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Consent <br />INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO: Joseph A. Baird <br />County Administrator <br />DEPARTMENT HEAD CONCURRENCE: <br />Stan Boling, AI <br />Community De <br />lopment Director <br />FROM: Sasan Rohani, AICP J 1 G <br />Chief, Long -Range Planning <br />DATE: February 24, 2014 <br />Project: Request for Authorization to Advertise for a Request for Qualifications <br />(RFQ) for Housing Inspection Services <br />It is requested that the following information be given formal consideration by the Board of <br />County Commissioners at its regular meeting of March 4, 2014. <br />BACKGROUND <br />Currently, Indian River County manages several different affordable housing programs. One <br />major component of those programs is rehabilitation of existing housing units. For each major <br />home rehabilitation project, there is a need for the county to use work write-up and housing <br />inspection services to ensure that bids submitted by contractors for rehabilitation work is <br />necessary, adequately scoped, and reasonably priced. <br />Currently, only one firm is actually bidding on housing inspection jobs. In order to increase <br />competition and ensure availability of services, staff is seeking to qualify more firms through <br />the RFQ process. <br />ANALYSIS: <br />• Housing Rehabilitation Program <br />The State Housing Initiatives Partnership (SHIP) Program assists income eligible households <br />with housing rehabilitation projects. Through the SHIP program, the county assists with <br />emergency rehabilitation such as replacing a failed septic tank, minor rehabilitation such as <br />roof replacements, and major rehabilitation projects which require work write-ups from an <br />1 <br />67 <br />