Green Works Plan Updates and Future-Ready Master Plan Maintenance

Description

The City of Orlando (City) requests proposals (“Proposals”) from interested and qualified Proposers ("Consultant", after award) with the objective of entering into a contract to update various existing sustainability and future-ready (Smart City) plans, and to provide ongoing owner’s representation support for sustainability, resilience, and future-ready city initiatives.  The initial task order being to update the City’s two overall sustainability (Green Works) plans:  the Community Action Plan, and the Municipal Sustainability Plan.  This includes performing stakeholder engagement with internal City staff and external partners, and updating the goals and strategies as necessary.  Strategies may include project areas, timelines and potential business models.  At the end of the exercise, the City may use the results to inform its decisions on revisions or amendments to City Policies, Operations Plans, the Land Development Code, and to its Capital Improvements Program.The City intends to ensure that these strategies will be continually updated, to ensure consistency with the direction of the City’s stakeholders and executive leadership. An eventual goal of the City’s is to work with other jurisdictions within Central Florida, to encourage and collaborate on complementary programs, and to share successful business cases, for the public and private sectors, on the benefits of sustainable and future-ready approaches to development, operations, and maintenance of all aspects of life in Central Florida. This solicitation was created as a potential benefit for several City departments and collaborating agencies, such as the Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC) and LYNX (the Central Florida Regional Transportation Authority d/b/a Lynx) in order to collectively move forward with a plan that will produce a positive economic, environmental, and social impact for Orlando.The City also anticipates that t