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For all questions concerning the proposal, submit email correspondence to the Bulloch County Purchasing Office at fbragg@bullochcounty.net. All email correspondence during the question & answer period must include the project identifier FY25-HMP-EMA01 in the subject line of the email. Description: The Bulloch County Board of Commissioners is accepting sealed proposals from qualified firms for the Hazard Mitigation Plan Update. DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT: The Bulloch County Board of Commissioners (herein after referred to as the County) is accepting sealed proposals from qualified firms for the Hazard Mitigation Plan Update. TIME ALLOWED FOR PERFORMANCE: The project shall commence immediately following the issuance of the notice to proceed. The Contractor shall provide a draft report for public comment 180 calendar days after the issuance of the Notice to Proceed and provide a final draft with address comments 270 calendar days after issuance of the Notice to Proceed. The County shall not be liable for payment of any work done or any costs incurred by any Offeror prior to the County issuing a written Notice to Proceed. TERMS AND TIME OF PAYMENT: The County's standard payment terms are Net 30. Any deviation from standard terms must be specified in the awarded contract, and both parties must agree on such deviation. The Contractor shall provide Bulloch County with a final draft plan that meets both GEMA and FEMA approval guidelines. The Plan shall contain each of the following elements at a minimum: 1.1 1.2 Executive Summary Description of the Planning Process and Participants _ Identify any jurisdictions that participated in the planning for the previous plan but did not participate in the update. _ Describe the process used to review and analyze each section of the plan, as well as the process used to determine if a section warranted an update. 1.3 Goals and Objectives Setting _ This update is an opportunity for jurisdictions to reconsider the goals and objectives. For goals and actions that remain, the plan must document that they were re-evaluated and deemed valid and effective. _ Goals and objectives shall include the community's strategy for new or continued NFIP participation. Continue to use the "STAPLEE Criteria" (Social, Technical, Administrative, Political, Legal, Economic, and Environmental), or incorporate the STAPLEE Criteria if not previously used to assess the value of and develop an understanding of the cost-effectiveness of mitigation action steps. Update Action Items. If actions remain unchanged, the updated plan must indicate why changes are not necessary. 1.4 Hazard and Risk Assessment. _ Address any newly identified hazards that pose a more significant threat than was apparent when the previously approved plan was prepared. _ Discuss new occurrences of hazard events and update the probability of future occurrences. _ Incorporate new information where data deficiencies were identified in the previous plan, or if the data deficiencies remain unresolved, explain why they remain unresolved and include a schedule to resolve the issue. _ Include current inventory of existing and proposed buildings, infrastructure, and critical facilities in hazard areas, including existing NFIP repetitive loss structures. The community will determine how far into the future they wish to go in considering proposed buildings and Critical Facilities based on and timed with the data gathering phase of their comprehensive plan or land use plan update. _ The loss estimates to be updated to reflect any changes to the hazard profile and/or the inventory of structures. Any changes to analysis methodologies must be noted. Any previously noted data deficiencies should be updated or explained. _ Include a general overview of land uses and types of development occurring within the community and accent any new information. _ If there are changes in the risk assessment or the vulnerability of the community to the hazards, the information must be attributed to the appropriate jurisdiction(s) or to the whole planning area, whichever applies. _ Each jurisdiction's risks must be assessed where they vary from the risks facing the entire county. _ Continue to use all available tool sets and data as the GMIS is enhanced (for example: repetitive losses_) 1.5 Mitigation Strategies and Activities _ The contractor shall prepare a section that identifies and analyzes a comprehensive range of specific mitigation actions and projects being considered to reduce the effects of each hazard, with particular emphasis on new and existing buildings and infrastructure. _ The updated hazard mitigation strategy shall include a description of mitigation goals to reduce or avoid long-term vulnerabilities to the identified hazards. _ The plan shall describe vulnerability in terms of providing a general description of land uses and development trends within the community so that mitigation options can be considered in future land use decisions. Shall include evaluation and prioritization for any new mitigation action steps 1.6 Draft and Final Plans _ Contractor shall prepare an action plan describing how the actions identified will be prioritized, implemented, funded, and administered by the local jurisdictions. Since this is a multi-jurisdictional plan, the Contractor shall prepare identifiable action items specific to each jurisdiction. _ Contractor shall prepare a draft plan for review by the Hazard Mitigation Planning Committee. _ Contractor shall incorporate comments from the draft plan into the final plan for presentation to the County Commission and City Councils of each participating municipality. 1.7 Plan Adoption _ Contractor shall continue to work with the communities through the final adoption and approval phases by local and state government, and FEMA. _ The plan will be submitted for State review and recommendation prior to adoption. _ Upon recommendation from GEMA, the county and participating municipalities will adopt the plan. _ The adopted plan will be submitted for FEMA review and approval. 1.8 Plan Implementation _ Contractor shall prepare cost estimates for all recommended projects and shall identify possible funding sources to implement recommended projects. _ Describe other planning mechanisms or ordinances that this plan will be incorporated into. 1.9 Plan Maintenance _ Contractor shall include a section describing the method and schedule of monitoring, evaluating, and updating the mitigation plan within a five-year cycle and also how the community public participation in the plan maintenance process. _ Contractor will include an analysis of whether the previously approved plan's method and schedule for monitoring, evaluating, and updating the plan worked, and what elements or processes, if any, were changed; and discuss the method and schedule to be used over the next five years. _ Describe how the community was kept involved during the plan maintenance process over the previous five years, within the planning process section of the plan update. _ The plan maintenance section shall describe how the community will involve the public during the plan maintenance process over the next five years. It should be noted that all sections of the Plan as presented shall be updated, and the Plan shall remain in the same format for update as the existing Plan. Any additions to the plan shall be approved by the Committee. No deletions in content shall be made to the Plan without the approval of the Committee. All charts, graphs, maps, tables, pictures, references, and informational materials, including those in the Appendices within the Plan, shall be updated to present-day statistics/information. The Contractor shall conduct at least two public meetings: 1) to identify issues and 2) to present the draft plan. This Plan shall meet the criteria of FEMA's Section 322 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, 44CFR, Parts 201 and 206, enacted under Sec. 104 of the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 (DMA 2000) Further, the Plan shall be compliant with Bulloch County's Grant Application for funding and the Grantee/Subgrantee Agreement. The Plan must follow GEMA's template for doing the Plan. Finally, the Plan must be compliant with all requirements of HMGP, PDM-C, and FMA funding sources.