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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, December 2, 2019 Page 20 Mr. Culver explained BKV did not provide a price and stated the price would be dependent on the level of engagement the city wanted to pursue above what BKV had in their proposal. He thought the range thrown out was ten to twenty thou- sand dollars. Councilmember Willmus indicated even at twenty thousand dollars that is $19,000 less than the LHB proposal. Mr. Culver explained the committee felt that even beyond the engagement, there was experience within the staff and general team of LHB as well as a more de- tailed task breakdown than what BKV gave to the committee. It appears that LHB has more time and effort in the concept development and evolution process than BKV had and the committee felt that was also valuable from the process of being able to use work sessions to evolve the concepts. Councilmember Willmus asked what type of timeline the proposers are looking at. Mr. Culver thought all of the teams were looking at a six- to seven-month process. Councilmember Groff stated a couple things came to his mind while doing a quick review of this. The city needs to be careful with the taxpayers money but he would also be concerned that the city will have something that everyone is re- ally happy with in the end and also something that might be forward thinking or a building or a campus design that is interesting in the future rather than looking back. His experience with LHB is that it is a little cookie cutter around the met- ropolitan area and State and looking through the documents, he thought BKV had some more interesting proposals from the aesthetics. Also looking at the chart that was provided, the experience performance of the firm, BKV actually came in higher and came in higher on the experience of assigned project manager. When the numbers were that much different in the dollar amount, at the end, it seemed like a big gap to him even though he was not in the meetings, which he knows af- fects things. Councilmember Etten indicated regarding BKV, one of the things mentioned is that BKV would engage another company outside of what is outlined in the pro- posal. He wondered what engagement that would be, other than what is in the timeline provided. Mr. Culver thought BKV was going to do the interviews with internal staff and department heads and also do a survey as well for internal staff. BKV was going to meet and work with the VFW to make sure the VFW was engaged in this pro- cess. A lot of this was as spelled out in the RFP. BKV was going to meet the minimum requirements but what was unclear was the amount of time spent with