Smart Cities Strategic Plan Services

The Vendor is required to provide to develop a comprehensive smart cities strategic plan that includes establishing strategic direction, engaging stakeholders, identifying key challenges and opportunities, setting goals, creating key strategy and policy recommendations, and establishing mechanisms for monitoring and evaluation.
- Strategic support and investment, agency focuses on assisting communities with significant infrastructure and service gaps by advancing targeted policies, strategies, and funding for pilot projects - ensuring that regional progress delivers practical, widely shared benefits.
- Develop a smart cities strategic plan, and periodically revise the technology guiding principles to inventory existing policies, evaluate emerging technologies, recommend best practices, implement its priorities, assess current trends and research, identify pilot opportunities and improve transportation system safety and efficiency;
- Conduct regional assessment of current and planned connected and automated vehicle (CAV) implementation in the agency region to determine opportunity zones for future deployments and develop toolkits and best practices for local jurisdictions;
- Assist local jurisdictions in developing an incentive program or framework to further adoption of zero or near zero passenger vehicles;
- Explore opportunities to expand access to EV chargers or other clean technologies across the region,
Focus on serving areas and populations, which may include but not be limited to residents of multifamily dwellings.
- Develop a framework to support pilot programs such as the sustainable communities program (SCP) and its smart cities and mobility innovations grant program.
- Data-driven urban planning improves accessibility, economic opportunity, and equity through multimodal infrastructure and sustainable land use. 
- Sustainability policies promote zero- and near-zero-emission transportation, equitable clean mobility access, and targeted incentive programs.
- Implementation strategies focus on technology-driven transportation management, digital infrastructure expansion, and sustainability-focused funding.
- Economic policies enhance broadband access, and intelligent infrastructure investments support mobility, economic growth, and resilience.
- The dollars are intended for the development of carbon reduction strategies and projects which decarbonize the transportation system.
- both physical and digital infrastructure is essential to enabling the core features of smart cities—such as interconnected networks, advanced mobility systems, and open data platforms.
- The integration and coordination of emerging technologies continues to pose challenges, particularly in aligning new solutions with existing infrastructure.
- A well-planned, cohesive transportation system—designed with flexibility and technology neutrality in mind—can help bridge these gaps and support the continued evolution of smarter, more connected communities.
- Assess the current state of Infrastructure (both physical and digital), including:
•    Technology infrastructure and digital readiness within the region.
•    Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and the surface transportation network.
•    Physical infrastructure and readiness for connected and autonomous modes (such as sensors, pavement markings, signage, and roadway design) and their existing service areas.
•    Existing gaps or critical infrastructure limitations.
- Assess policy and data, focusing on:
•    Trends, opportunities, and case studies for technology integration.
•    Current operational and planned CAV implementation in the agency region.
•    Challenges related to regulatory hurdles and technological advancements.
•    Socio-economic considerations (e.g., equity, population density) and changing economic or policy conditions.
- Assess the current funding landscape, including:
•    Recurrent and temporary funding sources for high priority technology needs
•    Opportunities for the implementation of smart city technologies
•    Supportive finance strategies for system preservation and maintenance
•    Incentives related to electrification infrastructure and other technologies
•    Regional and state funding programs applicable for smart city technologies
•    Shifting federal priorities related to funding and policy and supplemental resources
- Project will be in the range of $375,000.00 and $450,000.00 USD.

- Contract Period/Term: 1 year
- Virtual Pre-Proposal Conference Date: September 8, 2025
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: September 12, 2025