Geographic Information System and Mapping Services

The vendor is required to provide geographic information system (GIS) and mapping services, overseen by the advance planning division of the planning and environmental review department.
- Spatial data management
• This includes data organization, maintenance, and management.
• Particular attention is needed to ensure general plan and zoning datasets and maps are secure and up-to-date.
• As part of this effort, develop relationships with city staff and ensure that as new and updated data is produced, that information is logged and updated maps are prepared in a timely manner.
• The currently planning division of planning and environmental review with preparing updated data and maps when a zoning district amendment is proposed as part of a development project.
• A second example is ensuring that updated environmentally sensitive habitat area (ESHA) boundaries from project-specific biological studies are documented and logged for future update to the city’s general plan maps identifying the boundaries of ESHA within the city.
- Esri license oversight
• Serve as a facilitator to ensure the city is properly leveraging the city’s existing Esri licensed products. 
• This includes coordinating the city’s ArcGIS online presence and utilization.
- Map preparation and GIS analysis
• Update general plan and zoning maps, prepare miscellaneous maps such as census, demographics, and coastal access maps, and maps for staff reports.
• Ensure cartographic consistency across maps. create new datasets and conduct GIS data analysis at the direction of the city.
- City staff GIS coordination meetings and training
• Facilitate monthly GIS meetings to review spatial data management, versioning control, and status of imagery and data purchases, and to support staff GIS training.
• Assist individual staff members with training with ArcGIS pro and ArcGIS online on an as needed basis.
• These include the city’s information technology (IT) service provider, acorn technology services, and the city’s permit tracking service provider computer software inc. (CSI).
• CSI includes ensuring that the city’s spatial data is properly displayed and managed within the mapping module of the city’s permit tracking system.
- Emergency operations mapping
• Assist the city with mapping and information dissemination during emergency events.
• This may include in-person or virtual support for an established emergency operations center.
- The city has $50,000 budgeted for GIS and mapping services in FY 2025-26, some of which will be spent with the city’s current GIS and mapping services provider.
- Contract Period/Term: 2 years
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: July 24, 2025