DATE: June 18, 2025
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Councilmembers
FROM: Water Utilities Department
TITLE: PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT WITH HOCH CONSULTING FOR PROJECT MANAGEMENT SERVICES
RECOMMENDATION
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Staff recommends that City Council approve a Professional Services Agreement with Hoch Consulting, in the amount of $400,000, for project management services; and authorize the City Manager, or designee, to execute the agreement.
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BACKGROUND AND ANALYSIS
The Water Utilities Department's Capital Improvement Program (CIP) has a budget of approximately $80 million in Fiscal Year 2024-25. In Fiscal Year 2025-26 and Fiscal Year 2026-27, the CIP budget is projected to increase to $79 million and $125 million, respectively. These capital improvements reflect the City's long-term commitment to addressing aging infrastructure, expanding capacity, and increasing the reliability of the local water supply through water, sewer, and water reuse projects.
To effectively manage this growing workload, the Department has supplemented internal staffing with consultant support for project management roles. Since 2019, Hoch Consulting has provided these services under contract. At this time, the Department is recommending a limited extension of Hoch's contract to facilitate the strategic transition of certain project responsibilities to internal staff and/or other project management consultants. This transition is part of a broader effort to align project management resources with evolving workload demands and ensure continuity on active projects, while the Department completes a reassessment of long-term support needs.
On February 24, 2024, the City released a Request for Proposals (RFP) for project management services, and Hoch Consulting submitted a proposal, along with three other firms: Arma Group, Altiora Consulting, and MCFA. Upon review, staff determined that the other proposers either lacked the specific knowledge of the City's systems, projects, and req...
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