TITLE
Recommendation to authorize City Manager to enter into a one year term agreement with MWH Americas, Inc., (MWH) in an amount not to exceed $154,000 (with a net cost to the City of Long Beach of $22,000) to provide statistical and data gathering services for the California Multi-Agency Capital Improvement Program (CIP) Benchmarking Study Group in which the City of Long Beach participates. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
Prior to 2001, seven of the largest cities in California were expected to award billions of dollars in public works infrastructure construction contracts without the benefit of any organized benchmarking data to assist in the process. Each of these cities had accumulated their own respective experiences in managing not only actual construction costs but the significant additional project delivery costs associated with planning, design, environmental documentation, value engineering, permits, construction management and startup.
To access this collective and valuable experience, in October 2001, the City of Los Angeles, Department of Public Works, Bureau of Engineering initiated a benchmarking study through the cooperative effort of individuals responsible for the development and implementation of capital improvement projects in the cities of Long Beach, Oakland, Sacramento, San Diego, San Jose, and San Francisco. The objective of this study was to provide a general analysis of the efficiency of capital project delivery systems within various agencies in California, based on the observed performance and the processes implemented over previous years. This study became known as the California Multi-Agency CIP Benchmarking Study (Study). The first Study was published in 2002, with subsequent annual updates published each year thereafter. The Study has evolved over the years into three main areas: Performance Benchmarking, Best Management Practices and Discussions of Current Project Delivery issues also known as "on-line discussions" (Exhibit A).
The ...
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