Specifications include, but are not limited to: The primary objectives of this RFP shall be to provide data necessary for the evaluation of competitive proposals that will result in an Agreement with the City and a proposer that meets our requirement(s). The City of Sparks desires a qualified community engagement and survey consultant with experience designing, conducting, and analyzing community surveys for local government entities. In order to ensure that the community survey is inclusive in both content and respondents, assistance from a qualified vendor is needed to develop the survey content, conduct community outreach to obtain survey responses from a representative sample of the City of Sparks population, and analyze survey results. ● Develop and distribute a community survey in a way that is inclusive of various parts of the City of Sparks community, including but not limited to people with differing mental and physical abilities and representing varied ethnic, linguistic, cultural, and socioeconomic groups. ● The survey should seek information on residents’ priorities, challenges, civic participation, expectations, demographics, and any other categories that the vendor deems essential to the project. ● Taking into account the suggestions in Attachment A, the qualified vendor will develop and finalize survey questions, implement a strategy to ensure that the survey reaches all parts of the City of Sparks community including those that are generally not engaged with local government, distribute the survey and collect survey responses, and provide City leadership with an analysis of survey results to guide future decisions. ● Reaching a representative sample of the community is essential to the success of this project; the qualified vendor will propose strategies to engage varied parts of the City of Sparks population. ● The qualified vendor is expected to provide regular updates to City leadership staff in various formats, including but not limited to informal emails, written memoranda, telephone calls, and virtual and/or in-person meetings. The qualified vendor should also be prepared to give one (1) in-person presentation to the Sparks City Council and one (1) in-person presentation to the Sparks Equity and Inclusion Advisory Board regarding survey results.