Site work and paving for a road / highway in Parkland, Washington. Conceptual plans call for site work for a road / highway; and for paving for a road / highway.

The successful firm will have the opportunity to develop and implement a community-based transportation options education project for residents and commuters. Participants in the project will learn about the benefits of riding the bus or train, joining a carpool or vanpool, and bicycling and walking for their local and regional trips. Transportation options training, tools, and support services will support participants through the adoption process. The Pierce County Planning and Public Works Department is a diverse department with motivated professionals working to ensure Pierce County is positioned to handle growth while building, operating, and maintaining reliable infrastructure to support livable communities. This project will be housed in the Long-Range Planning (LRP) Division. Part of LRP's work program is to provide support to employers implementing commute options programs, commuters, and residents. This work is accomplished under the partnership umbrella "Ride Together Pierce (RTP)." RTPs website is a valuable resource for information about the many services provided. Pierce County wishes to offer a sustainable transportation education project along a portion of the State Route 7 (SR-7) Corridor. There is some exciting project-related work happening in this corridor, including: Parkland-Spanaway is a Blue Zones Project(R) area. Blue Zones works with the Parkland-Spanaway community to create a healthier place to live, learn, work, play, and worship. When the entire community participates--from worksites and schools to restaurants and grocery stores--small changes contribute to huge benefits for all: lowered healthcare costs, improved productivity, and ultimately, a higher quality of life. Pierce County is scheduled to start design of safety and active transportation improvements along 'C' Street South and Tule Lake Road South in 2025, which will connect the Garfield Business District to the Parkland Trail. Blue Zones is working with Pierce County to define an interim, pilot project on these roads that can be implemented by 2026, before the ultimate permanent project can be completed. Pierce Transit launched their Stream Community Line along SR-7 which provides service between Spanaway and Tacoma. With 14 stops, buses run every 20 minutes during peak commute times, on weekdays mornings and afternoon. Stream is in addition to Pierce Transit Route 1, that also runs along SR-7, providing local service with more stop locations. Major destinations include Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) and Sprinker Recreation Center. PLU is a major employer with approximately 730 employees and 2,700 students. Sprinker Recreation Center has ball fields, an ice-skating rink, and a community space. The first phase of construction for the Parkland Community Trail, from Sprinker Recreation Center to Tule Lake Road, ban fall 2025. It is anticipated to be substantially complete by late 2026. The new trail will provide a fully accessible path for non-motorized users connecting Sprinker Recreation Center to Pacific Lutheran University. SR 7/Pacific Highway Crossing and Signalization project replaces existing rapid flashing beacons with overhead pedestrian signals at 11 locations along State Route 7 in the Pierce County communities of Parkland and Spanaway. Some locations will have improved pedestrian ramps, extensions to the median islands, turn restrictions, and additional pavement markings. Background Funding for the work may be from County, State, or Federal sources or a combination of such sources. All work in which Federal Funds are involved must comply with all current Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) requirements, including those in the WSDOT Local Agency Guidelines (LAG Manual). The County has received funding for this project, and it is administered by WSDOT Local Programs, therefore, the successful firm will negotiate towards a Local Agency Consultant Agreement for these services and will follow all the guidelines listed in Chapter 31 - Using Consultants in the WSDOT Local Agency Guidelines manual. Question Submission Deadline: December 8, 2025, 4:00pm Proposal Submission Deadline: December 12, 2025, 1:00pm All questions must be submitted within the County's eProcurement Portal. Proposal Evaluation: Approximately three weeks after proposal submission deadline, proposals will be evaluated and interviews may be held if multiple proposers are deemed capable of meeting the requirements. Estimated Notice of Intention to Negotiate a Contract: Approximately eight weeks after proposal submission deadline. Estimated Date of Contract Execution : Approximately fourteen weeks After proposal submission deadline. The initial contract period is anticipated to be for 24 months. The County has the option of renewing for an additional two years after the initial contract is executed. The actual schedule will be negotiated with the selected firm based on consultant and agency staff availability and finalized scope of work. Estimated Initial Value of Resulting Contract: $350,000.00 - $450,000.00 Scope of Work Pierce County seeks consulting services as follows: Task 1: Identify the Final Project Area Determine which Pierce County school districts, community groups, businesses or neighborhoods that have potential to adopt new sustainable transportation habits for all trip types. Use the data to determine current trip making habits and population areas that can benefit from using sustainable transportation modes. Take into consideration: Underserved communities If two or more travel sheds are comparable (such as access to transit and walking/biking infrastructure), then Pierce County will first consider communities that spend a disproportionate high percentage of their household budget toward transportation costs. Focus on areas where residents have access to transit, park-and-ride lots, and walking/biking infrastructure. Pierce County recommends using census data, WSDOT travel data, Puget Sound Regional Council Household Travel data, Environmental Health Disparities mapping, health department data, Action Project Mapping, H+T Map | H+T Index (cnt.org), UW-T Office of Community Partnerships, Washington Environmental Health Disparities Map | Washington State Department of Health, OnTheMap, consultant in-house datasets, or similar and/or easy to obtain datasets. The scoping for this task should be appropriate to the project budget and is not expected to exceed 3-4% of the budget. Task 2: Finalize the Project Strategies Select the final project strategies based on the needs of the selected area. Engage with residents, school districts, universities, businesses, transit agencies, community organizations, other Pierce County departments and divisions, and other groups to determine the trip reduction program components that meet their needs. The strategies, to be approved by Pierce County, may include items proposed by the consultant and project ideas from the following list: Building Strong Communities: Partner with Pierce Transit outreach teams on any marketing and educational efforts aimed at Pierce County residents and businesses. Expand the reach of Pierce Transit's Small Business ORCA program. Utilize Pierce Transit's travel trainers. Support the combination of bicycling and transit to meet first-and-last mile transportation needs. Establish relationships with community organizations, neighborhood associations, and school districts to identify shared visions. Help put into place action steps that allow us to collaborate on work tasks. Identify, document and report any unforeseen needs, challenges or barriers to using sustainable transportation options. When possible, pivot project strategies and/or seek partner solutions that address these needs or barriers. Train community organizations to be sustainable transportation ambassadors so they can inform their membership on sustainable transportation solutions and host events. Reimburse the organizations and ambassadors for providing sustainable transportation assistance. Assist community organizations to implement and maintain community-led actions such as setting-up bike fleets, creating a buddy program, classes, rides, host skills courses, fix-a-bike events, or other community identified needs. Work with youth camp providers to develop and offer sustainable transportation camps that teach youth how to safely ride the bus, bicycle and walk around their community. Work with bicycle groups and retailers to develop and offer ways for community members to earn free bicycles and gear, classroom/school programs, host skills courses and youth camps. Work with community organizations to install and support bicycle fix-it stations or tool lending programs. Table at community events, fairs, farmer markets, churches, shopping malls, and other places where people gather. Meeting Individual Needs and Addressing Barriers: Identify and develop outreach programming for underinvested population areas. Door-to-door outreach and individualized trip planning assistance to help residents utilize sustainable transportation options. Organize transit fieldtrips to teach people how to ride the bus or promote RTP's bus-buddy program. Organize bicycle riding skills events, instruction or maintenance classes, and no drop bicycle rides. Offer free bicycle helmets, gear, safety gear, bicycle locks, bicycle tune-up and minor fixes. Establish free lending bicycle tool kits. Offer a recruitment program that allows current ride sharers to add a rider to their carpool/vanpool or become a bus or bicycle buddy. Offer ORCA cards loaded with e-purse or pay for trips taken by Pierce County residents. Offer free vanpool fares to add riders to existing vanpools or form new vanpools. Offer incentives as allowed by the grantor or seek free items from businesses. Allowable items that can be purchased include outreach items such as t-shirts, low-cost safety items, educational items, transit and vanpool fare, and parking passes for rideshares at transit centers or park-and-rides. Getting the Word Out: Promote work from home options and compressed work week schedules. Promote RTP's online toolkit. Promote and/or offer free or reduced Washington State University Telework Worker Certificate program fees. Promote carpool and vanpool ride matching and bus and bike buddies on RideTogetherPierceCalendar.com. Develop and deploy educational opportunities. Tap into local media influencers to show followers how to use sustainable transportation modes or use services. Marketing campaigns using social norming (your neighbors carpool, ride transit...) Promote and/or enhance RTP campaigns and promotions. Some campaign offerings may change in 2026. Welcome to the neighborhood kits. When necessary, trans-create or translate materials or hire interpreters for in-person events. Use info graphics or photos instead of text heavy materials. The consultant will have access to a large photo album of local rideshare photos for materials. Task 3: Deploy the Project Strategies The consultant will be responsible for developing, deploying, measuring, mid-project assessment and reporting on progress of the strategies for the length of the project timeline. This includes all aspects to develop and deploy the agreed upon strategies, including, but not limited to, staffing, educational and marketing material development, printing, media buys, postage, purchasing and disseminating incentives, purchase of promotional items or safety gear, rental space, tracking and measurement, promotion, partnership outreach, and translations, transcreations, and interpretive services. Task 4: Determine Project Measurements and Data Collection Methods Help the County decide on the final performance measurement goals for the project. Based on the strategies selected, identify ways to measure project goal progress and outcomes. Deploy the agreed upon data collection method(s). Use mid-project measurements to determine if the project requires adjustment to improve project outcome. Report on the collected measurements. Provide an analysis of the data. Task 5: Project Management Project Kick-off meeting to establish project goals and expectations, roles and responsibilities, updated high-level timeline, project management needs, project homework, communication protocols and progress reporting. The consultant will provide the meeting agenda, supporting materials and provide post meeting action items. Adhere to brand guidelines and templates provided by Pierce County. Provide monthly email progress reports describing the work completed, measurement data collected and upcoming tasks. Check-in meetings, as needed. The consultant will prepare the meeting agenda, supporting materials and provide post meeting action items. Track all outreach with partners and key individuals involved in the project. Tracking should include contact information, their role with the project, meeting and contact dates, partner outcomes, key takeaways and follow-up tasks for Pierce County. Track Pierce County's Direct Cost budget and expenses. A monthly invoice and back-up documentation. A final invoice and back-up documentation. Final project report describing project outcomes: Project description including project timeline and groups/people consulted with on the project Tasks completed and the outcome of each task Collected performance measurements and analysis of the collected data Evaluate the success of the grant project tasks Lessons learned Identify outstanding needs not met by the project Recommendations for next steps and ideas for meeting outstanding needs Recommendations on how to make this project applicable, scalable or viable for other corridors. Infographic of the project and accomplishments for leadership team (one or two-pages, engaging graphic representation of work completed and measurement data collected) Audience: Written so that anyone not involved with the project has a complete understanding of the project, tasks completed, important decisions, outcomes, lessons learned, gaps not met and next steps. All created documents, artwork creations, graphics and files in native format and Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, pdf *The value for this project is based on a financial range. The value is listed as the highest possible cost from the range provided by a stakeholder or official project document.