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The Best Practice:Selecting a Professional Consultant
Canadian Public Procurement ForumOctober 6, 2010
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Association of Consulting Engineering Companies
• 500 engineering companies employing over 100, 000 employees
• Federation of 12 provincial and territorial associations
• Advocates sustainable infrastructure investment
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Challenges of engineering projects
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DELIVERYFISCAL
RESPONSIBILITY
SOCIETAL NEEDS
QUALITY &INNOVATION
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Engineering is a good investment
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Opportunities to improve outcomes
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Procurement is the key
• Establishing common objectives and desired outcomes
• Understanding cost-benefit-risk relationships
• Clarifying roles and responsibilities
• Selecting the right team for the right job
• Identifying required resources
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Selecting a Professional Consultant
• An InfraGuide Best Practice
• Developed by the public sector – for the public sector
• Based on extensive interviews and research
• Recommends “competitive qualifications-based process” (QBS)
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How does the Best Practice work?
• Focus on understanding client’s needs
• Proposals ranked based on providing service and achieving objectives
• A detailed scope is established with preferred proponent
• Appropriate fees and schedule are negotiated
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Best Practice is good policy
• Competitive and transparent process
• Focus on merit, quality and long-term value
• Long-term savings realized over decades
• Encourages in-house expertise to represent the client’s (and taxpayer’s) interests
• Permits innovation and sustainability
• Allows creative risk management options
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What’s in it for the client?
• The right team for the right job
• Realistic schedules and budgets
• Fewer change orders and disputes
• Better business relationship between parties
• Better service, better quality & better value for taxpayers
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Who uses this approach?
• QBS legislated by the US federal government and 44 state governments
• Municipalities across the US
• City of Calgary and the City of London
• Quebec legislation requires its ministries and agencies to use QBS for architectural and engineering services.
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QBS works (APWA Study 2009)
• Georgia Institute of Technology and University of Colorado reviewed over 200 projects across the USA
• 93% of clients expressed high or very high satisfaction with consultants selected using QBS
• QBS reduced construction cost growth by 70%
• QBS reduced schedule slippage by 20%
• QBS provided better ability to address societal issues or stakeholder concerns
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“Not everything that counts can be counted; and not everything that can be counted counts.”
- Albert Einstein, Famous Genius
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Association of Consulting Engineering Companies of Canada
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Federation of Canadian MunicipalitiesSustainable Communities Website www.sustainablecommunities.fcm.ca
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