<Environmental consulting.
Market size
According to ensr.com, the overall national environmental consulting
market revenue in 2002 totalled $32.7 billion.
http://www.ensr.com/newsroom/pr/2003/ENR_rankings03.htm
According to Environmental Business Journal, the US market for
environmental consulting & engineering is $18.8 billion. The full
report is available at a cost of $100 for subscribers and $150 for
non-subscribers.
http://environmental-industry.com/ebj/conen20volno.html
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Number of companies.
According to government census figures (1997), there were 6,725
environmental consultancy establishments with receipts of 4.7 billion.
The 2002 census has been completed but figures have not yet been
published.
http://www.census.gov/epcd/ec97/industry/E541620.HTM
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Trends
According to the Wade publication Environmental Business Journale,
environmental consulting and engineering companies had a domestic
growth rate of 2.2 percent in 2002, compared with 5 percent to 5.5
percent from 1999 through 2001. Paul Zofnass, president of
Environmental Financial Consulting Group, expects 2003 numbers to be
similar to 2002, with companies in the federal government and private
sectors faring better than their counterparts in state and local
government.
"Two factors drive (environmental services)," said Zofnass. "How many
regulations and rules the government is pushing on firms, and the
overall economy, although it takes longer to feel that change."
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m5072/is_11_26/ai_114742509
Hourly billing rates are on the rise by Laura B. Rothman.
Data in ZweigWhite's 2004 Fee & Billing Survey of A/E/P &
Environmental Consulting Firms shows that environmental consulting
firms are charging more with hourly billing rates increased at an
average of 16% over the past five years, with a 6% increase in the
past year. Factors fuelling the rise are inflation, changes in the
consumer price index, increases in staff salaries and increases in
insurance and other overheads.
http://www.zweigwhite.com/perspectives/perspective.asp?pageid=274
Environmental consultants see shifts in large, small markets.
Nashville Business Journal. May 3 2002.
Summary:
According to Nashville's local environmental consulting firms
competition with larger national players is fragmented. And depending
on a local firm's expertise, it might have an advantage over a larger
company, depending on the needs of its client base.
The industry is becoming more cost conscious with environmental
consulting jobs often going to the lowest bidder. Environmental
consulting firms are now specializing in fewer areas and relying on a
national client base to support those areas.
Firms focus on specific industries as a way to differentiate themselves.
"The entire environmental consulting industry is consolidating and in
some ways becoming more of a commodity business," says Rob Alley,
president of E. Roberts Alley & Associates, Inc., a Nashville-based
environmental consulting firm.
We are seeing our industrial clients become more driven by reducing
their cost and optimizing their environmental performance," says Jeff
Pintenich, vice president of Brown & Caldwell's Nashville office.
The future of Nashville's environmental consulting business is one of
continuing polarization with fewer opportunities for local companies
to bid on large projects.
http://nashville.bizjournals.com/nashville/stories/2002/05/06/focus2.html?page=1
Environmental firms flush with insurance, tribal work. Anne Gonzales.
February 13, 2004.
This article looks at the environmental consulting business in
Sacramento which is flourishing due to a population explosion, the
proliferation of new tribal casinos and discoveries of toxic mold.
http://www.analyticalcorp.com/html/news/2004-feb-13.htm
ZweigWhite?s 2003 Financial Performance Survey of A/E/P &
Environmental Consulting Firms showed that 42% of firms laid off staff
in 2002.
http://www.ioma.com/pub/DFMAR/2004_09/1588168-1.html
Sixty-four percent of respondents to ZweigWhite's 2004 Merger &
Acquisition Survey of A/E/P & Environmental Consulting Firms say they
are currently considering buying another firm. That figure is the
highest percentage in three years, with 59% considering buying a firm
in the 2003 edition of the survey, and 60% in the 2002 edition.
The number of respondents thinking about selling their firm dropped
this year to 35% from the 43% interested in selling their firm in the
2003 survey. Twenty-five percent of respondents to the 2004 survey
were interested in merging their firm with another firm, up from 21%
reported in 2003.
http://www.zweigwhite.com/perspectives/perspective.asp?pageid=249
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Examples of selection criteria
IOWA DOT
The selection criteria that will be used to evaluate the firms
submitting proposals and the weighted value assigned to each criterion
are as follows:
Past experience with similar work: 30%
Staff experience relative to specific project needs: 20%.
Specific qualifications of project team: 30%.
Present workload/availability of key staff: 10%.
IT-GIS resources/compatibility with IDOT: 10%.
http://www.prof-tech-consultant.dot.state.ia.us/asp/openRFP/proposal_detail.asp?RFPid=92
City of San Ramon Planning Division
1. A high level of professional competence and a proven track record
in the processing of development applications and preparation of
environmental documents.
2. Experience of personnel listed in the RFQ.
3. If a joint venture, the track records of team members? experience
working together and on similar projects.
4. Cost of providing the environmental consulting services.
5. Review of references.
http://www.ci.san-ramon.ca.us/plan/rfq.htm
County of Santa Cruz
A. Understanding of the proposed project.
B. Soundness of proposed project approach.
C. Recognition of potential problems.
D. Reasonableness of the estimated time to complete each task.
E. Past record of performance on similar jobs with respect to quality
of work, control of
cost, and adherence to schedules.
F. Qualifications of project personnel.
G. Ability to meet all Consultant Qualifications outlined in Section
of this document.
H. Ability to meet the County?s insurance requirements (See Attachment).
J. The fee proposals will be opened after the proposals are ranked for comparative
purposes. Contract negotiations will be conducted with the firm deemed most
qualified. If an agreement on the scope of services and compensation cannot be
reached, negotiations with the first ranked firm are closed and
negotiations with the
second ranked firm are opened. Minority owned business enterprises (MBE),
women owned business enterprises and disabled owned business enterprises
(DBE) are encouraged to submit proposals
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City of Long Beach.
Proposals will be ranked on the basis of quality, capacity and cost.
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