[Consultantservices] RFQ posted Monday, November 27, 2006 9:28 a.m.

[Grace Williams]

 AICP has adopted the following policy:
The AICP Commission requests that entities soliciting planning
consultants follow a two-part RFQ/RFP selection procedure.
<http://www.planning.org/consultant/consult2.html
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to read a description of such a two-part process in PAS Report 443,
Selecting and Retaining a Planning Consultant: RFPs, RFQs, Contracts,
and Project Management, by Eric Damian Kelly, FAICP. To view more
excerpts from the report, <http://www.planning.org>
<http://www.planning.org>/consultant/choose.htm> /consultant/choose.htm
 
Request for  Qualifications  - Consultant Services   

Urban Corridor Master Plan, Roadway Design, and Conceptual Engineering
Plans
The City of Tucson, Arizona 
Submittal Deadline: December 19, 2006

Tucson, Arizona is a world-renown destination community of 1 million
people located in the beautiful Sonoran Desert, and home to the
University of Arizona. The City of Tucson Department of Transportation
is seeking consultant services in the form of a multi-disciplinary team
to develop the Grant Road Corridor Plan. The corridor carries up to
65,000 vehicles per day.

The City is requesting proposals for the widening and redevelopment of
this five-mile section of Grant Road from four to six lanes, including
comprehensive streetscape and infrastructure improvements and adjacent
property redevelopment strategies.

The plan should direct long-term improvements to the functionality and
urban vitality of Grant Road in a manner that will serve as a template
for future roadway and streetscape redevelopment in Tucson. The City's
goal is to create a state-of-the-art transportation corridor that
integrates "best practices" for multi-modal access and design
sensitivity within the unique context of Tucson's Sonoran Desert region.

Major components of the planning effort will include a corridor
alignment study, land use and economic analyses, roadway/streetscape
plan, and an urban design and redevelopment plan. There will be an
extensive public participation process that will respond to the design
and redevelopment preferences and desires of area neighborhoods and
businesses.

The RFQ follows a two-step process. Team qualifications will be
evaluated first, and those teams deemed most qualified will be asked to
submit detailed proposals.  The time budget for completion is no greater
than 36 months.  The winning team will research, analyze, design,
present, and recommend the final corridor alignment within the first 12
months. The team will then design the new roadway, including streetscape
and urban design components, and complete conceptual level engineering
plans. Redevelopment sites along the corridor will be identified,
analyzed, and graphically displayed. The urban design component for this
plan will demonstrate potential building forms, heights and features, as
well as their relative impact (both physically and economically) on the
surrounding neighborhoods.

Dozens of additional projects of this type will be funded through a
recently adopted regional sales tax.

*	For a downloadable version of the Grant Road Corridor Request
for Proposal, please log on to www.tucsonaz.gov/procure
<http://www.tucsonaz.gov/procure> .  More information can be obtained at
www.grantroad.info <http://www.grantroad.info/>  and www.tucsonaz.gov
<http://www.tucsonaz.gov/> .   

 

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