Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 15 - Mississippi Department of Health › Part 20 - Bureau of Public Water Supply › Subpart 72 - Public Water Supply › Chapter 5 - REGULATIONS GOVERNING AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT RURAL WATER ASSOCIATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE GRANT PROGRAM › Subchapter 5 - Recommended Allowances for Planning, Design and Construction Phase Professional Services › Rule 15-20-72-5.5.2 - Recommended Allowance for Construction Phase Professional Services

Current through June 25, 2024
The Allowance for Construction Phase Professional
						Services includes costs for engineering services during bidding, construction,
						and post-construction phases, observation during construction, Grant
						administration and other services (i.e. legal, audit, etc.) that are associated
						with the construction of the ARPA RWAIG project. The recommended allowance for
						construction phase professional services will be determined using Table 2 in
						this Subchapter.
This table is not intended to be used to determine the
						actual compensation for construction phase professional services. Compensation
						for these professional services should be based upon the nature, scope, and
						complexity of the services required for the project.
Table 2 separates the Total Recommended Allowance for
						Construction Phase Professional Services shown in the far-right hand column
						into three types of services: engineering, Grant administration, and other
						services and provides suggested ranges for each of these services depending
						upon the complexity of the project. The Grant applicant/recipient should
						consider these recommended ranges when evaluating proposals for these services.
						If the proposals exceed the normal ranges for any of these services, the Grant
						applicant/recipient should consider requiring the professional to justify why
						the project is more difficult than normal. The actual compensation justified
						for a particular project may be more or less than the suggested range of the
						allowance for these services shown in Table 2.
If the consulting engineer and Grant applicant/recipient
						determine that the maximum recommended allowance calculated using Table 2 in
						this Subchapter does not adequately reflect the nature, scope, and complexity
						of the services required for the project, the consulting engineer may submit a
						detailed cost proposal, in such format as required by the Department,
						justifying a compensation amount greater than Table 2 recommends. If in the
						Department's opinion the detailed cost proposal justifies such, the Department
						will approve an allowance for construction phase professional services greater
						than those recommended in Table 2. The decision of the Department in this
						matter will be final.
Although Table 2 shows engineering and Grant
						administration as separate costs, the Grant applicant/recipient is not required
						by these regulations to contract for these services separately. The Grant
						applicant/recipient may wish to have the consulting engineer provide both
						scopes of services, and under such an arrangement, the engineer's contract
						should not exceed the total of the suggested ranges for both
						services.
House Bill 1421,
						2022 Regular Session