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Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for Joint Procurement of On-Call Transit Planning/Engineering Services
Bret Martin, CAMPO Staff
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In 2016, CAMPO, GoTriangle, and the City of Raleigh collectively launched a solicitation for on-call transit planning services to be used by those parties for Wake County Transit Plan implementation studies, plans, assessments, and other activities. The overall procurement process was led and managed by CAMPO staff with participants from each of the other procurement parties contributing to the identification of scope activities to be solicited and the selection of consultants. This solicitation resulted in an on-call list of consultants that was originally intended to kick start the implementation planning activities that needed to be completed with the adoption and successful funding of the Wake County Transit Plan, including the Fixed Guideway Corridors Major Investment Study (MIS), Wake Bus Plan, Community Funding Area Program Management Plan, Wake Transit Staffing Plan, and Public Engagement Strategy/Policy. The on-call list was also subsequently used by the same procurement parties for a myriad of other program- and project-level planning needs and proved to be very beneficial for those involved because of its convenience and the continuity it established with the consulting firms engaged. This original solicitation covered FYs 2017-2021 and expired on June 30, 2021.
In cooperation with the same joint procurement parties, as well as with the Town of Cary as an additional party, CAMPO staff is planning to launch a new on-call solicitation for transit planning, engineering, management, and financial services this winter that can be used for the next five years (FYs 22-26). CAMPO staff extended an invitation to all other agencies/municipalities in Wake County for them to consider participation in the procurement process for these services. Aside from the parties already mentioned, all other agencies/municipalities decl...
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