RFQ-Update, Develop and Implement Regional Planning Tools

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RFQ-Update, Develop and Implement Regional Planning Tools

 

 

The Spokane Regional Transportation Council (SRTC) is requesting submittals from qualified firms with expertise in updating, developing and implementing regional planning tools. The project is a multi-year effort that is based on design- build principles. This project has been identified in SRTC’s SFY 2020-2021 Unified Planning Work Program which details the expected outcomes in Section 3.2. SRTC reserves the right to amend terms of this Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to circulate various addenda, or to withdraw the RFQ at any time, regardless of how much time and effort consultants have spent on their responses.

 

Project Description

 

Recent presentations from transportation experts on emergent technologies and an increased emphasis on performance- based planning have highlighted the importance of adapting analytics to help understand the rapidly changing transportation environment. The proliferation of passive or “big” data has the potential to improve the way transportation planners understand travel behavior throughout the region. This project will leverage available data to improve existing tools and develop new ones that will assist decision makers in implementing policies and right-sizing investments to maximize benefit to all users.

This document refers to the term “tools” to describe those devices that apply data to the planning process. Examples could include the travel demand model (including exploratory scenario planning), a dashboard that allows the Policy Board to understand regional safety impacts and trends or, a tool like the Rapid Policy Analysis Tool (RPAT) that was developed under the federal Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP2). Prior to any investment to improve SRTC’s existing tools, or the purchase of additional expensive data, a holistic consideration of the entire “toolbox” is necessary to develop an improvement plan (Design Plan). The Design Plan will allow SRTC to strategically invest in an integrated suite of tools which will allow SRTC to more effectively apply data to the planning process.

 

 Once the Design Plan has been approved, a separate notice to proceed will be issued authorizing the qualified consultant team to execute the Design Plan. This project does not have a mandatory Underutilized Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (UDBE) goal, however, a 10% Voluntary Small Business Enterprise (SBE) goal is assigned.

 

 For more details regarding the project, tasks, and instructions to the proposer, please go to: www.srtc.org or see attachment.