37 qualified firms<\/a>, which seemed “large firm-heavy,” Councilwoman Nancy Stoner said.<\/p>\n“Any reason we can’t get smaller firms (or more options from smaller firms)?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n
The Village is looking at a new pool of qualified contractors since the existing contracts are expiring. Rather than selecting a single consultant for each discipline, Village staff is recommending establishing multiple continuing service agreements.<\/p>\n
By law, continuing professional services must fall within guidelines of less than $500,000 for a project, of which cannot total $7.5 million.<\/p>\n
“We did prioritize their availability,\u201d Village Manager Steve Williamson said. \u201cWe wanted to identify firms that have people readily available.”<\/p>\n
An evaluation committee was put in place to determine the eligible pool, to select firms for each discipline.<\/p>\n
Mayor Joe Rasco suggested the item be deferred and allow Stoner and Village Attorney Chad Friedman to work together and “maybe come back with a little different criteria.”<\/p>\n
They would report at the next meeting on Aug. 25, or “depends on what the outcome is,” Williamson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During an abbreviated Village Council meeting on July 7, Key Biscayne Council members deferred a vote on selecting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[140494,126,140491,123,125,124,25521,140492,140493,127],"class_list":["post-342240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-aecom-technical-services","tag-key-biscayne","tag-key-biscayne-village-council-members","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-nancy-stoner","tag-pool-of-consultants","tag-stantec-consulting-services","tag-village-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}