On-Call Communications and Business Consulting Services

General work description: The City periodically relies on consultants to provide various professional services when workload has exceeded City staff capacity or when specialized expertise is required for a particular project. In the past, the City has, on an individual project basis, sought and processed Requests For Proposals and Requests for Qualifications to support various projects. Establishing professional services on-call lists reduce staff time and expedites project delivery by avoiding repeated solicitations of qualifications and review of proposals. Cost savings are realized from benefits associated with economies of scale and significant time savings. The City Manager’s Office (CMO) requests proposals from qualified firms to provide on-call professional services in two subject categories, Communication and Business Analytics. Firms may respond to one or both categories. The City assumes that proposers may have varying levels of expertise across the category types. As a result, the City may contract with multiple proposers in each category to provide services on an as-needed basis. Selected proposers will be pre-qualified to provide a quote once a specific project has been identified. The services and general needs are more fully described in Preliminary Scope of Services.