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Atkins Realis tops Hillsborough County evaluation for Town and Country drainage project; committee recommends proceeding without oral presentations
Summary
An evaluation committee reviewing proposals for Hillsborough County's Town and Country regional drainage improvements ranked Atkins Realis first (103 points including bonus points), named Kimberly Horn and DRMP second and third, and by consensus recommended moving forward to recommend award without oral presentations. The committee recorded detailed criterion scores and reminded attendees of the cone-of-silence and the five-day protest period.
An evaluation committee for RPS '20 600059 — the Town and Country regional drainage improvements solicitation — ranked Atkins Realis as the top proposer and agreed by consensus to proceed toward recommending award without holding oral presentations.
Joe Wright, the county's senior buyer for the project, opened the committee meeting and explained the scoring matrix used to evaluate proposals, saying the solicitation set four scored criteria (ability of the firm and its personnel — 30 points; experience with similar projects — 50 points; willingness and ability to meet schedule and budget — 10 points; recent/current/projected workload — 10 points) plus three bonus-point categories for a 115-point maximum. Wright read the committee's final scores and bonus-point allocations: "Our number 1 ranked firm was Atkins Realis with 103 total points," Wright said, followed by Kimberly Horn with 93 and DRMP with 84.
Committee chair Mikhail Moberg led the detailed, criterion-by-criterion scoring discussions for each firm. For Atkins Realis the committee cited the prime team's institutional knowledge of the Town and Country concept-level permitting work and named Daniel Parsons as the project manager with relevant experience; the members recorded consensus scores for Atkins of 28 (ability), 45 (experience), 10 (schedule/budget) and 10 (workload), with bonus points added for small-business-enterprise and past performance categories to reach the reported 103 total. For other proposers, the committee debated the comparability of representative projects, the presence or absence of relevant modeling experience (for example, HC SWIM or Northwest 5 regional-model experience), and the availability of resumes for key personnel when assigning scores.
Wright summarized the ranking and asked whether the committee wanted oral presentations from the top firms or to move forward with a recommendation for award. Committee members signaled agreement to "no presentation," and the body reached a consensus to proceed without oral presentations. Wright reminded attendees that the county's cone of silence remains in effect until the notice-of-intent-to-recommend-award five-day protest period ends and that questions should be directed to him.
The meeting record contains the committee's consensus scores and the bonus-point allocations used to compute the final rankings. The committee did not take a formal roll-call vote; members recorded consensus scores verbally during the meeting and the chair reported the totals. The next procedural step is publication of the notice of intent to recommend award and the opening of the five-day protest period specified in the solicitation.
