Strategic Plan Consulting Services

The Vendor is required to provide strategic priority-setting process and subsequently develop a comprehensive strategic plan built directly around those adopted priorities.
- Project initiation and planning
•    Conduct a pre-project planning meeting with designated county project management team to confirm project goals, scope, timeline, deliverables, stakeholders, and communication protocols. • develop and submit a detailed project work plan and timeline for county project management team approval.
- Establish community and county employee engagement on strategic priorities
•    Design and implement a robust engagement strategy that ensures broad and diverse participation from residents and county staff. 
•    Develop, maintain, and regularly update a community engagement portal and website throughout the course of the project.
•    Facilitate public workshops. 
•    Utilize surveys, interviews, focus groups, or online engagement tools as appropriate. 
•    Provide a comprehensive summary report of community input and present findings to county leadership.
- Strategic priority development process (phase i)
•    Design and facilitate a structured priority-setting process including leadership planning sessions and a dedicated off-site leadership retreat within county. 
•    Facilitate discussions with all county leadership to assess organizational strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, risks, and emerging trends. 
•    Synthesize findings from county leadership discussions, SMEs, and community engagement to identify key focus areas. 
•    Design and lead a highly structured, consensus-building exercise during a leadership retreat to formally establish a defined set of strategic priorities. 
•    Facilitate additional workshops as necessary to refine and confirm priorities. 
•    Strategic priorities shall be formally approved by the county leadership prior to commencement of plan development.
- Strategic plan development (phase ii)
•    Vision statement
•    Mission statement
•    Organizational capacity plan to include:
o    Capital, facility, and staffing needs
o    Fiscal impacts
o    Implementation schedule
•    Adopted strategic priorities (three to five (3-5) year horizon)
•    Clear goals aligned to each priority
•    Specific, measurable objectives and action items
•    Identified responsible parties
•    Key performance indicators (KPI’s), success measures, and accountability framework
•    Implementation framework
- Draft and final plan
•    Prepare and submit a draft strategic plan to county leadership for review and feedback. 
•    Produce a final, presentation-ready strategic plan document.