MRB-56884 - USA (Minnesota) - Public Engagement Services - Deadline October 16,2026

(1) Vendor needs to provide public engagement services. – Provide design, facilitate, and evaluate meaningful, inclusive, creative, and community–centered public engagement for the 2050 Comprehensive Plan update.– Outreach, Communications, Equity, and Accessibility:• Prepare content for city websites, online engagement platforms, social media, email, newsletters, flyers, posters, and other appropriate channels.• Recommend language–access strategies, including translation and interpretation as appropriate.• Develop strategies to reach residents who do not regularly interact with city government and cultivate relationships with trusted community organizations, institutions, businesses, and other partners.– Engagement Strategy and Project Coordination:• Develop a public engagement strategy and work plan identifying audiences, objectives, methods, timing, responsibilities, outcomes, outreach, equity, accessibility strategies, coordination opportunities, evaluation measures, and anticipated hours/costs.– Community Vision Engagement:• Design and facilitate additional community visioning activities particularly using nontraditional methods.– Draft Plan Review and Adoption Engagement:• Develop an accessible approach for communicating the draft plan and identifying key questions and decision points.• Conduct public meetings, open houses, pop–ups, online engagement, surveys, or other methods identified in the approved strategy.– Policy and Priority Engagement:• Develop engagement methods appropriate to policy questions and decision points.(2) All the questions must be submitted no later than September 18, 2026.