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Request for Proposals for Comprehensive General Plan Update, Environmental Impact Report, and Central Merced/Downtown Rail Station Area Plan (City of Merced) The City of Merced requests proposals from qualified consulting firms to partner with the City of Merced to prepare a Comprehensive General Plan Update and Environmental Impact Report (EIR) and as a separate project, a Central Merced/Downtown Rail Station Area Plan (CMDRSAP). Consultants are welcome to propose on either the General Plan Update or Station Area Plan or both. Project Managers / City Contact Diana Lowrance, Deputy Director of Development Services, and Leah Brown, Management Analyst, will be the City of Merced Project Managers for the Comprehensive General Plan Update and Environmental Impact Report and will represent the City of Merced and render overall supervision of the progress of the work. All services to be performed by the consultant will be subject to approval and acceptance by the Director of Development Services or designee and no payment will be made to the consultant until accepted and approved. For the Central Merced/Downtown Rail Station Area Plan (CMDRSAP), Deputy City Manager Frank Quintero will be the Project Manager in coordination with the Director of Development Services. Any questions about the RFP should be directed to Leah Brown, who may be reached at: Phone: (209) 385-6928; and Email: brownl@cityofmerced.org. The City's Project Managers will work cooperatively with the consultant(s), by 1) providing the consultant with whatever information is available regarding its requirements for the project; 2) examining project related documents submitted by the consultant and rendering decisions promptly to avoid unreasonable delay in the progress of the consultant's work; 3) furnishing information required of it as expeditiously as necessary for the orderly progress of work, and 4) assigning other support staff as necessary to assist the consultant to complete the items within the scope of work. Question Deadline 11/19/2024 Please hold your questions for that meeting. If a representative from the consultant team is not available to attend that meeting, please submit your questions in writing to the Project Manager at least 1 day prior to the above meeting. Answers will be summarized and posted electronically. Central Merced/Downtown Rail Station Area Plan (CMDRSAP) The funding for the Central Merced/Downtown Rail Station Area Plan (CMDRSAP) has a deadline of June 30, 2026, so work on that project must be completed by March 30, 2026. Both projects would run concurrently. The method of Contractor Selection has not been Determined at this time.