lump sum payments, or a pay-as-you-go monthly invoicing schedule. The bid notice states: Compliance Pros is open and flexible to creative pricing structures. Here are some for the citys consideration, and we are happy to entertain additional ideas as the city might like: 1. Payforperformance: Compliance Pros and the city can establish milestone payments once stages of the project are successfully attained, such as project kickoff, conceptual plan completion, detailed plan completion, permitting completion, construction start, construction completion, and asbuilt survey acceptance. This method aligns the citys spend with project successes. 2. Financing over time: Should the city like to spread costs over a longer period than that of the period of performance project start through asbuilt survey acceptance of the project, Compliance Pros is open to project financing. Financing could be spread over a period, for instance, but the longer the period of payment, the greater the interest amount that would be applied. This payment structure may be beneficial to a budget that cannot pay for the entire project within the periodofperformance. 3. Simple lumpsum payment structure: An example could simply be four or more even payments throughout the period of performance. These payment amounts could be negotiated during the agreement period. 4. Lastly could simply be a payaswego, monthly invoicing schedule based on costs expended, per month. No matter what the pricing structure, Compliance Pros would carry the risk of any cost overruns.
The bid notice states: Compliance Pros will assume full risk and liability for project performance. Depending on the project type, multiple safeguards are built into the delivery model to ensure responsibility remains with Compliance Pros to achieve all required TMDL credit outcomes, including meeting agency and permitspecified success criteria for up to ten 10 years after construction.
The bid notice states: Compliance Pros specializes in stormwater quality and quantity projects, ecological habitat restoration, and a wide range of compliance-related services pertaining to environmental regulations, particularly Chesapeake Bay-related TMDL reductions and other MS4 permit-related requirements. Compliance Pros is teaming with Ecotone, Inc. , a nationally recognized ecological restoration contractor, as our restoration design-build partner.
