Consulting Services

The vendor is required to provide consulting services for the following categories:
• Inclusive economic development.
• Urban design and planning.
• Environmental review and technical analyses.
• Historical, cultural, and archaeological resources.
• Community engagement and capacity building.
• Communications, events, and graphic design.
a. Inclusive economic development
• Retail and market assessments, including detailed demographic analyses.
• Business retention and expansion.
• Real estate development (feasibility, revenue modeling, environmental, financing/fundraising).
• Nexus studies and fiscal/economic analyses.
• Analysis of potential funding sources to finance infrastructure or other public improvements (tax increment financing, direct public offerings).
• Property and business improvement districts.
• Commercial district marketing and branding.
• Commercial district revitalization, particularly on inclusive and equitable strategies.
• Gentrification susceptibility analyses and anti-displacement strategies.
• Community wealth building (including, but not limited to, employee ownership models, anchor institution purchasing, participatory budgeting models, public banking, community land trusts, cooperative structures, employee stock ownership plans, or social enterprises).
b. Urban design and planning
• Specific plans.
• Area and neighborhood plans.
• Transit-oriented development plans.
• Photo-simulations and drawing simulations of development/improvements.
• Design guidelines.
• ADU affordability program development.
• Web-based applications and tools that would give homeowners an understanding of where an ADU could be built on their property, what planning and development code standards apply, and create a visualization of an ADU on their property.
• Housing development toolkits illustrating the step-by-steps development process and available incentives and programs.
• Cost-effective placemaking strategies and techniques.
• Opportunities and constraints analyses.
• Technical analyses to support planning projects, such as transportation studies, air quality and greenhouse gas analyses, fee/nexus studies, biological resource studies, etc.
• Planning technical assistance to owners of vacant and underutilized properties, community-based organizations, and neighborhood associations.
c. Environmental review and technical analyses
• Project management and completion of full environmental documents, including directing teams of technical experts. subconsultants may be listed in response to future requests; however, at this time, respondents only need to include their own qualifications and examples of projects for which they were the lead.
• Air quality and greenhouse gas analyses.
• Biological resource studies.
• Cultural resource studies, including tribal cultural resources.
• water supply assessments.
• Phase I environmental site assessments.
• Infrastructure analyses, including sewer, water, electrical, drainage, gas, etc.
• Transportation studies.
d. Historical, cultural, and archaeological resources
• The city is requesting information from parties available to provide services that include the ability to properly research, evaluate, investigate, and report on historical, cultural, and archaeological resources in compliance with ab 52 and the national historic preservation act (NHPA).
• Monitoring may also be required.
e. Community engagement and capacity building
• Project management consulting (selected firms will be expected to facilitate discussions, lead outreach, engagement processes, meeting planning, organizing, and note taking).
• Program design, workshops, and training implementation.
• Partnership development.
• Create and maintain coalitions and facilitate collaborative structures.
• Programmatic and fiscal administrative support.
• Mediation support.
• Nonprofit organizational board development, financials, and fundraising.
• Community ownership models.
• Race and equity consulting, training, and strategies for local business organizations and cities.
• Grant writing assistance, training, and technical assistance consultation.
• Grant administration (third-party administrator).
• Participatory grant-making.
• Facilitate action plan implementation processes.
• Capacity building support, which could include project management and acting as staff support to community groups to aid them in interacting more effectively with the city.
f. Communications, events, and graphic design
• Language translation and interpretation services (selected firms will be expected to provide interpretation services at workshops or community events or translate written materials). some languages may include, but are not limited to: Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Russian, Hmong, Vietnamese, or Tagalog.
• Event design, logistics planning, organizing, promotion, production, management, and execution.
• Notification and marketing of events, plans, programs, or initiatives.
• Communications plans.
• Outreach and notification plans.
• Print and digital designs for: marketing, advertisements, websites, special projects, reports, and events.
• Document formatting and design in word, in design, and other software.
• Photography.
• Logo and graphic development.
• Videography.
• Audio and visual support.
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: August 29, 2025