Strategic Planning Services

The Vendor is required to provide consultant has the experience, team, references, and approach to facilitate and develop a comprehensive strategic plan that will guide the organization beyond 2025. 
- It should also give consideration to a possible partnership on a standalone aquarium, be forward-looking, mission-driven, and crafted to support innovation, operational excellence, and conservation impact while respecting the agency unique character and resources.
- To ensure productive and measurable progress towards achieving the strategic goals, as well as the overall vision, the action plan will serve as a living document, supported with specific, coordinated, and timed action items.
- Today, the Zoo possesses all the fundamentals with an incredible animal collection with a wide variety of iconic, dynamic species; a beautiful campus that has been consistently maintained and updated; and a culture that wholeheartedly embraces its conservation mission and weaves it into everything it does, including the guest experience.
- In tandem with a plan focused on conservation is a greater commitment to tracking and measuring the success of these efforts across the organization to continually refine, adjust and achieve greater impact.
- There is an opportunity to move beyond and begin thinking in new ways about why we are caring for animals and how we can evaluate and utilize research, science and medical health practices and technology to develop innovative animal care practices that benefit the animals in their care.
- They created a more consistent internal culture, continued to maintain strong and responsible fiscal management rooted in best practices, established a strong reputation around conservation and continued to provide the highest quality animal care.

- Contract Period/Term: 3 years
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: November 19, 2025