The City of San Angelo announced Friday it had awarded a five-year engineering contract to Jviation.
According to a City press release, after the contract with KSA engineers expired, the airport submitted a Request for Qualifications (RFQ). Six firms submitted proposals: GEE, KSA, Centurion, Jviation, PSC and Garver.
Proposals were scored by a five-member committee selected by the airport director and approved by City management before submittals were reviewed.
The review committee consisted of:
- Jeremy Valgardson – Airport Director
- Bobby Frank – Airport Board Representative
- Bob Schneeman – COSA Economic Development
- Shaun Cookson – Former Airport Deputy Director
- Nolan Sosa – COSA Purchasing Manager
Jviation was scored the highest by the committee, followed by Garver and Centurion.
The committee agreed Jviation was the most qualified based on the RFQ process and because of its extensive knowledge in airport engineering, FAA grant administration, FAA familiarity and experience in similar projects, the release said.
Most of the projects listed in the RFQ will be funded through FAA Airport Improvement Program Grants, therefore the scoring design criteria followed FAA Advisory Circular 150-5100-14E. The FAA does not allow additional local preference outside of the design criteria.
Submittals were scored on the following criteria:
- Capability to perform all or most aspects of the listed projects and recent experience in airport projects demonstrating competence in the referenced scope of work, including proper administration of FAA-funded projects.
- Key personnel’s professional qualifications, experience, integrity and availability to competently perform the referenced scope of work, their knowledge of FAA policies and procedures, and experience working with the FAA Southwest Region.
- Demonstrated ability to meet schedules and deadlines.
- Quality of airport projects previously undertaken with a similar scope and capability to complete projects without having major cost escalations or overruns.
- Qualifications and experience of sub-consultants regularly engaged by the consultant under consideration.
- Capability of a branch office that will do the work to perform independently of the home office, or conversely, its capability to obtain necessary support from the home office.
- Ability to furnish qualified inspectors for construction inspections.
- Understanding of the project’s potential challenges and the sponsor’s special concerns.
- Degree of interest shown in undertaking the project and their familiarity with and proximity to the geographic location of the project.
- Capability to conduct a Value Engineering (VE) study for projects that are particularly complex or have unique features.
On Mar. 4, the scores were presented to the public and Airport Advisory Board. With no public comments, voting in favor of Jviation was unanimous.
Jviation is an engineering firm highly focused on the aviation sector and is unique in that it does not split services with civil engineering projects, according to the release.
The firm's staff is made up of former FAA, state and county project administrators, as well as former airline and airport representatives.
For additional information visit, cosatx.us.
