Aviation Economic Impact Survey Services

The vendor required to provide aviation economic impact survey services for include:
- Direct impacts are the starting point for the economic impact analysis. 
•    Study, all direct impacts will be measured or counted in some way. 
•    Direct impacts will be established for the following sources of impact: 
o    Airport management
o    Aviation business tenants
o    Commercial airline visitors applicable airports 
o    General aviation visitors
o    Airport construction
•    The contractor shall work with each study airport to secure information that adequately captures information on jobs, payroll, and spending related to each source of economic impact noted above. 
•    Included in the business tenant category, as applicable to each individual airport, are airlines, air cargo carriers, terminal concessionaires, fixed base operators, applicable military units, corporate flight departments, aircraft related maintenance providers, and federal agencies such as TSA.
- Take steps to develop estimates of commercial airline visitor spending, including but not limited to:
•    Determining the portion of each commercial airport's passengers that are visitors rather than residents of the airport's market area.
•    Developing surveys to collect information from visitors arriving by air.
•    Determining with the study sponsor the optimum approach for securing information from air visitors.
•    implementing visitor surveys.
•    Analyzing results from visitor surveys.
- The contractor shall deploy a separate survey geared to collecting information from general aviation visitors. 
•    The study sponsor and the contracted team shall determine the most appropriate methodology or methodologies to implement the general aviation visitor survey. 
•    Reasonable estimates of general aviation visitors and associated spending are important to the validity of study results. 
•    Surveys from both commercial and general aviation visitors will be used to determine total annual visitor spending for each of the study airports. 
•    Spending estimates will be developed by category: lodging, food, entertainment, ground transportation, and retail. 
- Once annual visitor spending is established for each airport, the contractor shall use an input-output econometric model to identify annual employment and payroll impacts that are supported by the spending. 
- The study sponsor, determine the most appropriate input-output model to use to support the study's economic modeling. 
•    The department will determine the need to develop regional versus a statewide model to support the analysis.
- Information will be collected from each airport that shows all capital spending for a designated historical timeframe. 
- In the construction category, capital investment will be averaged to support the identification of each airport's annual economic impacts. 
- Similar to annual visitor spending, average annual capital spending by airport, will be entered into the study input-output model to determine the number of jobs and associated payroll that are supported by the spending in the construction category.
- Data collection to determine direct impacts
•    Develop surveys for airport management, business tenants, and visitors to collect direct impacts. 
o    A mixture of on-site airport visits and phone interviews will support the data collection effort. 
•    The contractor shall review all direct economic impacts collected in this task to ensure accuracy. 
•    Providing information needed to estimate airport management impacts, each study airport will provide a list and contact information for each of its aviation-related business tenants. 
•    Airport contacts will also provide information on historical capital investment. 
•    Airport assistance will also be requested as it relates to implementing visitor, both commercial and general aviation, surveys. 
•    The conclusion of this task, the contractor shall prepare reports on each study airport, showing estimated annual employment, payroll, and spending for each impact category: 
o    Airport management
o    Airport business tenants
o    Air visitors commercial and general aviation
o    Construction
•    This information is the foundation for estimating each airport's total annual economic impacts.
- Indirect and induced economic impacts
•    Impacts in this task will be estimated using the input-output model adopted for the study. 
•    The selected model to identify indirect and induced employment, payroll, and spending impacts for management, tenants, visitors, and construction
- Total annual economic impacts
•    Provide information on direct and indirect employment, payroll, and spending impacts.
•    The report must include both airport specific and statewide results. 
•    Separate sections will report on the results for each airport's airport management category, its specific aviation-related business tenants, its general aviation visitors, its commercial visitors, and its average annual capital investment.
•    The report must contain:
o    Study summary fact sheet -a two-page double-sided study primer or fact sheet will be prepared to summarize all study findings.
o    Executive summary-a color executive summary, approximately 12 pages in length, will be prepared for the cumulative study results for all study airports.
o    Individual airport summaries-a two-page double-sided summary report will be prepared for each of the study airports. 
o    Include both statewide and individual airport economic impact results.
o    Methods for delivering study reports - the final scoping efforts will determine the method of delivering all reports. 
o    Reports must be delivered as follows:
1.    Word or adobe
2.    Final data sets will be delivered in excel
3.    Graphical design files will be delivered in adobe
- Optional study tasks
1. Communication tasks
a. Study PowerPoint summary
•    To report on study results and findings, a PowerPoint presentation can be developed. 
•    The study PowerPoint can have a script. 
•    The PowerPoint presentation can be developed so that it can be "personalized" to present individual airport results, along with statewide findings.
b. Study summary video
•    To help with the report on study findings, a summary video can be prepared. 
•    This video can be focused on statewide results but can include results from the animated statewide flight map and various case studies, should these options be selected for inclusion in the study.
2. Supplemental reports and reporting
a. Impacts by state and house congressional district
•    Elected officials are a primary audience for the results from an economic impact study. 
•    Elected officials are often interested in airport related economic impacts that are realized or that are associated with their individual district. 
•    Analysis can be completed to assign the identified economic impacts to each district, as applicable. 
•    these results can be published as separate, additional reports, or they can be incorporated into the individual reports that will be prepared for each airport as part of the core study.
b. Airport and statewide flight maps
•    Data available from the FAA, and other sources such as ads-b, can be used to develop flight maps for each airport. 
•    Such maps help the community served by each airport better understand, by providing a visual presentation, how each airport helps to connect the community to other markets across the country most individuals in the community do not have a full appreciation of how their local airport is a key connector supporting commerce and economic development. 
•    Flight maps can be developed to graphically depict airport activity; these maps can be incorporated into the individual airport reports that are part of the core analysis. 
•    A statewide compilation of flight activity can also be developed and animated to be used in slides shows or a study video, if those options are selected.

- Contract Period/Term: 1 year
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: November 15, 2025