Score: +1
(2/0/1)
San Francisco County Grand Jury
• 2014-2015
The Civil Grand Jury The Civil Grand Jury is a government oversight panel of volunteers who serve for one year.
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Findings 9 findings
F1
DPW should be commended for its adoption of the CMGC and design‐build structures in large‐scale projects and the Chapter 6 workgroup should be commended for working to streamline the construction contracting process in the City.
F2
The current lowest bid‐contracting environment is not optimal for the City, since it increases costs due to additional project change orders, and it reduces the number of quality contractors willing to bid on City projects.
F3
The complexity of the contracting environment, especially as it relates to LBEs, reduces the pool of contractors willing to do business with the City, thereby limiting vendor selection.
F4
Change orders are not managed uniformly across departments, which exposes the City to increased project costs.
F5
Construction contract close out procedures are not followed, which can result in the City not receiving the services it contracted to receive.
F6
The variety of construction projects in the City creates a mismatch between the design and engineering skills required for current projects and the skills of the staff, resulting in duplicate labor costs when outside firms are retained and excess capacity when there is a decline in construction activity.
F7
The lack of integrated construction management systems and the failure to follow centralized construction management policies and procedures prevents the City from generating citywide construction reports.
F8
The City does not have an independent management group reviewing citywide construction performance reports and monitoring adherence to change orders and construction contract close out policies and procedures.
F9
San Francisco City departments do not issue final reports on construction projects that are readily available to its citizens.
Recommendations 8
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R2The BOS should amend Chapter 6 of the Administrative Code to require contractor performance as an additional criterion for awarding construction contracts. San Francisco’s City Construction Program 25
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R3The CGJ recommends that the proposed Chapter 6 amendment make past performance a construction award criterion for all future City construction contracts including LBE subcontracts.
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R4The Office of the Controller should implement a standardized change order management policy and require all City departments to adhere to the new change order policy.
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R5The Office of the Controller should implement a standardized construction contract closeout policy and require all City departments to adhere to any new policy.
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R6The BOS should request BLA or CSA to benchmark the City’s design and engineering workforce organizational structure against comparable cities and issue a report within a reasonable timeframe.
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R7The Mayor should allocate financial resources in the current City budget to fund the Department of Technology hiring a consulting firm with extensive construction management expertise to develop citywide system requirements for the implementation of a construction management system.
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R8Within a reasonable timeframe, the BOS should either request the CSA or BLA, or retain an outside firm, to benchmark the independent construction management structure of other cities and develop recommendations applicable to San Francisco.
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R9The BOS should require each City department to issue final project construction reports within nine months of project completion for all construction projects and for the reports to be posted on each department’s website.
Agency Responses 2
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