Board of Commissioners, of the County of Beaver, Pennsylvania, is seeking sealed qualification proposals from qualified firms for Professional Services to prepare a Comprehensive Plan for Beaver County Pennsylvania. Beaver County is located in Western Pennsylvania bordering Ohio in the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area. Based on the 2020 Census Beaver County's 2020 population is 168,215, down from the 2020 Census count of 170,539 and the 1970 peak of 208,418. The county has a mix of small urban communities, most with decreased populations, and suburban and rural areas with stable populations. The county's economy is transitioning from steel and associated industries that collapsed in the 1980s to a more diversified economy of smaller and more specialized manufacturers plus service businesses and health care. Construction of the Shell Petrochemical plant in Beaver County was completed late this past summer. This ethane cracker plant is a major petrochemical plant that will employ 600 people and produce polyethylene from the abundances of shale gas in the region. There is potential to spur additional industrial and business development. Once all timely submitted qualification proposals are evaluated and reviewed, the County of Beaver Board of Commissioners will select, for contract negotiations, the vendor whose qualification proposal they solely deem to have the experience and qualifications to be the most advantageous for the County of Beaver Agreement commences: Early Spring, 2023 The County of Beaver Board of Commissioners reserve the right to reject any and all proposals, to waive any informalities in any proposal, or to cancel this RFQ in its entirety, when it is in the best interest of the County of Beaver All questions must be submitted by November 9, 2022 at 4:00pm and answers will be posted on
the Beaver County website. The method of Contractor Selection has not been Determined at this time.
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