Strategic Planning Consulting Services

The vendor is required to provide strategic planning consulting services to facilitate this process by engaging stakeholders (internal and external), conducting relevant analyses, and developing an actionable strategic plan.
- Strategic planning consultant that will:
•    Gather data to be considered in the strategic planning process, which will include:
o    A project kickoff meeting and regular check-point meetings with the executive director and director of business solutions. 
o    The kickoff meeting should include a discussion of roles and responsibilities of the consultant, the work to be completed, and the projected timeline for completion; 
o    Meetings with the executive team; 
o    Meetings with commissioners to discuss the progress of the strategic plan development and to solicit input; 
o    Meetings with staff; 
o    Meetings to engage external stakeholders to solicit input including program participants, landlords, partner agencies, and legislative officials; 
o    Data and information provided by authority and its partners.
•    Complete a SWOT analysis (or similar process) to assess both the internal and external environment. 
•    We expect the consultant will assist with analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of the organization and help to identify the external opportunities and threats which will influence our plan. 
•    The SWOT analysis should purposefully incorporate our contract management services department as this entity brings unique capacity to authority. 
•    Surface strategic choices based on the stakeholder meetings and SWOT analysis for authority growth and contract management services (CMS’s) role in that growth plan and facilitate a discussion with authority board of commissioners and executive team around those choices. 
•    Revisit the vision, mission, and values to ensure these statements are a source of inspiration and guidance for our commissioners and our staff. 
•    Revisit the agency’s names to explore opportunities to align identity with the agency’s vision and mission. 
•    Draft a strategic plan document that serves as a useful roadmap for commissioners and staff in decision-making and the future allocation of resources. 
•    The document should contain strategic goals, outcome metrics, and targets. the document should also articulate shorter term, foundational steps and milestones that must be taken to achieve the outcome metrics. 
•    We ask that the consultant work with authority marketing team to ensure that any deliverables for this work adhere to authority brand standards.

- Contract Period/Term: 1 year
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: October 3, 2025