[Consultantservices] RFQ posted Wednesday, February 14, 2007, 3:45 p.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>/consultant/choose.htm
<http://www.planning.org%3e/consultant/choose.htm> 
  

Request for Qualifications  - Consultant Services  

Infrastructure Financing (Impact Fee) Update
The City of Phoenix, Arizona
Submittal Deadline: March 16, 2007

The City of Phoenix, Arizona is soliciting a Request For Qualifications
to prepare a study to update its Parks (including Trails), Open Space
and Major Streets and Bridges Impact Fees within the Northern Impact Fee
Area and the Southern Impact Fee Area. Note: Major Streets and Bridges
also contains culverts, storm drains, and tiling. 

Through this RFQ, the City will create a Qualified Vendors List (QVL)
for infrastructure financing (impact fee) consulting services.  The
selection of one or more firms to the QVL will be based upon the merits
of the response to this request and the needs of the City. Once
established, the QVL will be in effect for a maximum of three (3) years.
Firms posted to the list may be selected to respond to individual
contracting opportunities with separate scopes of work in the field of
impact fee consulting services.

The scope of work outlined below should not be construed as a detailed
description of tasks to be performed but rather a general outline of
consulting services.  Respondents selected and posted to the QVL may be
asked to respond to contracting opportunities for one or more of the
following services depending upon a Respondent's expertise and the needs
of any specific project.  A detailed scope of work will be agreed upon
as part of the contract negotiations.

The studies contained in this RFQ need to address several factors:

*	Projections and timing of future development, both residential
and non-residential, for the Northern and Southern Impact Fee Areas
based on land use plans and data supplied by the City; 
*	Evaluate and recommended changes, if needed, to service
standards used by the impact fee category being studied; 
*	Equivalent dwelling unit (EDU) factors, more specifically, how
do various land uses place a demand upon the infrastructure for the
impact fee category being studied; 
*	Capital facility needs of the impact fee category being studied;

*	Capital facility costs (including unit costs of major items such
as land, construction, design, equipment, etc.) of the impact fee
category being studied; 
*	Land costs by Impact Fee Area for the impact fee category being
studied; 
*	An indexing mechanism to quantify future land and construction
costs and changes; 
*	Offsets to impact fees paid by new development (such as property
tax, gas tax, sales tax, etc) - See Attachment B3; 
*	Identify methods for adjusting fees or costs for uses unrelated
to new development, such as pass-through traffic, partial service areas
outside impact fee boundaries, incremental costs already constructed
major facilities such as water treatment plants and solid waste disposal
centers; 
*	Review and recommend any changes to applications, by program, of
the fees to smaller geographic areas within the six major Impact Fee
Areas; 

With regard to Major Streets and Bridges:

*	Review the current practice and develop alternative methods with
advantages, disadvantages and exit strategies for continuing , modifying
or eliminating major street and bridge-like infrastructure and recommend
a best practice for the program, given factors such as: 

	*	Current City ordinance mandates certain offsite
improvements by development community; 
	*	Ability to fund and provide needed large scale
infrastructure given current credit practice, especially as it relates
to street construction; 
	*	Legal, legislative, development and other environmental
factors; 
	*	Work in progress and/or not fully rebated for
developer-installed infrastructure. 

*	Identify and quantify current and potential claims for refund or
credits from existing agreements and in-progress work by developers to
install major street and bridge infrastructure; 
*	Evaluate current practice and alternative methods for providing
credits to developers for installing street program infrastructure and
recommend a best practice; 

With regard to Parks:

*	Provide a summary review of various alternative methodologies
with their respective advantages and disadvantages provided that the
City does not wish to charge commercial properties a Parks impact fee
(assuming that commercial creates a demand for parks); 
*	Provide the best methodology for including costs of
partially-completed projects in the fees; and 

With regard to Open Space:

*	Provide a summary review of various alternative methodologies
with their respective advantages and disadvantages provided that the
City does not wish to charge commercial properties a Parks impact fee
(assuming that commercial creates a demand for parks). 

Currently the City has the following major categories of impact fees:

Equipment Repair Facilities
Fire Protection
Libraries
Major Streets and Bridges
Open Space (Northern Impact Fee Area Only)
Parks (including Trails)
Police
Solid Waste Disposal
Storm Drainage (Southern Impact Fee Area Only)
Wastewater
Water

Beginning in 2007, the City will solicit proposals on an annual basis
intended to provide an independent evaluation of the Development Impact
Fee Program. Each year one third of the impact fee categories will be
evaluated, with a report on the results of the evaluation to be prepared
for City Council review. This RFQ is the first in a series of those
updates.

To secure a copy of the official Request For Qualifications (RFQ),
interested parties should request a copy after 8:00 a.m. (MST) on
February 12, 2007, by phone at 602-495-7026, or by fax at 602-495-3793,
or by e-mail at timothy.tilton at phoenix.gov
<mailto:timothy.tilton at phoenix.gov> ., or in writing at the address
stated below: City of Phoenix Planning Department, 200 West Washington
Street, 6th Floor, Phoenix, AZ 85003-1611, or on-line at
http://phoenix.gov/rfp/index.html <http://phoenix.gov/rfp/index.html> .

 

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