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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute a one-year contract extension with MWH Americas, Inc., (MWH) in an amount not to exceed $146,000 (with a net cost to the City of $20,857) 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
Since 2001, the City of Long Beach has participated in an ongoing study to benchmark capital project delivery performance by the seven largest cities in California. The purpose of the study is to determine what are reasonable costs to deliver capital projects by comparing cost data from similar agencies and to compare/evaluate different delivery methods. Information is shared by each participating agency on what has worked or not worked to improve project delivery in categories as varied as fire stations, libraries, parks, streets, storm drains, and traffic signals just to name a few.
The study, now known as the California Multi-Agency CIP Benchmarking Study, was first published in 2002, with subsequent annual updates published each year thereafter. The study currently includes three main areas: Performance Benchmarking, Best Management Practices and Discussions of Current Project Delivery issues, and has been officially recognized by the California League of California Cities, and the American Public Works Association.
The participating agencies of Los Angeles, Long Beach, San Jose, San Francisco, San Diego, Sacramento, and Oakland have agreed that in an unprecedented period of budget reductions, cost reallocations, changing bid environment, increasing public awareness and scrutiny, and the ever growing green movement, having the ability to compare notes on project delivery with other agencies in California has moved from being a luxury to a necessity. When every dollar spent on delivering a project needs to be justified and accounted for, it becomes extremel...
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