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The City of Columbus, Department of Public Service is receiving proposals for professional services for the Roadway-LinkUS Mobility Corridors Initiative - Communications, Outreach & Engagement RFP. The intent of this contract is to provide the City of Columbus and program partners COTA, MORPC, and Franklin County with additional resources to perform various communications, outreach, and engagement-related tasks for the deployment of the LinkUS mobility initiative. The Consultant shall be readily available to perform such tasks when requested by the City and/or other partners. Services on request and detailed scopes for individual tasks will be developed as requested and work will be authorized as individual scopes are developed. The ability to complete projects in a short timeframe will be a critical point in the evaluation process. The Consultant shall be expected to work on multiple tasks concurrently, and other such work as may be necessary to complete the contract, as set forth in this Request for Proposals (RFP). All questions concerning the RFP are to be sent to capitalprojects@columbus.gov. The last day to submit questions will be specified in the RFP; phone calls will not be accepted. A pre-proposal meeting will not be held. Questions Due Date: Feb 6th 2023, 11:30 PM EST City certified MBE/WBE firms that submit a proposal may be eligible to receive an incentive credit of 5% of the total evaluation points used to score Requests for Proposals. To be eligible for the incentive credit, the firm must: o Be the prime consultant. o Be certified by the City's Office of Diversity and Inclusion as an MBE/WBE capable of providing the type of professional services sought by the City at the time of the proposal due date. o Be a member of the ethnic and gender groups determined by the City's 2019 Disparity Study to have a statistically significant disparity in the awarding of City professional services contracts. (The eligible groups for Professional Services RFP's are City certified African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Females.) o Submit a completed Bid Discount / Proposal Incentive Request Form with the proposal. Contact the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, Tia Roseboro, Contract Compliance and Certification Programs Manager, at THRoseboro@Columbus.gov with any questions concerning companies eligible to participate in the program.