RFP - Comprehensive Plan Update Consultant Services

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS 
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE 
DESCHUTES COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT

Deschutes County Community Development Department is soliciting proposals to provide consultant services to lead a major update of the Deschutes County Comprehensive Plan.  In general, the scope of services being sought includes:

1. Review and evaluate the existing Comprehensive Plan
2. Understand the issues of unique concern to Deschutes County and build upon prior planning efforts.
3. Develop and initiate, with staff, countywide conversations about Deschutes County’s future specifically related to the unincorporated area.
4. Establish and execute, with staff, a communication and information strategy so there is appropriate community/stakeholder/business involvement throughout the planning process for the Comprehensive Plan update and visioning.
5. Define the role of the Planning Commission for engaging the community and receiving public input.
6. Coordinate with staff to develop in-house community-wide surveys, an interactive project website, GIS maps, StoryMaps, and a social media presence.
7. Facilitate a creative and innovative public outreach and participatory process in coordination with staff to gather community input:
   • Facilitate and conduct in-person and virtual public meetings, panels, in-person forums, community conversations, open houses, and work sessions with frequency, timing, and at locations to generate the best results. For example, explore opportunities to reach out to residents during non-traditional hours and days of the week. It is also important to recognize that traditional public forums may not be feasible or advisable as a result of public health concerns.
   • Facilitate community visioning forums that focus on understanding what the unincorporated area should look like in twenty years.
   • Use technological best practices to facilitate meetings and the visioning process.
   • Actively engage community members and stakeholders.
   • Create a public involvement and participation process that assists staff and culminates in the adoption of an updated Comprehensive Plan and vision tailored for a twenty-year horizon
   • Formulate and recommend an updated Comprehensive Plan with revised vision statement, existing conditions, goals, and policies and establish as a separate document, a suggested implementation plan based on the updated goals and policies

Sealed RFPs must be received by the Community Development Department, 117 NW Lafayette Avenue (PO Box 6005, Bend Oregon 97708), Bend, Oregon 97703 by 4:00 p.m. (Pacific Standard Time) on January 3, 2022

See the attached documents below for full RFP details, requirements, future addendums, or any other items.

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