Miami-Dade County Public Schools

PACO served as a prime consultant providing cost estimating and scheduling services for various school facilities with the Miami-Dade School District, the fourth largest public school system in the country with a capital improvement program totaling more than $1 billion over the course of five years.

Project Overview.  Our work involves preparing detailed cost estimates for educational facilities at varying levels of project completion; conducting comparative cost analyses of different building systems to determine cost effectiveness; conducting value engineering studies of selected projects; analyzing change-order requests presented by contractors; and assisting the board in development of bidding strategies for upcoming projects.  Services also include monitoring the contractor during the construction phase to ensure timely project completion, change order negotiation and approval of progress payments.

• Miami-Dade Public School System
  

• Task Order Based
  

• 2002 - 2009