SLED Opportunity · CALIFORNIA · SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF GOVERNMENTS
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SCAG seeks a consortium of regional economic experts for its Quarterly Economic Roundtable to support regional transportation and development planning across six Southern California counties. Experts in specified geographic and economic specialties will be selected through an RFP process.
BACKGROUND:The Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) is designated as the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for six (6) southern California Counties (Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura) and 191 cities in an area covering more than 38,000 square miles.The agency develops long-range regional transportation plans including sustainable communities’ strategies and growth forecast components, regional transportation improvement programs, regional housing needs allocations, and a portion of the South Coast Air Quality management plan. As a metropolitan planning organization with a focus on transportation and regional development patterns, understanding the economic drivers and trends of Southern California is important in developing and analyzing the impacts of the Regional Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy (RTP/SCS), also referred to as “Connect SoCal.”Regular analysis and discussion of the regional economic trends and events inform the multi-year development and implementation of the RTP/SCS and support ongoing communication with SCAG stakeholders through various outreach efforts, chiefly, quarterly presentations to SCAG’s Regional Council.OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this procurement is to convene a consortium of regional economic experts (“the Economic Roundtable”) to support SCAG’s overall planning activities. SCAG seeks experts in each of the 12 specialties listed below (six (6) counties and six (6) topic areas). Prospective Economic Roundtable members should indicate up to three (3) specialties in their proposal. Proposals should describe the qualifications and proposed approach specific to the desired work tasks. SCAG expects to select multiple consultants for the contract award. SCAG expects that all areas of expertise listed below will be represented in the consortium of selected experts. Upon evaluation, SCAG expects to select five (5) to eight (8) consultants to ensure all 12 specialties (geographic and topic areas of expertise) will be represented in the consortium of selected experts.Geographic specialty:• Imperial County• Los Angeles County• Orange County• Riverside County• San Bernardino County• Ventura CountyTopic specialty (irrespective of geographic area):• Access to economic opportunity and mobility• Labor economics• Workforce development• Analysis of industry competitiveness, industry clusters, and agglomeration• Economic impacts of housing and housing policy• Emerging technologies and trends and their impacts on the regional economy Pre-Bid Meeting Information: No Online Q&A: Yes Location Information: Department: Contracts Address: 900 Wilshire BlvdSuite 1700Los Angeles, California90017 County: Los Angeles Other Details: The assigned Contracts Administrator is the only person to contact during the selection process and may be contracted at anytime.
SLED stands for State, Local, and Education. These are solicitations issued by state governments, counties, cities, school districts, utilities, and higher education institutions — as opposed to federal agencies.
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