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City engineer outlines how Fort Myers selects consultants, construction managers
Summary
City Engineer Nicole Setzer walked the Economic Development Advisory Board through how the city procures consultants and construction managers, explaining continuing‑contract caps, selection committees and deliverables that limit contractor claims.
Nicole Setzer, the city engineer in Public Works, told the Economic Development Advisory Board that the city relies on continuing contracts for many consultant disciplines and on selection committees and scoring matrices for project‑specific procurements. "We have continuing contracts in things like civil engineering, utility engineering, surveying and mapping, landscape architecture," she said, describing a roughly dozen continuing agreements the city uses for design work.
Setzer spelled out monetary limits tied to continuing contracts and projects: "It can't be more than $500,000. If it is something that we are going to build, that build cannot be more than $7,500,000." She said the $7.5 million limit is set by state statute and described the committee process used when the city solicits proposals for a large project, including public short‑list presentations and a nonvoting design consultant who advises but does not cast a ballot.
The engineer emphasized the need to specify deliverables in scopes of services so contractors cannot later say they were unaware of requirements: deliverables can include 30/60/100% plans, a South Florida Water Management permit and man‑hour breakdowns for each task. She also described recent work rewriting the single‑project construction‑management agreement to control contingencies and limit which contractor personnel can bill to a project.
