MRB-55888 - USA (Illinois) - Strategic Planning Services - Deadline August 31,2026

(1) Vendor needs to provide strategic planning services.– Strategic planning services, including review, alignment, and prioritization of existing plans, policies, and initiatives, visioning framework, stakeholder engagement, a five–year strategic plan, development of an implementation framework, monitoring and evaluation framework, and recommendations– Provide guidance on implementing the plan, integration with budgeting and resources, develop a process for monitoring and evaluation and approaches for maintaining and updating the plan in–house over time.– Provide analysis of the relationships between priorities and actions articulated in the various plans– Conduct a stakeholder analysis of the agency including both internal and external stakeholders– Design and implement a comprehensive engagement strategy that clearly identifies stakeholder groups, engagement methods, anticipated number of activities (e.g. meetings, focus groups…etc.), whether activities are internally or externally focused and what level of engagement for each stakeholder group.– Engage the board of commissioners, and the conservation & policy council where appropriate to gather policy, governance, and other perspectives that inform development of the strategic plan– External engagement with external partners, volunteers, community members, and the public– Facilitate review and refinement of the agency current vision, values and organizational goals (i.e., Next Century Conservation Plan) based on assessments and engagement findings.– Develop a draft five–year strategic plan based on the vision, mission, values, and goals framework.– Conduct feasibility or other studies, as appropriate, to identify attainable goals related to the agency strategic position.– Develop a practical, action–oriented approach for implementing the strategic plan.– Provide recommendations for aligning strategic goals and initiatives with budgeting, resources, and internal processes to support prioritized sequence of work– Develop a process to monitor, evaluate, and learn from progress toward the strategic plan’s objectives and goals, based on key indicators(2) A pre–proposal bid meeting will be held on July 20, 2026.(3) All questions must be submitted no later than July 24, 2026.(4) The contract period will be for two years.