Agency TRANSPORTATION DEPT

Contractor Athey Creek Consultants, LLC

SWIFT Contract Number 68146

Project Name Cost Participation Policy Update

Project Number (if applicable) 4482

Summarize purpose of the contract, including why it was necessary: The purpose of the contract was to provide technical writing services and to coordinate a large volume of stakeholder comments into the completed and to record those comments in an organized manner that would allow for easy review of how comments were addressed or incorporated into the final document. There were no MnDOT employees with the required technical writing skills available at the time to perform the work.

Project Duration

Start Date Wed, 09/04/2013 - 00:00

Original end date Fri, 01/31/2014 - 00:00

Actual end date Fri, 01/31/2014 - 00:00

Did project finish on time? Yes

Total billable hours utilized (if applicable) {Empty}

Contract Amounts

Original contract: $54781.89

Amendments $0

Contract total $54781.89

Did project finish within budget? Yes

What was the funding source? Trunk highway funds, consultant budget

Is this a sole source contract? No

If this was a single source contract, explain why the agency determined there was only a single source for the services (if applicable) {Empty}

Evaluator Name Mark Gieseke

Evaluator Email Address mark.gieseke@state.mn.us

Evaluate the contractor's timeliness Contractor met all the deadlines

Evaluate the contractor's quality The quality of the contractor’s work was excellent.

Evaluate the contractor's cost The contractor came in under the budget.

Evaluate the contractor's overall performance The overall performance was excellent. The contractor created a comment tracking system that made the work process very transparent to any who cared to monitor the status of changes to the policy document. The contractor was very flexible and accommodated the project’s need for some compressed delivery and meeting times

Would you engage the contractor's services again? Yes

Describe any negative action taken during the duration of this contract (i.e., termination, pursuit of suspension, etc.): NONE

Please rate the overall experience with the contractor 5 - very satisfied