At the March 31, 2017 Finance and City Wide Committee meeting, a referral from the City Commission was (Item C4N) was discussed regarding the engagement of a Revenue Enhancement Consultant to study the City's Utilities Department. It was discussed to repeat the revenue enhancement study of the City’s Utilities Department previous performed in 2009. Direction was given to identify other areas for cost reduction potential so that an RFQ could be issued for revenue enhancement review.
At the June 30, 2017, Finance and City Wide Committee meeting, staff presented those areas where the city would benefit from this type of evaluation and those areas where an evaluation would not be necessary since a review has been recently performed by other parties. The Administration recommended the following a revenue enhancement study of the City’s Utilities Department, since the last study was performed in 2009.
On June 30, 2017, the Committee approved the issuance of the RFQ for a revenue enhancement study. The Committee also requested that the Administration come back to the Committee with the scope of the RFP to ensure consistency with what the Committee envisioned.
On September 20, 2017, staff returned to the Committee to identify the following scope of services for approval:
· Consultant should have a minimum of five (5) years' experience in performing similar work for utilities, including identifying and recovering un-read, mis-read, and un-metered water revenues.
· Consultant shall provide services leading to identifying an analyzing the cause of revenue loss from unread, mis-read and un-metered water and sewer usage, wastewater services problems, meter related malfunctions, or lost accounts.
· Finally, the consultant shall be able to quantify the potential revenue enhancement associated with the correction of lost revenue, including providing a written analysis detailing such findings, and recommendations for future improvements and solutions.
At its April 11, 2018 meeting, directed staff to prepare an RFQ for the desired scope of work.
SUBMITTAL REQUIREMENTS. Please Reference Section 0300, Page 12, RFP 2018-234-JC Revenue Enhancement Consultant to study the City's Utilities Department.
CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION. Please Reference Section 0400, Page 15, RFP 2018-234-JC Revenue Enhancement Consultant to study the City's Utilities Department.