The intent of this RFQ is to identify one firm or team of firms to assist the City of Sugar Land, Texas with providing professional services for the Mobility Master Plan project.

The City of Sugar Land is embarking upon a new mobility planning process, through which the City aims to consolidate three existing mobility-related plans (Master Thoroughfare Plan, Pedestrian & Bicycle Master Plan, and Comprehensive Mobility Plan), while also separating strategic policy guidance from local project-specific direction. The Mobility Master Plan will be the first step in a multi-step process for mobility planning in Sugar Land and will cover the current City limits and the City’s extra-territorial jurisdiction. 

The City’s first aim of the new planning process is to create a new consolidated mobility plan that combines all modes of transportation and provides high-level strategic guidance for mobility. The existing mobility plans were developed at different times and with differing levels of public input. Some address the same modes and elements of mobility, and in some cases provide differing guidance for implementation.  There are also gaps in policy guidance, which are not addressed in any of the plans. The City’s goal for consolidating these mobility plans is to improve implementation coordination and document clear policy guidance across all modes of transportation in one plan.

The second aim is to provide a separate planning process to address neighborhood and corridor specific issues that are difficult to address during a city-wide planning effort. Once the high-level Mobility Master Plan is complete, the next step would be to develop multiple area and corridor plans to address specific projects based on policy guidance established in the Mobility Master Plan. This two-layered approach will allow the City to target the particular audience that will be most affected by proposed mobility projects in their area, and to develop solutions for local mobility problems based on policy guidance from the Mobility Master Plan.

The Mobility Master Plan will be successful through the completion of the following objectives/ inclusion of the following plan components:

• Prepare a Mobility Master Plan
• Incorporate Recommendations and Create an Implementation Plan
• Address Mobility Policy Questions (related to Complete Streets/ Transportation Options/ Mobility System, Transit, Funding and Technology)
• Prepare Pilot Area Plan(s) (following completion of Mobility Master Plan and pending available budget)

Any questions related to this RFQ should be directed to Jason Poscovsky, Contracts Manager, at jposcovsky@sugarlandtx.gov no later than 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 19, 2019. Responses to questions will be sent to all firms that provide emails by 3:00 p.m. on Friday, September 20, 2019.

RFQ responses must be received by Thursday, October 3, 2019, at 2:00 p.m. CT.

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