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WATER COLLABORATIVE DELIVERY NEWS
February 23, 2022
Issue Highlights
Meet WCDA Third Vice President Tom Visosky, PE
Coming Soon - New CMAR Procurement Guide
Blog Feature - Using Collaborative Delivery to Mitigate Supply Chain Disruption
Legislative Corner - WCDA Pursues Legislation on Collaborative Delivery Methods in California
Meet WCDA Third Vice President/Advisor Liaison Tom Visosky, PE
Tom Visosky, PE, based in Los Angeles, CA, is a vice president with CDM Constructors Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of CDM Smith that is focused on collaborative delivery and construction solutions. Tom has 25 years of significant experience in planning, conceptual design, final design, pre-
construction, construction, and commissioning of large water resource projects throughout the US and Australia, and has served as a project director, project manager, technical advisor/quality manager, pre-construction manager, and lead project engineer on these projects. He has expertise in all forms of delivery, including fixed-price design-build, progressive design-build, construction management at-risk (CMAR), design-build-operate, public-private partnerships (P3), and design-bid-build. At CDM Smith, Tom promotes and implements best practices in collaborative delivery and serves as an industry advocate for the value of integrated and collaborative approaches in delivering water and wastewater infrastructure projects.
Tom was instrumental in creating the WCDA advisor group and recently served as co-chair of the Research Committee that produced the 2021 Phase I Research Report.
WCDA Releasing New CMAR Procurement Guide Soon
The Water Collaborative Delivery Association Technical Practices Committee chaired by Michelle Green (Jacobs) has been hard at work for the past year updating and enhancing our Construction Management at-Risk Procurement Guide. The WCDA has developed this user-friendly procurement guide, along with a one-step request for qualifications/proposal (RFQ/RFP) and two-step request for qualifications (RFQ) and request for proposal (RFP) templates for conducting CMAR procurements effectively and in accordance with best practices. By discussing key considerations in preparing RFQs and RFPs, this procurement guide will assist owners in identifying the most appropriate CMAR procurement process for a particular project and in preparing RFQs and RFPs that will promote each owner’s interests and objectives.
Release date to be announced soon! Stay tuned to this space for updates.
Using Collaborative Delivery to Mitigate Supply Chain Disruption
When we emerge from the extreme days of the COVID environment, there will be some lingering effects that become a permanent part of our way of doing business. Management of the supply chain is probably one of the most significant.
I was at a national association conference last month with nearly two thousand attendees. Last year I moderated a panel at the same conference talking about early supply chain engagement. The reception from the audience was interest, but not urgency. Fast forward a year and the same conference had a thread of supply chain issues running through every presentation. We’ve all seen the pictures of backed-up ocean freighters parked off the west coast. We’ve seen costs for construction commodities rise to 200% or 300% of previously predicable prices in under a year. The existing way of handling these risks has not responded to the challenges.
WCDA Pursues Legislation on Collaborative Delivery Methods in California
The Water Collaborative Delivery Association is leading a coalition of industry practitioners to sponsor legislation this year that would allow for the use of collaborative delivery methods (CM/GC or PDB) in a much broader context in the state of California. WCDA is working with Keith Dunn of Dunn Consulting in Sacramento along with association leadership and member firms that are active in the state. Last week, Senate Bill 991 (SB 991) was introduced by Senator Newman of the 29th Senate district of California. SB 991 as a legislative proposal provides:
A more precise definition of progressive design-build (PDB)
A more precise definition of qualifications-based selection (QBS)
Limited application to projects over $5M
Additional language to allow sharing of costs below GMP to be shared, based on pre-established percentages defined in the RFQ
Limited subcontractor listing requirements exceeding one-half of 1% allocable to projects with a contract value greater than or equal to $10M
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