Specifications include, but are not limited to: • Preparing Programming/Design Concept Review (DCR) level estimates to determine project budgets. • Preparing detailed construction estimates to be used for evaluating Contractor proposals for Construction Manager at Risk (CMAR) and Job Order Contracting (JOC) projects. • Performing detailed quantity take-offs and providing quantity verifications. • Evaluating Contractor proposals and providing support during negotiations for CMAR and JOC projects, change order requests, and claims. • Evaluating change order costs, analyzing schedule impacts, reviewing authorizations for time extensions and additional general conditions costs, with consideration to the City’s contract requirement for calculating delays and damages. • Conducting confidential market inquiries, consulting market indexes, and utilizing industry contacts for reporting to the City on current costs and availability or trends in labor, material, and equipment. • Evaluating Value Engineering proposals and alternatives. • Evaluating claims and providing support during settlement process. • Reviewing impact and estimation of non-city utilities, or other agencies coordination. • Preparing Constructability Review (CR) estimates to determine submitted proposal, bid package, or development comparison budget accuracy. • Evaluating plan quality, verification of plan callouts and quantities, review of missing items, quantity verification, unidentified conflicts on plans, conflicting information with plans, special provisions, and City of Phoenix Details. • Comparison of site conditions and design plans to ensure actual field conditions are accurately depicted on the plans. • Evaluating all aspects of a project scope, including the project plans, special provisions and identifying conflicts with contract documents. • Recommending construction phasing and the relative costs associated with phasing options. • Reviewing and checking project measurements and payment sections adequately address the scope of each bid item to ensure quantity take-off of major work items are valid.
