Summit County Government (“County”) is soliciting bids from qualified contractors to conduct a comprehensive wildfire emergency evacuation assessment for Summit County, Colorado. As a key initiative in our commitment to enhancing community safety and disaster preparedness, we seek to engage an experienced contractor to evaluate and improve our existing evacuation plans and procedures in response to the increasing threat of wildfires in the region. The objective of this project is to assess the current wildfire emergency evacuation plans and procedures for Summit County, Colorado, and develop actionable recommendations to enhance effectiveness, efficiency, and safety. The assessment should consider various factors, including but not limited to: • Identification of high-risk areas susceptible to wildfires through computer modeling of multiple scenarios. • Evaluation of existing evacuation routes, infrastructure, plans and resources. • Conduct a comprehensive roadway capacity analysis to evaluate the countywide roadway network to include, but not be limited to: o Evacuation time estimates for a multitude of evacuation scenarios to include individual municipality evacuations, simultaneous evacuation of multiple geographic areas and countywide evacuations. o Identification of pinch points that will slow down egress and recommendations to improve efficiency. o Identification and recommendations for operational strategies such as alternate traffic patterns to include contraflow and emergency vehicle ingress. • Identification and recommendations for roadway infrastructure upgrades to enhance evacuation times and efficiency. • Identification and recommendations for evacuation risk mitigation strategies, such as vegetation management. • Identification and recommendations for strategies to manage traffic congestion during extended closures of Interstate 70 and other routes of egress