Primary Department: Flood Control District
Primary Department Head/Elected Official: Tina Petersen, Ph.D., P.E., Executive Director
Secondary Department: N/A
Secondary Department Head/Elected Official: N/A
Regular or Supplemental RCA: Regular RCA
Type of Request: Contract - Amendment
Project ID (if applicable): Z100-00-00-P031
Vendor/Entity Legal Name (if applicable): Fivengineering, LLC dba 5engineering
MWBE Contracted Goal (if applicable): 19.6%
MWBE Current Participation (if applicable): 100%
Justification for 0% MWBE Participation Goal: N/A - Goal not applicable to request
Grant Indirect Costs Rate (if applicable): N/A
Justification for 0% Grant Indirect Costs Rate (if applicable): N/A - Not a grant item
Request Summary (Agenda Caption):
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Request for approval of amendment No. 1 to an agreement with Fivengineering, LLC dba 5engineering, in the amount of $150,000, to provide additional engineering consulting services to augment the Flood Control District’s staff for drainage report reviews (Project ID Z100-00-00-P031, Agreement No. 2023-52, Countywide, MWBE Contracted Goal: 19.6%, MWBE Current Participation: 100%).
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Background and Discussion:
This amendment will provide for additional drainage impact analysis review support for the Watershed Management Department. The Watershed Department receives Drainage Impact Analyses (DIA) for Hydrology and Hydraulics review by Risk Mitigation Department staff. This effort helps ensure that proposed projects do not adversely impact the flood risk of others. The Risk Mitigation Department reviewers are complimented by augmented staff who may be assigned DIA reviews, especially when the reviews utilize specialized software such as XPSWMM.
Expected Impact:
This amendment will provide improved reviews of drainage impact analyses that utilize specialized software and reduce average review turnaround time as it reduces the case load for the in-house reviewers.
Alternative Options:
The alternative to approving this item would be to hire an in-house reviewer with background in the various other software packages necessary to complete the reviews, and to purchase licenses to each of those software packages, which would result in significant short term delays in drainage impact analysis reviews while some reviews are entirely put on hold, and others are slowed due to decreased capacity while a candidate search and hiring process was executed.
County Strategic Plan Goal: 5. Minimize the impact of climate change and disasters.
County Strategic Plan Objective: N/A
Justice/Safety Initiative (Goal 1): N/A
Infrastructure Initiative (Goal 2): N/A
Economy Initiative (Goal 3): N/A
Health Initiative (Goal 4): N/A
Climate/Resilience Initiative (Goal 5): N/A
Housing Initiative (Goal 6): N/A
Additional notes related to the Strategic Plan: N/A
Prior Court Action (if any):
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05/07/2024 |
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Agreement |
Location: N/A
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Precinct(s): Countywide
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County Attorney’s Office Legal Review (for Harris County Code Items only) |
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Anticipated Court Date: 2/12/2026
Anticipated Implementation Date (if different from Court date): Click or tap to enter a date.
Emergency/Disaster Recovery Note: Not an emergency, disaster, or COVID-19 related item
Contact(s) name, title, department: Yesenia Martinez, Commissioners Court Coordinator, Flood Control District
Attachments (if applicable): Agreement