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WARD: Citywide
COMMITTEE: Visioning
$ IMPACT: $140,000 ($130,000 +$10,000 contingency)
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Approval to enter into a contract with Market Street Services, Inc. for Visioning Initiative in the amount of $130,000 with a $10,000 contingency for a total budget request of $140,000 and authorize Mayor to execute all related documents.
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ISSUE: Approval of Mayor and Council to execute contract with Market Street Services, Inc. for Visioning Initiative. The contract amount is $130,000 with a $10,000 contingency for a total budget request of $140,000.
BACKGROUND: The Mayor and Council have indicated need to engage in an initiative to formulate a long term, holistic vision for the City of Smyrna. In order to accomplish this a budget has been established to hire a consultant to assist the city in engaging the public and facilitating a process that addresses the various opportunities, challenges and issues that will face the City of Smyrna over the next decade. The final product will be a document that identifies these challenges and opportunities and spells out a realistic and fiscally responsible strategy for addressing theses opportunities, challenges and issues. This final product will be a document that will be utilized to inform the employees, the elected and the appointed officials of the City of Smyrna regarding their actions and decisions related to a wide range of issues that are under the purview and responsibility of the City of Smyrna.
The City of Smyrna Purchasing Department went through a Request for Qualifications process to solicit qualified firms to submit their professional qualifications to the Visioning Committee of the Mayor and Council.
Seven firms submitted their professional qualifications; three firms were shortlisted and invited to make verbal presentations to the Visioning Committee. Those three finalists were then requested to submit a price for services. Two firms submitted.
Market Street Services, Inc. was select...
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