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6.A. - Page 17 of 50 DAC Section 1 - Cover Letter November 12, 2018 To: Amanda Wilson, ADA Coordinator City Manager's Office City of Redwood City 1017 Middlefield Road Redwood City, CA 94063 Re: Request for Proposal for an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Self-evaluation and Transition Plan Firm's Legal Name: Disability Access Consultants, LLC (DAC) Headquarters: 2243 Feather River Boulevard, Oroville, CA 95965 Additional Offices: Arizona, Illinois, Georgia, Florida Project Contact: Project Manager: Barbara Thorpe, President bthorpe@dac-corp.com Phone: 1-800-743-7067, Fax: (530) 533-3001 We appreciate the opportunity to submit our statement of qualifications and proposal for providing consultant an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Self-evaluation and Transition Plan for the City of Redwood City. Disability Access Consultants, LLC (DAC) has extensive experience in the evaluation of program and facility accessibility and provides a full continuum of Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and accessibility services for public entities, such as the City of Redwood City. Founded as a California company in 1998, DAC has provided services for the past 20 years to assist public entities to comply and implement accessibility requirements in accordance with the ADA, Title 24 of the California Building Code, Section 504 and related federal, state and local disability -related nondiscrimination laws and regulations. DAC has conducted over 22,000 building inspections, surveyed thousands of parks and playgrounds, thousands of miles of public rights- of-way and performed hundreds of programmatic reviews and self -evaluations to study the accessibility of programs, services, activities, events and related areas. DAC staff includes certified playground safety inspectors to provide a value added service if requested by the City. DAC has a team of 25 staff, including CASp certified inspectors, dedicated to assisting public entities, such as the City of Redwood City, with ADA compliance. DAC has a comprehensive understanding of applicable standards, regulations and requirement under Title II of the ADA, California Building Code, PROWAG, Caltrans and related state accessibility standards. DAC is currently assisting or has recently completed similar studies for numerous city and county governments, including the County of San Mateo, the City of East Palo Alto, the City of Half Moon Bay, the City of Benicia and the City of Vallejo. DAC was also recently awarded a contract to provide the City of Berkeley with an updated ADA Self-evaluation and Transition Plan. A more detailed list of over 100 similar projects is provided in our response. In addition, DAC has trained public entities to use DACTrak to inspect their own public rights-of-way for a significant cost savings and provided training activities for hundreds of public entities. To provide for easy management of the transition plan and documentation of compliance efforts, DAC has developed web -based software called DACTrak. DACTrak is a powerful on-line tool to manage and update the transition plan, project costs and document progress. Custom reports can be printed in a variety of formats. DACTrak provides a quality finished product for easy and cost-effective management of the ADA plan. DAC is in receipt of the ADA RFP Response to Questions issued on November 9, 2018 and has included the information in preparation of our proposal. This proposal is signed by Barbara Thorpe who is authorized to obligate DAC contractually and negotiate with the City. Barbara Thorpe, President DAC Response to the City of Redwood City for an ADA Self-evaluation and Transition Plan i 23