Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Rhode Island Department of Administration/Division of Purchases, on behalf of the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) is soliciting proposals from qualified Consultant firms to provide “on-call/as needed” planning services related to capital programming for the State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP), overall project readiness and pre-scoping of capital projects to generally determine the cost and scheduling. These tasks include but may not be limited to assessment of road and bridge projects, bicycle network projects, and grouping of logically similar projects. Other tasks include data collection and analysis; processing of adjustments and amendments to the STIP with additional analysis as needed; and, coordination with state and local agencies on capital plans and programs. The selected Consultant(s) may also be required to provide support for competitive planning and potential capital programming grant applications, benefit cost analysis and related efforts as necessary.