FLOOD00075

• County: Statewide
• Community: State of Colorado
• Stream Name: All
• Title: Floodplain Study Review and Designation program - SOQ
• Date: 4/1/2000
• Prepared For: State of Colorado
• Prepared By: Parsons Engineering
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Miscellaneous

QUI/iii/cation for the Colorado Water Conservl/tion Board
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reviews between the CWCB's board meetings,
One senior engineer, Dr. Lewis, will perform a
final review of all the studies, Of the four-to-six
floodplain studies, no more than to two studies
would be allocated to one project engineer in
any cycle unless that engineer was 100% avail-
able, Since work on this project is not expected
to be a full-time effort, this allocation of the
work would allow for review of up to six reports
between board meetings.

QUALITY CONTROL ASSURANCE
AND SCHEDULE CONTROL
PROCEDURES

Quality Control

The Parsons Corporation employs standard-
ized quality control procedures, These proce-
dures are the company's quality assurance (QA)
program as set forth in the Parsons Engineering
Science Quality Assurance Policy Manual, Par-
sons is committed to performing quality work,
satisfying the requirements of each project, and
meeting each client's project needs,

QA for projects performed by Parsons is
conducted as a four-element activity. First, the
selection of the project manager is based on both
management ability and technical expertise in
the key aspects of the project. Dr. Lewis was
selected for the position of project manager
based on his excellent track record of maintain,
ing effective day-to-day control of technical
content, budgets, and schedules for multiple,site
projects,

The second element of Parsons QA program
is the selection of an experienced project team,
The team members selected for this project are
outstanding technically, and can provide in-
depth expertise in all of the disciplines that will
be required to complete the CWCB's Floodplain
Study Review and Designation Program,

Third, every Parsons ES project is assigned a
technical director who is selected for his or her
technical expertise applicable to the project.

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The technical director conducts independent data
and procedu cal reviews throughout the project.
No deli veralle will be released by Parsons ES
until the technical director certifies that the work
meets ParSOlS lOS' high standards of quality,
Parsons ES has assigned Mr. Gary Lewis as both
the project n: anger and technical director as part
of our comrr.itment to be responsive and effec-
tive in suppocting this project.

Fourth, every Parsons ES project is con,
dueted in accordance with a QA plan, which
specifies quality control (QC) procedures appro-
priate for the specific project. Because the types
of projects P,lrsons ES conducts are ,,) varied in
type. size, ard complexity, a rigid set of proee'
dures would be counter-productive, Instead. a
project-speci'ic QA plan will be developed for
this project. The steps in developing and im-
plementing the QA plan include:

, Determining the level of detail for the QA
program,
r Defining the quality criteria to be applied to
the project and developing the QC proce-
dures to he used to comply with these crite-
na.
r Developi 19 a written QA plan describing
what is tc. be done and by whom,
r Implementing the QA plan.
, Auditing the implementation and results of
the plan,
'" Implementing corrective action. as neces-
:.;ary.
'" Fol[owil1i~ up to ensure any corrective action
caken is effective.

This four-element approach to quality assur-
ance has bem used by Parsons ES for man y
years and wa; applied to all four of the projects
described in Section 1 of th,s Statement of
Qualification;;,

Sch<edule Control

There are approximately 60 days between
board meetings and of that, 40 are workdays,
The affected community is to be notified 4S
days prior to the board meeting, This leaves

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