Finance Committee - 07/15/2020 Page 16
Director Marchant
Great question; this is a from scratch new document. So certainly the Master Plans that have gone in the past
and | would say the ones that have been completed more recently would be more informative today than the
ones from say 20 years ago. But this will be a brand new document. There is a giant list of things that we do
expect the consultants to be very familiar with and to use as kind of background information, everything from
say the East Hollis Street plan, the Main Street plan, the Riverfront plan. The bike/ped plan we are working on
right now, all of these documents we’ve been working on to give some kind of shape and context. But the
point of this is to engage with our community, to ask those harder questions and to really understand what
Nashua sees itself as today and where do we want to be in 5 years from now and 10 years from now so we
can make sure our Ordinances reflect those values.
Alderman Klee
Just one follow up, just for clarification, this has nothing to do with any kind of the parking studies or anything
else like these are two very separate unique items, correct?
Director Marchant
That is correct. This is a high level review, that parking study is going to be really detailed.
Alderman Klee
OK thank you very much.
Alderwoman Lu
Director Marchant is the comparison of the quotes that page that has the words “Draft Fee Proposal” at the top
left of it?
Director Marchant
So this was an RFQ, it was not an RFP there were not quotes that came back with all eight of them. We
interviewed them based on qualifications. The qualifications the evaluation that stated in the Memo and then
based on those qualifications we selected a firm and entered into negotiations with them. We did ask as part
of the response to the RFQ to give us their general hourly rates. | do have that information from each of the
RFQ’s, | could supply that to you. But it was not, we don’t have quotes from all of the respondents.
Alderwoman Lu
| see but what is the fee?
Director Marchant
The fee is $200,483.00.
Alderwoman Lu
Oh | see it now. Thank you.
Director Marchant
You're welcome.
