Good afternoon, everyone. I am Christine Shorey, Senior Purchasing Manager and the meeting facilitator. I would like to call to order this initial evaluation committee meeting for request for proposals RFP number PNC-212-9621-P1, Engineering Services for Master Pump Stations Rehabilitation for the Public Works and Environmental Services Department, Wastewater Services. The time is 3.03 p.m. on December the 10th, 2025. This meeting is being held through Microsoft Teams. Representatives from the county are physically here in room 430 of the Government Center building located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, or virtually through Teams. Attendees, if you could please mute the microphones on your devices to limit background noise. This is a public meeting and is being recorded by Broward County. The video recording will act as the official recording of the meeting and the recording will be made available on the Purchasing Division website under the RLI RFP repository. Information reviewed by the evaluation committee as part of the evaluation process will also be posted on the repository. This meeting has been publicly noticed. The purpose of this meeting is to determine the responsiveness and responsibility of the proposing vendors. Only those vendors that have been determined by the evaluation committee today to be both responsive and responsible to the solicitation requirements and, if necessary, shortlisted may proceed to the final evaluation committee meeting for presentations and ranking. At the time of the solicitation deadline, 2 p.m. on September the 12th, 2025, five proposals were received. Today's meeting attendance is recorded in the following ways. The Purchasing Division records attendance of county staff physically here in room 430. All virtual attendees, including county staff, if you could please click on the link or scan the QR code that is currently listed in the Teams chat section to complete that sign-in sheet. For attendees that cannot access the link or the QR code in the Teams chat, please email the Purchasing Assistant Manager, Nancy Olson at nolson at broward.org, with the subject EC meeting attendance, and indicate your name, your title, and the company that you represent in the email body. The following are the county's project staff. Milton Reynoso, Project Manager, Water Waste Water Services, Nancy Olson, Purchasing Assistant Manager, Ricardo Abraham and Matthew Haber, County Attorney's Office, Geoffrey Simmons, Office of Economic and Small Business Development, Colleen Poonow, Risk Management Division, and Ron Thomas of the Water Waste Water Services Finance Division. We do have a quorum present today with the following evaluation committee members. Committee members, if you could please say present after your name is called. Carlos Adorosio, Assistant Director, Environmental Permitting Division, Public Works and Environmental Services Department. Present. Thank you. Clive Haynes, Assistant Director, Water Water Services Operations Division, Public Works and Environmental Services Department. Thank you. And Gerald Soto Fernandez, Capital Program Administrator, Water Waste Water Engineering Division, Public Works and Environmental Services Department. Present. Thank you. It is the evaluation committee's responsibility to review the vendor submittals to ensure solicitation requirements are met and to evaluate the submittals and make a recommendation to award a contract. Each evaluation committee member was appointed by the county administrator to serve on this committee based on their experience. The evaluation committee members are responsible for following the county's established committee procedures to select vendors which provide the services that are in the best interest of the county. At the discretion of the board, the evaluation committee members may be requested to substantiate their recommendation and discuss their submittal reviews. In accordance with Broward County Procurement Code, each evaluation committee member must affirm that they are free of conflicts of interest as provided by Part 3 of Chapter 112 of the Florida Statutes and the Broward County Employee Code of Ethics. Thank you. If everyone could remain on mute, please. All evaluation committee members and the project manager that have been assigned have submitted the required Broward County disclosure forms and responded that they can be fair and impartial to all vendors. The cone of silence has been in effect since this solicitation's advertisement. Vendors are prohibited from discussing this solicitation with the commissioner's office, county staff, or a member of the evaluation committee. The cone of silence terminates when the awarding authority takes action which ends the solicitation. During the cone of silence period, inquiries regarding this solicitation should be directed to the project manager or the director of purchasing and or his designee. Also, vendors may communicate with designated representative from the Office of Economic and Small Business Development at any time regarding the solicitation small business enterprise or county business enterprise participation. The summary of vendor rights regarding Broward County competitive solicitations was issued in the solicitation. At this time, the purchasing agent will report on the findings of responsiveness and responsibility and identify if any exceptions were taken to the county's terms and conditions. Thank you. Proposals were received from the following vendors, Shenmore and Associates Incorporated, CSA Central Incorporated, GFT Infrastructure Incorporated, HPC Engineering Company, Premier Design Solutions Incorporated. The solicitation had two responsiveness requirements involving compliance, criminal history screening practices certification, lobbyist registration certification. The director of purchasing recommends that all vendors be deemed responsive to all the responsiveness requirements. The solicitation had six areas of responsibility requirements. Affiliated entities of the principles, financial information, financial ability, insurance requirements, license requirements, litigation history, office of economic and small business development program requirements. All vendors provided the required documentation for evaluation committees review for responsibility. The solicitation required vendors to state whether they accept Broward County standard terms or conditions or if they do not accept them to identify the agreement provisions and vendor proposed changes. All vendors accepted the county standards terms and conditions without exception. This concludes purchasing's remarks and is presented for the consideration of the evaluation committee. Thank you. Thank you. The next order of business is to determine vendor responsiveness as defined in the procurement code section 21.40a. Is there any discussion from the evaluation committee regarding the determination of responsiveness of the firms? Hearing none, may I have a motion with respect to the responsiveness of the vendor submittals? If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Excuse me, sir. Sir? Excuse me. Make sure we'll discuss that the microphones are on so that the entire room can capture your questions. I would like to make a motion to find all vendors as responses to the solicitation responsiveness criteria. Thank you. May I have a second? Thank you. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Thank you. That motion passes unanimously. The next order of business is to determine the responsibility of the vendors as defined in the procurement code section 21.40b. Is there any discussion from the evaluation committee regarding the responsibility of the vendors? If not, may I have a motion, please, regarding responsibility? I'm on. Sorry, Mr. Haynes, we can't hear you. Yes, Mr. Haynes. I would like to make a motion to find all vendors as responsive. We're on responsibility? Responsibility. Okay. Second. Can you restate it? I'm sorry. I can barely hear you. I can barely talk, but I also can barely hear you. I will second. I need to hear his motion, if you don't mind, Mr. Haynes, to repeat it. Okay. I would like to make a motion to find all vendors responsive. Okay. We have already had a motion on responsiveness, and we found all vendors responsive. So, the motion that we're looking for now is regarding responsibility. And where we are, if it helps, is there some guidance on the script on page eight? So, we're looking for a motion regarding responsibility. Can I make the motion? Yes, go right ahead. I'm Gerald Soto. I would like to make a motion to find all the vendors responsible for the solicitation responsibility requirements. Thank you. May I have a second, please? I second it. Thank you, Mr. Haynes. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. Thank you. That motion passes unanimously. The next order of business is to determine the vendors that were found to be both responsive and responsible. May I have a motion with respect to the vendors determined to be both responsive and responsible? This is Clive Haynes. I would like to make a motion to find the following vendors as both responsive and responsible for solicitation requirement. Okay. And did you say the following vendors? Did you want to list them? It helps page four, starts the list of vendors, and it continues on to page five. The following vendors are Chen Moran Associates, Inc., CSH Central, Inc., GFT Infrastructure, Inc., HBC Engineering Company, Premier Design Solution, Inc. Thank you. May I have a second? Second. Thank you. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. Thank you. That motion passes unanimously. The Director of Purchasing does not recommend shortlisting in accordance with the Procurement Code Section 21.42. The Evaluation Committee may, one, shortlist vendors and then score or rank only the shortlisted vendors, or two, score and or rank all responses. In accordance with the Florida Statute for Consultants' Competitive Negotiation Act, there shall be no fewer than three responsive responsible vendors evaluated. However, the Evaluation Committee determines the final number of vendors if shortlisting. Shortlisting is based on the Evaluation Committee's evaluation of vendors' entire submittals, including responses to the evaluation criteria. Does the committee have any discussion regarding shortlisting of vendors? Mr. Soto, sorry to interrupt you. If you could turn your mics on if you have any discussion and have that discussion publicly, please. I don't think we need to shortlist anybody. So, may I have a motion regarding shortlisting of vendors? I can make the motion. This is Carlos Adorizio. I would like to make a motion that the Evaluation Committee not further shortlist the proposers and that all responsive and responsible submissions remain under consideration for final evaluation. Thank you. And may I have a second? Second. Thank you. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. Thank you. That motion passes unanimously. So, we're going to skip, if you're following in the script, starting on page 10, 6.2, since we will not be shortlisting. And we're going to move all the way up to page 12, Section 7, Final Evaluation Committee meeting and announcements. The final Evaluation Committee meeting will be held on Friday, December the 19th, 2025 at 930 in the morning, and will include vendor presentations. At this time, I want to ask the Evaluation Committee members, as well as the project manager, if there are any particular topics or questions that you would like the vendors to specifically address during their presentations at that meeting on the 19th. And please note, individual questions may be asked to specific vendors during your question and answer period. And those do not have to be included in these topics or questions that you're going to propose now, if you have any. If you have any that you'd like included, when you're acknowledged, if you could please state your name and then the topics or questions. I'll start with you. Mr. Adorosio, do you have any specific topics? No. No? Thank you. Mr. Haynes, do you have any specific presentation topics to include? Thank you. And Mr. Soto-Fernandez, how about you? Yes. I'd like them to specifically talk about specific examples regarding SCADA integration in pump stations and the approach for such design and implementation. Thank you. I'll just restate that real quick so we're clear. Specific SCADA integration in pump stations experience and the approach in the design. Thank you. And Mr. Renoso? I'm sorry. Go right ahead. Approaching the design and implementation. And implementation. Thank you. Thank you. Sorry to cut you off. Okay, Mr. Renoso, any topics you'd like included? Your microphone. I heard you. Thank you very much. Okay. Now we are at the point in the meeting where the committee is going to establish the length of each of the vendors' presentations. That's going to be a set period of time that will apply to all vendors' presentations. But that time frame does not include the unlimited question and answer period that follows the presentations. So committee members, any discussion regarding the presentation length? And if you're going to discuss, if you could queue up your mics, please have that discussion publicly. 10 to 15 minutes. 15? 10? My name is Gerald Soto. May I have a motion to set the length of the presentations of the minutes? And we have a motion to set the length of the presentation to 10 minutes. Just before we think about on it, we believe that 10 minutes will be sufficient for the vendors to go through what they're offering and provide you enough information to make, you know, a reasonable, you know, determination. You guys are the experts, so I'm just making sure you can ask as much time as you want and there's a Q&A afterwards. So there's not necessarily a time needed based on your expertise. You know, make sure that the timings would be sufficient for the vendors. Perfect. So 15 minutes time and then some additional time for Q&A afterwards. And that will be unlimited or is that? So we have, it is unlimited, the question and answer period, but we did have a motion for Mr. Soto Fernandez for 10 minutes. So I need either to revise that motion or. Can I revise that motion? Of course. Yes, go right ahead. This is Gerald Soto. I'd like to revise the motion to set the time for the presentations to maximum of 15 minutes. Thank you. And may I have a second? Thank you. And all those in favor, say aye. Aye. Thank you. All right. That motion passes unanimously. So as established, each vendor will have 15 minutes for their presentation, followed by an unlimited question and answer session. All vendors will also have an additional five minutes to set up for their presentation in the team's meeting. So now we're going to turn back to the purchasing division at this time, and they're going to use a random list generator to determine the order of the vendors that will be presenting. They're going to pull something up on the screen in just a moment, and then we will read off the order of the presentations. So we have the five firms that have been found responsive and responsible. Ms. Olson, when you're ready, if you could read off the order, please. The order of presentations is as follows. HBC Engineering Company, number two, CSA Central Inc., number three, Chenmore & Associates Inc., number four is GFT Infrastructure Inc., and five is Premier Design Solutions Incorporated. Thank you. Thank you. We would like to thank all of the vendors that responded to our solicitation. We appreciate their time and look forward to their presentations and continued interest in working with Broward County. The time is 3.22 p.m., and this initial evaluation committee is now adjourned. Thank you very much.