Agency Pollution Control Agency

Contractor AECOM

SWIFT Contract Number 13156

Project Name St. Louis Park Solvent Plume, MacGill & Gibbs, Hmo

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Summarize purpose of the contract, including why it was necessary: The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and the Minnesota Department of Agriculture are authorized to respond to the releases of petroleum, hazardous substances, and pollutants or contaminants, which have been reported to the State or in which the State suspects there has been a release. At some of these release sites "responsible persons" have not been identified or are unwilling or unable to proceed with a required site investigation and/or corrective action. Multiple contractors are sought to conduct tasks including Corrective Action Design Systems, Petroleum-Only Environmental Services, Superfund-Only Environmental Services, and Environmental Services.

Project Duration

Start Date Fri, 07/01/2011 - 00:00

Original end date Wed, 06/30/2010 - 00:00

Actual end date Sat, 06/30/2012 - 00:00

Did project finish on time? Yes

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Contract Amounts

Original contract: $41319

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Contract total $41319

Did project finish within budget? Yes

What was the funding source? MERLA/ Superfund

Is this a sole source contract? No

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Evaluator Name Chris McLain

Evaluator Email Address chris.mclain@state.mn.us

Evaluate the contractor's timeliness The contractor completed the project within the original schedule

Evaluate the contractor's quality The quality of deliverables received was satisfactory.

Evaluate the contractor's cost The budget management was good. One change order was needed to rebudget, in order to cover additional modeling costs. No invoices were disputed.

Evaluate the contractor's overall performance At the Hmong American Center AECOM sampled a day care for vapor concerns. At the St. Louis Park Solvent Plume Site AECOM did vapor sample at Flame Metals and did a report consolidating vapor data for the site. At Macgillis and Gibbs AECOM put together a report on dtat compliation and review of EPA data.

The work at the Hmong Center was good. Access was obtained, samples collected and a report generated.
The work at the St. Louis Park Solvent Plume was to assess Flame Metals for vapor concerns and to generate a report mapping site data. Work on this site was good. The site report was completed so that a draft could be reviewed by MPCA prior to submitting a final version.

At the MacGillis and Gibbs site AECOm has worked well with CH2M HIll obtaining data and site computer models. The evaluation of the EPA data presented ways to look at new models and/or different ways to evaluate the current site cleanup.

Would you engage the contractor's services again? Yes

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Please rate the overall experience with the contractor 4 - satisfied