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. . . PCI Ratings for City Streets May 12, 2005 Page 3 of5 . User-friendly pavement condition rating; . Accurate and consistent pavement condition scores; . Low initial cost; . Affordable long-term updating, compared to systems such as Micro-Pave or the PCI method. They have used the PASER method for projects III LeCenter, Babbitt, and West Bend, Wisconsin. Bonestroo is quoting a price of$10,500 for the initial street ratings. This would include: · Task 1: Project management (oversight, minutes, schedules, budget reports) . Task 2: Project initiation (meeting with staff, data collection including maps, photos and segment data) · Task 3: Setup of an excel spreadsheet to incorporate existing data and direct entry of the new data (i.e. the assignment of a condition score 0-100), and discernment of the existence of drainage systems. · Task 4: Extract pavement Condition Data from Field Reviews (using the PASER method to assign condition values to the City streets). Bonestroo offered some additional options. Periodic Condition Updates would cost $10,500 per year (each time the entire city was done) or they could train our staff to perform this. Establishing a database would cost $8,600, and drainage evaluation would cost $5,010. As noted with the GoodPointe proposal, staff feels it would be premature and costly to proceed with the options, until such time that we have established our in-house engineering capabilities. PROPOSAL ANALYSIS Staff is in favor of contracting with GoodPointe for the 2005 PCl program. There are several reasons why we are making this recommendation: 1. Cost: GoodPointe can provide a basic PCI rating process for us at the cost of $4,500. This is significantly below Bonestroo's basic proposal ($10,500) and is also below our budgeted amount of$15,000. 2. Engineering Services: We are currently in the process of studying the issue of staff engineering services. We feel it would be pre-mature to do more than the basic PCI ratings this year, until we know whether we will be hiring someone on staff, joining forces with another city, or pursuing a different option. We feel confident that GoodPointe can provide the basic PCI rating information we need in order to prepare a pavement management plan, assist with prioritization of projects, and be a resource for CIP/budget preparation. 3. Consistencv: For now, GoodPointe continues our tradition of using a numerical pavement condition index based on visual surface inspection. The Bonestroo proposal