Fee_Proposal_GHG_Inventories.docx

Exhibit C - Pricing

Please provide pricing for the following sample task:

Community and government operations greenhouse gas inventories for San Mateo County jurisdictions.

Goal:

Prepare 21 community greenhouse gas emissions inventories (20 incorporated cities and the unincorporated areas) and 21 government operations greenhouse gas emissions inventories (20 incorporated cities and the County of San Mateo) for the year 2026 using a consistent methodology, coordinated data collection, quality assurance, and final deliverables suitable for County and jurisdiction use in climate action plan progress reporting and implementation.

Pricing assumptions:

· The County will provide existing methodology documents, prior inventory files if available, and one introductory communication to jurisdictions.

· The Consultant(s) will update the methodology for transportation emissions to use higher-resolution transportation or VMT emissions data approaches (i.e. aggregated and anonymized GPS/mobile device, real-time transportation data with associated backcasting through previous inventories);

· The Consultant(s) will coordinate with County staff and jurisdiction staff to request, collect, validate, and organize required data.

· The Consultant(s) will prepare one community inventory and one operations inventory for each of the 21 jurisdictions (20 incorporated cities/towns and San Mateo County).

· Operational inventories will fall into one of three tiers based on the operational size of the jurisdiction: six small (i.e. Atherton, Brisbane, Colma, Hillsborough, Portola Valley, Woodside), 10 medium (i.e. Belmont, Burlingame, Foster City, Half Moon Bay, Menlo Park, Millbrae, Pacifica, San Bruno, San Carlos, East Palo Alto) and five large (i.e. County of San Mateo, Daly City, Redwood City, San Mateo, South San Francisco).

· The Consultant(s) will provide a comprehensive countywide data workbook and prepare one countywide summary memorandum describing methodology, key assumptions, and major findings.

· The Consultant(s) will provide one draft review round and one final delivery round.

· The Consultant(s) will provide one kickoff meeting, four progress meetings, and one final meeting with County staff, all virtual.

· The Consultant will meet with jurisdiction staff from up to 10 cities for up to one hour, all virtual.

· No travel, translation, printing, dashboard development, or Board or Council presentations should be included.

Please fill in the hourly rate schedule and table of pricing by task. Please indicate in the pricing by task table what staff title(s) will be working on the task, the hours each staff title will bill to the task, the hourly rate, and the total budget per task. Upload the pricing document as a PDF into OpenGov.

The County reserves the right to accept other than the lowest priced offer and to reject any proposals that are not responsive to this request.

Hourly Rate Schedule Beginning July 1, 2027, the hourly billing rates may increase every year with prior written approval from the County, on the first of July, if the organization is formally changing its billing rates. Please submit fully loaded billing rates.

Pricing by Task Please assume that all the tasks listed in the table are required to support this sample project. Respondents may add rows within a task if needed to reflect staffing by labor category.

Task A: Project management and County coordination

Task A Subtotal:

Task B: Data collection, data requests, and validation

Task B Subtotal:

Task C: Community greenhouse gas inventory development for one jurisdiction and total for 21 jurisdictions

Task C Subtotals:

Task D: Small government operations greenhouse gas inventory development for one small jurisdiction and six total.

Task D Subtotal:

Task E: Medium government operations greenhouse gas inventory development for one small jurisdiction and 10 total.

Task E Subtotal:

Task F: Large government operations greenhouse gas inventory development for one small jurisdiction and five total.

Task F Subtotal:

Task G: Quality assurance, comprehensive data workbook, summary memorandum, meetings with jurisdictions and final delivery

Task G Subtotal:

TOTAL COST OF PROJECT