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Date: February 1°, 2017
To: John Griffin, CFO; Daniel Kooken, Purchasing Manager
From: Madeleine Mineau, Waterways Manager
Re: Contract for Downtown Waterfront Plan: Design, Planning, and Public Outreach Services
The Nashua River flows through the heart of downtown Nashua and the City wants to create a
waterfront plan to design and recommend improvements, amenities, and green space to fully
capitalize on this important resource. The plan will aim to enhance the quality of life for the
community and maximize economic and environmental value of the downtown riverfront area.
The downtown waterfront plan will articulate and illustrate the community’s vision of the
riverfront for the next 10 to 20 years. The plan will identify and prioritize a list improvement
projects for the downtown waterfront and develop cost estimates to implement these projects. It
is anticipated that this project will take 4 months including an extensive public participation
component and producing the plan.
On November 23” 2016, we issued RFP0265-011317 for Design, Planning, and Public Outreach
Services for the development of a Downtown Waterfront Plan. We received 15 proposals, of
those 5 were considered not acceptable because they did not include the acknowledgment of RFP
addendum. The 10 complete proposals that we received were the following:
Name of Firm Location of Firm__| Proposed cost
Harriman Portsmouth, NH $49,635
CEC Inc. Pittsburgh, PA $50,000
Pathways Consulting, LLC Lebanon, NH $49,780
Klopfer Martin Design Group Boston, MA $42,500
Halvorson Design Partnership Boston, MA $49,000
Utile Design Inc Boston, MA $50,000
TF Moran Bedford, NH $42,500
WRT Philadelphia, PA $50,000
Ironwood Design Group Newmarket, NH $49,750
Beta Group Inc. Manchester, NH $44,900
These proposals were evaluated and ranked by a team consisting of: Sarah Marchant, CDD
Director; Tim Cummings, Economic Development Director; James Vayo, Downtown Specialist;
and Madeleine Mineau, Waterways Manager. The criteria for evaluation of each proposal were:
1. Qualifications and experience of the project team, 2. Past performance and service on similar
projects, 3. Proposed approach to the scope of work, and 4. Cost Proposal.
Based on their experience and expertise, past performance on similar projects, as well as
competitive cost proposal, the team unanimously selected Halvorson Design Partnership. The
