Vehicle Wildlife Collision Mitigation Planner RFQ - Vehicle-Wildlife Collision Mitigation Planner RFQ

The Chaffee County Planning & Zoning Department is soliciting qualifications for a consultant/contractor to assist in the planning, public engagement, and drafting processes for the County’s Safety Action Plan (SAP) under the Federal Highway Administration’s Safe Streets for All (SS4A) initiative. Specifically, the County is seeking to retain a professional with significant experience in planning and implementing efforts to mitigate vehicle-wildlife collisions (VWCs) to work on portions of the SAP dealing with VWC mitigation. VWCs make up over 25% of the County’s traffic incidents, and a comparable portion of the SAP will be dedicated to reducing related safety concerns.

The County’s expectation is that the VWC mitigation contractor selected through this RFQ process will work as part of a team with the consultant/contractor ultimately selected to lead and deliver the overall SAP. The County will issue a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the overall SAP following the selection of the VWC mitigation contractor, and will require that any consultant/contractor responding to the SAP RFP work directly with the County’s VWC mitigation contractor to produce the deliverable SAP pursuant to SS4A requirements.