City of Memphis, Tennessee seeks to retain the services of a consultant to evaluate and assess the existing structure, operations, and performance of transportation and mobility systems among City divisions and agencies, from planning to implementation to maintenance. City of Memphis is issuing this Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to solicit written proposals from consultants who are interested in providing such services. Based on an evaluation of responses to this RFQ, one team of consultants will be invited to submit a detailed scope of work and participate in further discussions and negotiation of a contract agreement for the requested services. The recent completion and adoption of the City's Memphis 3.0 Comprehensive Plan has brought awareness to issues related to transportation and mobility planning. First, the comprehensive plan seeks to align the goals and priorities of transportation and mobility systems with the plan's focus on citywide and community anchors and the future land use plan. Second, the city's transit plan ("Transit Vision") and complete streets plan have been updated to align with the comprehensive plan. Building off these achievements, the City believes successful implementation of today's comprehensive plans requires public resources, regulations, and actions to be targeted. A common challenge with targeted plan implementation is fragmentation of transportation and mobility planning responsibilities across multiple city and quasi-governmental agencies. The Memphis 3.0 Comprehensive Plan provides a framework for connecting the elements of the plan and its implementation, yet fragmented responsibility for carrying out plans and functions of the city's transportation and mobility systems still creates difficulty in achieving coordination. Further, beyond local transportation stakeholders, this fragmentation results in a lack of representation for transportation and transit impact in land use and development review and coordination issues between local and state/federal agencies on major project implementation. Respondents requesting additional information or clarification shall contact Brynn Wiswall, Purchasing Agent with the City of Memphis, in writing at brynn.wiswall@memphistn.gov. Questions should include RFI #2022/001 in the Subject of the email, reference the section of the RFQ to which the question pertains, and include all contact information for the person submitting the questions. In order to prevent an unfair advantage to any respondent, verbal questions will not be answered. The deadline for submitting questions will be by end of day Tuesday, November 14, 2022, with answers posted to the City's website by end of day Friday, November 18, 2022. Firms may request consideration by submitting one original (clearly marked as such) and four copies of a proposal that follows the submittal format described in Section III of this RFQ to Brynn Wiswall, Purchasing Agent, City of Memphis, 125 North Main, Room 354, Memphis, TN 38103. All qualifications must be received in the Purchasing Agent's office on or before 11:00 PM (Central Time), Tuesday November 29, 2022. The method of contractor selection has not been determined at this time.
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