Recommended Allowance for Construction Phase Professional Services

Recommended Allowance for Construction Phase Professional Services. The Allowance for Construction Phase Professional Services includes costs for engineering services during bidding, construction, and post-construction phases, observation during construction, Grant administration and other services (i.e. legal, audit, etc.) that are associated with the construction of the ARPA RWAIG project. The recommended allowance for construction phase professional services will be determined using Table 2 in this Subchapter. This table is not intended to be used to determine the actual compensation for construction phase professional services. Compensation for these professional services should be based upon the nature, scope, and complexity of the services required for the project. Table 2 separates the Total Recommended Allowance for Construction Phase Professional Services shown in the far-right hand column into three types of services: engineering, Grant administration, and other services and provides suggested ranges for each of these services depending upon the complexity of the project. The Grant applicant/recipient should consider these recommended ranges when evaluating proposals for these services. If the proposals exceed the normal ranges for any of these services, the Grant applicant/recipient should consider requiring the professional to justify why the project is more difficult than normal. The actual compensation justified for a particular project may be more or less than the suggested range of the allowance for these services shown in Table 2. If the consulting engineer and Grant applicant/recipient determine that the maximum recommended allowance calculated using Table 2 in this Subchapter does not adequately reflect the nature, scope, and complexity of the services required for the project, the consulting engineer may submit a detailed cost proposal, in such format as required by the Department, justifying a compensation amount greater than Table 2 recommends. If in the Department's opinion the detailed cost proposal justifies such, the Department will approve an allowance for construction phase professional services greater than those recommended in Table 2. The decision of the Department in this matter will be final. Although Table 2 shows engineering and Grant administration as separate costs, the Grant applicant/recipient is not required by these regulations to contract for these services separately. The Grant applicant/recipient may wish to have the consulting engineer provide both scopes of services, and under such an arrangement, the engineer's contract should not exceed the total of the suggested ranges for both services.