RFP: Comprehensive Impact Fee & Development Fee Update

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Note: This RFP was updated on Dec, 5, 2024. 

Overview

The goal of the City’s impact fee program is to create mechanisms to charge and collect fees to ensure that development bears its proportionate share of the capital facility and improvement costs necessitated by development. The City of Sammamish (“City”) is requesting proposals from qualified firms to perform a comprehensive impact fee and development fee update including analysis, review, and recommendation based upon the preliminary scope of services contained in this Request for Proposal (“RFP”). This project also includes the development of an indirect cost allocation model, which will help inform the development fee update.

The intent is to select one firm to perform the tasks associated with this RFP, but a firm may propose a team approach for completing the comprehensive impact fee update with one firm being named the primary consultant responsible for contracting and overall scope performance. The City reserves the right to award the individual impact fee updates (i.e., transportation, parks) to one or more firms depending on the expertise demonstrated and capacity of proposals. The City highly encourages women and minority owned firms to submit proposals in response to this RFP.

The deadline to submit proposals is December 17, 2024, at 2:00 PM PT. Proposals received by the City after the deadline will not be considered.

Question & Answers

Question 1

Page 3. Please clarify the page limit. There is reference to a 12-page limit and then subsequently a 20-page limit. Also please confirm that the covers and resumes are not included in the page limit either way. We are interpreting “in addition to”, to mean that covers are resumes extend beyond the limit.

Answer 1

The limit is 12 pages. The covers and resumes are not included in the page limit. The RFP has been updated. 

Question 2

When was the most recent cost allocation plan prepared?

Answer 2

The City has an indirect cost allocation model that is specific to development fees that was done a couple years ago. We do not have a comprehensive cost allocation model for the whole city. This project will be for the ground-up development of a citywide cost allocation model.