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Item No: 3 Meeting Date: December 4, 2000 Type of Business: WS WK: Work Session; PH: Public Hearing; CA: Consent Agenda; CB: Council Business City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor & City Council From: James Ericson, Community Development Director Item Title/Subject: Discussion Regarding the Highway 10 Design Consultant RFP Date of Report: November 30, 2000 Background: Based on meetings with City staff, the Highway 10 Steering Committee and representatives of the business community, Springsted has prepared a draft Request For Proposals (RFP) for a design consultant to develop and recommend a Highway 10 reconstruction and revitalization plan. The RFP is identified as one of the short-term administrative actions to support the approved Highway 10 Action Plan. Discussion: The attached draft RFP, which received a very thorough review from the Highway 10 Steering Committee, is being presented to the Council for its consideration to ensure that the document adequately represents the intent and desire of the Council in its mission to address and respond to pedestrian and vehicle safety concerns within the Highway 10 corridor and to examine and evaluate opportunities to change the appearance of the corridor from a freeway to a community boulevard. The RFP begins by providing an overview of Mounds View and the defining events that have resulted in the desire for contracting with a design consultant. Eight detailed tasks are identified in the Scope of Services section of the RFP to which the qualified design consultant will need to respond. (Desired qualifications are identified in Section III.) The RFP instructs the respondents as to the structure and order of the responses to facilitate ease of review and comparison of the submitted proposals. Section V identifies the terms and conditions of the proposal and selected consultant. The proposals will be evaluated according to a clearly defined set of criteria, which are listed in Section VII. Last, the RFP establishes a timeline for the processing of the proposals, selection of the consultant and commencement of the project. Representatives from Springsted will be on hand to discuss the draft RFP and to respond to any questions the Council may have. The final draft of the RFP will be presented to the City Council for its approval on December 11, 2000, after which point the RFP would be distributed and made available to design consultants. Recommendation: Please review the attached draft RFP and provide any input to staff and Springsted regarding its construction. _____________________________________ James Ericson, Community Development Director