Good morning. Can I get a mic check, please test one two good morning? Can I get a mic check? I? Yes, sir. Can you hear us? Yes, I can hear you guys. Thank you Sierra, can you contact James voice and ask him to join the meeting, please? Sierra? Can you confirm you can hear us? Sarah? We cannot hear you. Can you hear me again? Yes Sarah, can you please confirm if James is going to join the meeting? Colleen, could you please check your mic? We want to make sure the audio in the room is okay. Okay. Thank you. I was able to get in contact with James. He's hopping on. Good afternoon, everyone. Thanks for your patience. I'm Christine Shorey, Senior Purchasing Manager and the meeting facilitator. I'd like to call to order this initial evaluation committee meeting or RFP number PNC 213-1324-P1 Airport Safety Assessment, North Perry Airport, HWO for the Broward County Aviation Department. The time is 1210 PM on March 24th, 2026. This meeting is being held through Microsoft Teams. representatives from the county are physically here in room GC 430 of the governmental center building east located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, or virtually through Teams. Attendees, if you could please mute the microphones on your devices to limit any 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. 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 the 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 may then proceed to the final evaluation committee meeting for presentations and ranking. At the time of the solicitations deadline on January 20th, 2026 at 2 PM, three proposals had been received. Meeting attendance is recorded in the following ways. The purchasing division records attendance of county staff physically here in room GC 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 team's chat section to complete that sign-in sheet. And for any attendees that cannot access the link or the QR code in the team's chat if you can email the purchasing agent Johanna de Francisco at ydfrancisco at Broward.org with the subject EC meeting attendance and indicate your name your title and the company you represent in the email body. The following are the county's project staff. Johanna de Francisco senior purchasing agent, Armando Tinio project manager planning division Broward county aviation department, Javier Navas and Alexander Williams county attorney's office, James Vose office of economic and small business development, and Colleen Punal risk management division. We do have a quorum present with the following evaluation committee members. Committee members if you could please say present after your name is called. Michael Nonnemaker, deputy director aviation aviation department. Present. Gasser Dugier, engineering unit supervisor capital projects division aviation department. Present. And Gia Bean, assistant general manager transportation department. Present. Thank you. It is the evaluation committee's responsibility to review the vendor's 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 three of chapter 112 of the Florida statutes and the Broward county employee code of ethics. All evaluation committee members and the project manager 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 the solicitation with the commissioner's office county staff or a member of the evaluation committee. The cone of silence shall terminate when the awarding authority takes action which ends the solicitation. During the cone of silence inquiries regarding this solicitation should be directed to the project manager or to the director of purchasing and or his designee. Also vendors may communicate with designated representatives from the office of economic and small business development at any time regarding the solicitation small business enterprise or county business enterprise participation. And 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 standard terms and conditions. Thank you. Proposals were received from the following vendors American Infrastructure Development Inc., DPPS Asset Management Inc., and Faith Group LLC. The solicitation had three responsiveness requirements involving compliance. Criminal history, screening practices certification, lobbyist registration requirement certification, and pricing requirement. The director of purchasing recommends that all vendors be deemed responsive to all responsiveness requirements. The solicitation had six areas of responsibility requirements. Affiliated entities of the principles, financial information, information, foreign country of concern requirements, insurance requirements, litigation history, office of economic and small business development program requirements. Two of the three vendors provided the required documentation for evaluation committees review for responsibility. The following compliance concerns were identified. DPPS Asset Management Inc. did not meet the county business enterprise CBE goal requirement. Referred to the OASBD review memorandum attached to the director of purchasing memorandum for additional information. In response to the draft director of purchasing memorandum 48-hour memo, specifically the OASBD review memorandum, DPPS Asset Management Inc. provided a response which has been distributed to the evaluation committee. The solicitation required vendors to state whether they accept Broward County's term standard terms and conditions, or if they do not accept them, to identify the agreement provisions and vendors proposed changes. All three vendors accepted the county's standard terms and conditions without exceptions. This concludes purchasing 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? Hearing none, may I have a motion with respect to the responsiveness of the vendor submittals? 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? I have a question. I have a question. This is Mike Nonamaker. Yes, sir. So, in the documentation that we received, it says that DPPS did not meet the requirements, DPPS Asset Management, Inc. They indicated that they were going to partner with Patriot Logistics Group, but then we later received information that said in their letter that they were going to partner with two other groups. I believe that that was ASA Consultants and Professional Risk Control Consulting Services. Is there any clarification on if they've actually done anything, or is there any update before we make the motion? So, I'd ask Mr. Vose to respond to Mr. Nonamaker's question regarding the partnership to meet the CBE participation goal and the good faith efforts of the firm, DPPS Asset Management. Mr. Vose? Yes. Good afternoon, everyone. First, can everybody hear me? Yes, we can. Thank you. Okay. I'll just give you a brief overview. Initially, when I received this proposal to evaluate the firms, DPPS Asset Management did not meet the goal. But by ordinance rule, we are to give them three business days to either meet the goal, put together a CBE subconsultant team, or submit their good faith efforts, which we communicated and I explained the process. But during that period, they did not submit information for a CBE certified firm. They did have a firm that was a local business, but it was a veteran-owned business, and it was not certified. So, therefore, they didn't meet their goal. Okay. Thank you for the clarification. Questions? Go right ahead. James, and after that, they still haven't provided any other documentation since then? Well, they provided a couple letters stating their intentions, but as far as cooperating with the program, but no submissions. No submissions. Okay. No LOI or anything like that, right? Exactly. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? Okay. Then this is Mike Nonamaker, and I would like to make a motion to find DPPS Asset Management non-responsible to the solicit. Thank you. May I have a second? Yes, sir. I second the motion. Thank you. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. Thank you. So that motion passes unanimously. That's regarding non-responsible determination of DPPS Asset Management. Now, may I have a motion regarding responsibility of remaining firms? This is Michael Nonamaker. I would like to make a motion to find Faith Group, and I want to make sure I get the name right. The last page, if it helps, of the script has the list of all the firms. The Faith Group and American Infrastructure Development, Inc., responsible to the solicitation. Thank you. May I have a second? GABN, I second. Thank you. All those in favor, say aye. 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 Michael Nonamaker. I will make a motion to find American Infrastructure Development, Inc., and Faith Group, LLC, both responsive and responsible to their solicitation. Thank you. May I have a second? GABN, I second the motion. Thank you. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Thank you. That motion passes unanimously. So the final Evaluation Committee meeting will be held Monday, April the 6th, 2026, at 10 a.m., and will include vendor presentations. Evaluation Committee members and the project manager, I want to pose an opportunity for you to provide any topics or questions that you would like the vendors to specifically address during their presentations. Please note individual questions may be asked to specific vendors during the question and answer period and do not have to be topics or questions to all vendors. If yes, when you're acknowledged, if you could state your name and then the topics or the questions. Mr. Nonamaker, we'll start with you. Yep, Mike Nonamaker, I have three things. Throughout these proposals, there's references to construction projects, master plans, runway taxiway projects, construction oversight. What I'd like to know in the presentations is how that compares and qualifies for a safety assessment. So I need to see what those transferable skills are. Okay. Thank you. Number two, there was a safety assessment done of North Perry Airport in 2021. I'd like to hear from the proposers as to what they plan that is going to be different than that 2021 study. Thank you. And the third thing is in the proposals, there is reference to formal safety management system programs at commercial service air. What I'd like to hear in the presentations is we are talking about a smaller general aviation airport, not a commercial service airport. How will the assessment, you know, what will they propose the assessment and how it will be done outside of a formal safety management system program? Okay. Did I make sense? Yes, completely. Yep. Okay. Mr. Dujay, go right ahead. Yes, sir. Dujay, first question is what other airports the firm would choose to benchmark their study against for North Perry? Okay. Item number two would be what would they do to help promote, describe the processes or activities that they would recommend for promoting community and user involvement. Okay. And finally, reading the scope of work, do they think they are able to respond to all the scope of work that is very expensive, expansive, EXPN? Yes. Yes. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. So their approach to responding to the expansive scope and confirmation. Okay. Gia? I'd like to, this is J.B.N. I'd like to see if there has been any past successful implementation of innovative tools to do this type of study, safety assessment, with similar scope. And if so, present how that can be used successfully here. Okay. And Mr. Tinio, did you have any topics or questions you want them to cover? No. I will not be adding anything else. I think Michael, Nanamaker, and Gasser both touched upon the items that I wanted to touch upon as well. Okay. Thank you very much. Any follow-up questions or topics? Okay. The evaluation committee establishes the length of the vendor presentations, and that time does not include the unlimited Q&A period. Is there any discussion from the committee regarding the vendor presentation length? This is Mike Nanamaker. The only thing I would add is that there's significant focus on this initiative. It is one of the outstanding items from the town hall meeting that was done with Commissioner Davis back in August. So I would recommend that we give the vendors a good enough time to be able to discuss how they're really going to pull this off. So I would say at least 20 minutes would be a good amount of time, but I wouldn't go shorter than that. This is GAP, and I agree. I think 20 minutes is a good amount of time. So are you saying 20 minutes minimum, or do you want to set a maximum? Well, I would say for the proposers, they could put together a 20-minute presentation, and we have their qualifications. So one of the things I would recommend is you don't have to go over the history of your company and all that. Get to the meat of what you're going to do for Broward County in 20 minutes, and then we can Q&A for as long as it is. Okay, I agree. Okay, sounds like we have a motion to set the presentation length. Okay, Mike Nonamaker, I'll make a motion to set the presentation length at 20 minutes, and then Q&A out. Thank you. May I have a second? GAP and I second. Thank you. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. Thank you. That motion passes unanimously. So as established, each vendor will have 20 minutes for their presentation, including those topics we just discussed. Followed by an unlimited question and answer session. All vendors will have up to five minutes to set up for their presentation in the team's meeting. At this time, the purchasing agent is going to take over the screen and use a random list generator to determine the order of the vendor presentations. One moment, and then we'll announce the order. So she's taking the two responsive and responsible firms, putting them in the generator, and going to run it to get the order of presentations. So the order of vendor presentations, the first to present will be American Infrastructure Development, Inc., and the second to present will be the Faith Group, LLC. Committee members, is there any other business that needs to be discussed today? None. We would like to thank all vendors that responded to the solicitation. We appreciate your time and interest in working with Broward County. Thank you to the committee members as well and our project manager. Look forward to seeing you on the 6th of April. The time is 12.31 p.m., and this initial evaluation committee is adjourned. Thank you. Sabina Chaudhry is now exiting.