The vendor required to provide economic development roadmap study to create a data-driven, stakeholder-informed strategy that outlines short-, medium-, and long-term actions to support sustainable economic growth, workforce development, business retention and attraction, and regional competitiveness.
- Requirement:
• Economic baseline assessment: analysis of demographic, labor, industry, infrastructure, health care, education, and real estate data including transportation, utilities, broadband, and available industrial and commercial sites to support economic growth.
• Include an assessment of current mining activity and agricultural production for their overall economic impacts on the county.
• An assessment of economic trends, remote work patters, and cross-border economic linkages.
• SWOT analysis: evaluate the county’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats surrounding economic development.
• Stakeholder engagement: facilitate workshops, surveys, and interviews with public officials, businesses, educational institutions, and community groups to gather input and ensure support during implementation.
• Benchmarking: compare to peer counties or regions to identify best practices in economic development and successful programs, initiatives, and incentives
• Strategic recommendations: identify targeted sectors, policies, incentives, and programs to support economic resilience and growth.
• Include programs that retain and attract military-related contractors and high-tech businesses, mining, sustainable agricultural enterprises, and other emerging sectors.
• Douglas port authority: conduct a preliminary feasibility study and recommend steps for establishing a port authority, including legal, financial, and operational considerations.
• Us highway 191 corridor: recommend initiatives to capitalize on the new commercial port of entry that encourage development of industry along the us highway 191 corridor.
• Douglas hospital: evaluate the market data feasibility and availability of hospital services for Douglas and surrounding populations as it relates to economic development for the port of entry.
• Presentation of findings: public presentations to the board of supervisors.
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: January 16, 2026
