Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Department of North Dakota Parks and Recreation, is soliciting proposals for a Dynamic Pricing Study. Most of the hospitality and transportation sectors have been using dynamic pricing for several decades. North Dakota Parks and Recreation is looking to adopt industry standard practices anticipating that they will improve the customer experience as well as helping to even out demand by offering pricing incentives for use of park camping sites, cabins, meeting rooms, marina slips and other facilities during off peak periods.; The contractor will be required, at a minimum, to provide the following to achieve the objective of this project by working with a Park and Recreation team through a highly collaborative process to achieve the following items.; Conduct a review and quantitative and qualitative analysis of three years data for all overnight rentals in the North Dakota State Park System; Include/consider all relevant logistical, financial, geographical, and cultural issues that may affect pricing models and business rules, including but not limited to: how long prior to a stay, reservations are made per facility (mean and % of reservations made at 0-7 days, 7-30 days, 30-60 days, 60 to 95 days and over 95 days), cancellations (% and mean time between cancellation and reservation/stay), length of stay - averages and ranges, utilization by day of the week (in aggregate, month by month, park by park), Availability rates, looking at amount of time accommodations are not available due to cleaning blocks; consider trends/statistical significance of visitors based on other logistical data (home state, size of camper, park frequented, etc.),; Data should be analyzed for our system as a whole and on a park-by-park basis.; Conduct a benchmarking study/analysis of similar park system pricing models, price points and business rules in “peer” state, local and private parks and campgrounds of a similar scale, with emphasis in the Midwest and Rocky Mountain regions. Additional areas of interest from examination of peer systems, would include their implementation experience (time etc.), public reception, approximate software costs and ongoing staff resource dedications required by their systems.; Provide a written report that includes an analysis of current operations, benchmarking (noted above), 3-5 potential courses of action (including pricing models and business rules) with a Strength, Weakness, Opportunities, and Threat analysis for each potential course of action, and a ranked recommendation of each of the potential courses of action. In anticipation of the 2023 Legislative Session, a preliminary draft report needs to be completed by the end of the first week of December 2022. Final report, with comments addressed, to be completed by end of January 2023.
