Agency Pollution Control Agency

Contractor Barr Engineering Company

SWIFT Contract Number 157006

Project Name Chloride Source Assessment Model and BMP developme

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Summarize purpose of the contract, including why it was necessary: Create a new chloride source assessment model and generate the BMPs and needed water softening data for the Smart Salting Assessment tool that will allow Minnesota communities to fully evaluate their specific sources and magnitude of chloride and develop a community specific chloride reduction plan.

Project Duration

Start Date Mon, 05/06/2019 - 00:00

Original end date Thu, 06/30/2022 - 00:00

Actual end date Thu, 06/30/2022 - 00:00

Did project finish on time? Yes

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Contract Amounts

Original contract: $169999.47

Amendments $-43069.74

Contract total $126902.73

Did project finish within budget? Yes

What was the funding source? State

Is this a sole source contract? No

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Evaluator Name Brooke Asleson

Evaluator Email Address brooke.asleson@state.mn.us

Evaluate the contractor's timeliness Dissatisfied:
While extra time was given due to the pandemic, deliverables were mostly all behind schedule even after the project got back on track.

Evaluate the contractor's quality Dissatisfied:
The quality of the work was less than expected. It felt as though the contractor didn’t have time to dedicate to this project.

Evaluate the contractor's cost Neutral

Evaluate the contractor's overall performance Dissatisfied:
The communication from the contractor was almost always in response to a request for project updates and timelines. There was no proactive communication from the contractor. The response on requests was sometimes not acknowledged until follow-up action was taken and was not handled in a timely manner.

Would you engage the contractor's services again? No

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Please rate the overall experience with the contractor 2 - dissatisfied