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Committee recommends contracts with four firms for plan‑check and inspection services
Summary
The committee heard a presentation from Ty Chao and recommended that the City Council authorize the mayor to execute three‑year professional services agreements (with a two‑year extension option) with JAS Pacific, Willdan Engineering, M6 Consulting and Bureau Veritas for building, engineering and fire plan‑check and inspection services, with specified dollar caps and funding from the Community Development and Fire Department budgets.
Ty Chao, assistant community development director, told the Community Services, Public Safety, Housing, and Economic Development Committee that the city is recommending professional services agreements with four firms to handle peaks in building and fire plan‑check workload.
Chao said the city received 12 proposals in response to a request for qualifications advertised Jan. 28, 2026, and that a panel made up of staff from the Fire Department and the Building and Engineering division of the Community Development Department scored and ranked the submissions. The panel recommended JAS Pacific, Willdan Engineering, M6 Consulting and Bureau Veritas for building and engineering plan‑check and inspection work; JAS Pacific, Willdan and M6 for fire plan check.
The recommendation presented to the committee would authorize the mayor to execute three‑year professional services agreements with an option for one two‑year extension. Dollar caps presented were: JAS Pacific, $1,250,000, and Willdan Engineering, $500,000, for building and engineering plan check and inspection; M6 Consulting, $1,750,000, for engineering and survey plan check and inspection; and Bureau Veritas, $750,000, for engineering and survey plan check and inspection. For fire plan check services the recommendation would authorize JAS Pacific and Willdan Engineering not to exceed $750,000 each and M6 Consulting not to exceed $2,000,000.
Chao said the long‑term model remains performing the majority of plan check in‑house, but persistent staff vacancies and an increase in workload driven primarily by housing projects — including multi‑story apartments, condominiums and accessory dwelling units — have made consultant support necessary to address unexpected peaks. "The use of consultant services is expected to cover more than several years," Chao said.
On finance, Chao said all expenditures under these agreements by the Community Development Department and the Oxnard Fire Department would utilize available funds in their respective budgets. He identified funding sources for the agreements as the general fund and "CUPA funds" as stated in the presentation; no further breakdown was provided.
The committee was asked to recommend that the City Council authorize the mayor to execute the agreements as presented. The presentation concluded with Chao saying, "That concludes the presentation. Thank you." The transcript records no committee vote or final council authorization at this meeting; the item was presented as a recommendation to the City Council.
