Specifications include, but are not limited to: The City of Los Angeles (City) seeks to engage a consultant to provide Embodied Carbon Analysis Services. The scope of the work includes: (1) Project Planning and Mobilization; (2) Analysis of City Expenditure Data; (3) Assessment of City Expenditure Data for Embodied Carbon Emissions; and, (4) Identification of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Reduction Opportunities in City Procurement Activities. The Contract Administrator for this engagement will be the CAO CIT. This TOS is divided into Tasks with specific objectives and deliverables. These Tasks are generally sequential and described as follows: Task 1: Project Planning and Mobilization The CAO CIT shall organize a virtual kick-off meeting. The purpose of the meeting is to: ● Introduce the Project staff members on both City and Consultant teams; ● Define lines of communication with Project management staff and stakeholders; and, ● Discuss Task objectives, resources, and schedule requirements. The Consultant shall draft a Project plan to: ● Outline the Tasks, timelines, deliverables and milestones for completing all analysis, inventory development, and reporting; ● Indicate clear timeframes and/or plans for: ○ Providing progress/percent completed updates to the CAO CIT; ○ Periodic meetings where the Consultant maintains meeting agenda, minutes and action items; ○ Issue resolution and quality assurance; ○ Monitoring incurred costs/expenditure rate; ○ Rounds of review and comments for each deliverable, with a log of all comments and changes incorporated; and, ○ An electronic file delivery method; and, ● Build in as-needed but no more than two (2) rounds of CAO CIT review and comment for each Task and deliverable. The Consultant activities shall include, but are not limited to: ● Participation in a kick-off meeting; and, ● Prepare a detailed Project plan described above and submit a draft to the CAO CIT three to five business days after the kick-off meeting.