[Consultantservices] RFP posted Friday, October 6, 2006, 4:24 p.m.

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Request for Proposals - Consultant Services 

Statewide Conservation and Preservation Plan 
Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR)
Submittal Deadline: November 17, 2006

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Legislative-Citizen Commission on
Minnesota Resources is requesting proposals to prepare a comprehensive
Statewide Conservation and Preservation Plan for Minnesota's environment
and natural resources.

This request is being published as a precursor to the plan required in
M.L. 2006, Chp. 243, Sec. 20, Subd. 10, Statewide Conservation and
Preservation Plan.

Goals and Objectives - prepare a statewide comprehensive plan for the
conservation and preservation of Minnesota's environment and natural
resources. The comprehensive Statewide Conservation and Preservation
Plan (the Plan) will inventory and assess the current state of
Minnesota's environment and natural resources based on a variety of
existing plans that currently guide the conservation of Minnesota's
environment and natural resources including air, land, water, fish,
wildlife and outdoor recreation. The Plan will review and analyze the
existing plans and identify inadequacies and information gaps. The Plan
will incorporate and integrate the valid existing information and build
upon that information to prepare the new Plan. The Plan will address
important current, emerging and future issues and trends affecting these
resources. The Plan will prioritize issues, provide implementation
strategies to address the issues, provide general cost and benefit
analysis of the proposed strategies and identify benchmarks to enable
ongoing measurement and evaluation of progress in achieving the desired
results identified in the Plan.

Use of the Plan - it will provide both short-term and long-term guidance
on the conservation and preservation of Minnesota's environment and
natural resources. The plan will enable a wide variety of public and
private decision makers to work together to achieve common overall
environment and natural resource goals and ensure their sustainability.

Scope of Work - Developing and implementing a process for gathering
information, addressing the topics in the constitutional language of the
Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund (air, land water, fish
wildlife and other natural resources (outdoor recreation), identifying
current issues, identifying future issues, identifying major benchmarks
and other ways to measure results, recommend implementation strategies
and end products, and describe the costs and benefits associated with
the recommendations. See the full FRP for more details.

The LCCMR has estimated that the cost of this project should not exceed
$300,000. This request for proposals does not obligate the LCCMR to
complete the project, and the LCCMR reserves the right to cancel the
solicitation if it is considered to be in its best interest.

A preliminary plan is to be completed by June 2007 with a final plan
completed by June 2008.

See the full RFP on The LCCMR web site at  <http://www.lcmr.leg.mn>
www.lcmr.leg.mn or for a copy of the full RFP contact:

Michael McDonough, Research and Planning Manager
Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources
100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. 
Room 65, State Office Building
St. Paul, Minnesota 55155 
651-296-2443
 <mailto:michael.mcdonough at lcmr.leg.mn> michael.mcdonough at lcmr.leg.mn

This is the only person designated to answer questions regarding this
RFP.

Interested parties should submit a proposal to the LCCMR office by 2:00
pm on Friday, November 17, 2006.

 

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