Site work for a road / highway in Traverse City, Michigan. Completed plans call for site work for a road / highway.

Traverse City Light and Power (TCLP) is seeking proposals for owners engineering services to assist TCLP in the design and construction of a fiber optic network throughout the City of Traverse City. Traverse City Light and Power (TCLP) issues this Request for Proposal (RFP) to convey its interest in partnering with a sophisticated and motivated Bidder to bring Smart Grid Fiber, Gigabit-class broadband service to the region. The successful Bidder will provide hourly engineering services to aid in the expansion of the existing TCLP network supporting a fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) deployment capable of enhancing broadband connectivity to residents, businesses, and community anchor institutions (CAIs) in the TCLP service area.' TCLP owns and operates a robust fiber optic network that includes infrastructure throughout its service area, encompassing the City of Traverse City (City) and surrounding communities. TCLP currently serves residential and commercial customers over its fiber network, through lit and dark fiber offerings direct to customers. The RFP anticipates that network deployment will begin as a phased approach. During the construction of a phase, customer drops shall also be installed for customers that have expressed interest in receiving service. The Smart Grid FTTP service area will eventually expand into the remainder of the existing TCLP utility footprint after a successful phase expansion. The Outside Plant (OSP) will follow TCLP's electric distribution circuits to TCLP's Electric Grid with modern day Smart Grid capabilities, along with ease of install. The partnership should expand TCLP's current network and operations while developing a cohesive approach to filling broadband connectivity gaps in the greater Traverse City area. Through this partnership, TCLP seeks to increase the availability and affordability of a minimum of 1 Gigabit per second (Gbps) service. Faster services should also be incorporated into the design as well to provide future proofing of the network. We welcome bids from all prospective Bidders. TCLP encourages discussion of alternative approaches that can improve constructability, decrease cost, and/or increase performance, reliability, maintainability and customer satisfaction. The selected firm for owners engineering services will assist TCLP with review of the TCLPfiber Smart Grid FTTP RFP Core TCLP Bidder Documents, Forms and Requirements. This includes the evaluation of bids and a recommendation for the successful bidder, as well as support during the design and construction phases of the project on a time and material hourly basis. For the design and construction of the fiber optic network TCLP desires a contract with a single firm or partnership of firms. An expected alternative in the Design/Build RFP will be for operational assistance of the network, including onboarding new customers, customer service and maintenance and technical support.