City of Cedar Falls

The buyer seeks a consultant team to develop a comprehensive Strategic Plan for 2025-2030. The plan will identify community goals, provide recommendations, and include measurable benchmarks. The buyer desires a broad community engagement campaign and a visionary, action-oriented plan. The process will incorporate the city's annual goal setting and integrate with fiscal year 2026 planning.

• 7/31/2024 - RFP Issued
• 8/22/2024 - Proposal Due Date
• 9/9/2024 - Interviews Scheduled
• 9/16/2024 - Interviews Held
• 9/23/2024 - Consultant Selected
• 10/21/2024 - Contract Approval by City Council

• Conduct stakeholder meetings to understand existing plans and policies
• Design and implement broad community engagement campaign
• Identify community goals and key topics
• Analyze economic development potential and ways to diversify local economy
• Evaluate existing and future public facilities and services
• Develop implementation schedule with project milestones
• Create visionary and graphically engaging Strategic Plan document
• Provide table of recommendations with short and long-term horizons
• Identify metrics and key performance indicators for each priority area
• Attend public meetings to support adoption of the Strategic Plan