Title/Name/Summary
Hey and Associates, Inc. - Contract for Plan Review and Landscape Architect Services
History
The Village’s contract with its current landscape consultant, Planning Resources, Inc. (PRI), is set to expire at the end of 2017. PRI has been the Village’s landscape consultant since 2001. Since then, the process of soliciting and reviewing alternative landscape consultation services to ensure the Village is receiving the highest quality services at the most cost effective rate has not been conducted. Furthermore, recent updates to Section 6-305 Landscape and Tree Preservation of the Land Development Code and to the landscape review and inspection process as a whole have changed the way the Village is approaching the landscape plan review process, which has implications for the role of the Village’s landscape consultant.
As such, the Village issued a Request for Qualifications (RFQ #17-036) for Plan Review and Landscape Architect Services on August 25, 2017. The goals of issuing the RFQ were two-fold: 1) to compare and contrast a broad range of landscape firm capabilities and qualifications to those currently being provided to the Village; and 2) to determine which firm could best help the Village implement the requirements of the new landscape review process.
By the submission deadline on September 11, 2017, the Village had received eleven (11) qualifying submissions. The following firms submitted proposals:
- Farnsworth Group
- GreenbergFarrow
- Hey and Associates, Inc.
- J.G.S. Landscape Architects
- The Lakota Group
- Planning Resources, Inc.
- RGC Design
- Site Design Group Ltd.
- Teska Associates
- V3 Companies of Illinois
- Gary R. Weber Associates, Inc.
A landscape consultant Selection Committee of four (4) Development Services Department staff members was chosen to evaluate submittals, conduct interviews and ultimately recommend a landscape consultant to the Village Board for approval. The Selection Committee used the scope...
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