Professional Consultant Services

The vendor is required to provide professional consultant services for multi-disciplinary areas of planning, engineering, architecture, construction management, surveying, community development, economic development, environmental services, information technology, communications, and media services.
- The department of economic development, tourism and planning, the consultant(s) will assist the county with one or more of the following services and may respond to one or more of the following categories:
•    Program delivery and administration for community development block grant (CDBG) program, microenterprise assistance program (map), county revolving loan program (quantum fund), including performing loan packaging, commercial credit analysis, loan origination and underwriting, loan portfolio management, and commercial credit activities; technical assistance for CDBG competitive and direct grants; and other CDBG related services as necessary; and
•    General promotion of industry and community and economic development services, which may also concern, but not be limited to, projects that include but are not limited to: downtown and community development, business development, strategic planning, fiscal impact analysis, feasibility or market studies, and grant writing services; and
•    Planning services, which may include, but not be limited to such projects as: land use and project plans, affordable housing projects, broadband, cellular and radio communications, public facilities, infrastructure, grant writing services, brownfield redevelopment planning, environmental impact statements, state environmental quality review act (SEQRA) assistance, and local waterfront revitalization plan; and
•    Engineering and architectural services, which may include, but not be limited to such projects as: site design, renderings, engineered drawings, construction and bid document preparation, land surveying, and site and project analysis and estimating. 
•    Generally, engineering and architectural services in support of capital facilities, planning and economic development projects (many engineering firms also maintain a planning division, engineering firms responding to this rfp for potential engineering projects, shall also indicate if they are responding in more than one category), and infrastructure capacity mapping and reporting; and
•    Construction management services, which may include, but not be limited to professional construction management services that provides county with effective management of capital facility construction with oversight of schedule, cost, quality, safety, scope and function. 
•    CMs are required to with the owner, architect, general contractor, and other stakeholders to determine the best possible sequence of construction operations and develop a detailed schedule and budget, while also establishing plans for project safety and security and helping the owner manage risk. 
•    This requires using project management information systems (PMISS) and complex planning techniques (such as critical path method) as well as knowledge of construction methods; and
•    Information technology services, which may include but not be limited to such projects and services as industry research, network design, camera and wireless surveillance; procurement of goods and services; state audit reporting; risk and security assessment; and consulting support for the county’s information technology department; and
•    Land surveying, to include the preparation of legal boundaries, maps and metes and bounds descriptions; and
•    Communication and media services for the department’s business and consumer programs, including management of county economic development corporation and department of economic development and planning website(s), press releases, digital paid and social media campaigns. 
•    The selected entity shall act as the county’s agency of record (AOR) for these economic development and planning services; and
•    Communications and media services for the county’s government public information platform, including management of the county’s website(s), press releases, digital paid and social media campaigns, and other special reports and projects as needed. 
•    The selected entity shall act as the county’s agency of record (AOR) for these government communications services.
•    Public transportation planning, which may include, but not be limited to such projects as: assistance with county transit program planning, operations, and implementation, non-motorized transportation planning, compliance with federal and state transportation-focused agencies, and grant writing.

- Contract Period/Term: 3 years