Indianapolis-Marion_County_Long-Range_Transportation_Plan_(Addendum_#2_Revision).pdf

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City of Indianapolis and Marion County

Request for Qualifications

INDIANAPOLIS-MARION COUNTY LONG-RANGE

TRANSPORTATION PLAN

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Title: Indianapolis-Marion County Long-Range Transportation Plan

Table Of Contents

1. General Information

2. Anticipated Scope of Work

3. Submission Requirements

4. Vendor Questionnaire

Attachments:

A - Sample Agreement

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1. General Information

1.1. Introduction

Questions pertaining to the Request for Qualifications content may be directed through the

Procurement Portal at https://procurement.opengov.com/portal/indy, no later than Thursday, September 3, 2026 by 12:00 pm Eastern Time.

NOTE: Any related addenda to this Request for Qualifications, including written answers to questions, will be posted on the Procurement Portal at https://procurement.opengov.com/portal/indy. Vendors will be responsible for periodically checking the Procurement Portal for any related addenda up to and including the due date.

Vendors must acknowledge addenda with their submittal. Failure to acknowledge the addenda may cause a submittal to be determined as non- responsive for review purposes.

1.2. Timeline

Estimated Release Date: August 14, 2026

Pre-Proposal Meeting (Non-Mandatory): August 27, 2026, 9:00am

200 East Washington Street, Indianapolis, IN 2nd Floor, Conference Room 260

Virtual Meeting Option:

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Question Submission Deadline: September 3, 2026, 12:00pm

Submittal Deadline: September 25, 2026, 12:00pm

1.3. Summary

Buyer Kyle Willis

Buyer

Phone

(317) 327-4641

The City of Indianapolis and Marion County by and through the Purchasing Division is seeking

Request for Qualifications for Indianapolis-Marion County Long-Range Transportation Plan.

Submittals are due not later than 12:00 pm on Friday, September 25, 2026.

1.4. Background

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2. Anticipated Scope of Work

2.1. Long-Range Transportation Plan

1. Why A New Transportation Plan?

The existing long-range transportation plan for Indianapolis-Marion County, Indy Moves, was adopted in 2018. Eight years later, the Department of Public Works and its partners delivered new trails, resurfaced and repaired the county’s most-travelled thoroughfares, converted multiple one-way high-speed thoroughfares into two-way community-oriented streets, installed road diets, constructed roundabouts, and facilitated expansion of IndyGo’s Bus Rapid Transit network and the Indianapolis Cultural Trail. While progress has been made to meet the goals of Indy Moves, DPW has had difficulty moving its priority projects through the department’s development cycle.

There are three key factors that negatively impacted the implementation of priority projects in Indy

Moves:

• Too Many Needs, Not Enough Funds: Between the size of DPW’s road network, the volume of its users, and historically inadequate state roadway funding formula, DPW works to address its maintenance backlog in a revenue-limited environment. Maintenance needs had to be prioritized to ensure Marion County’s roads and bridges could be safely travelled by its residents.

• Lack of a Fiscally-Constrained Capital Improvement Plan (CIP): While it identified key projects, Indy Moves did not identify a list of projects for capital improvement over the next ten years, their funding sources, or constraint within DPW’s projected available funds.

• Key Projects Were Not Competitive for Federal Transportation Funding: DPW relies heavily on federal funds from the Indianapolis MPO to complete capital projects. Over the past eight years, shifting emergent priorities and Priority Projects’ inability to score high for federal transportation match have made it difficult to move them forward.

In addition to these incompatibilities between plan and program, changes to Marion County’s transportation policy and infrastructure landscape necessitates a new analysis of existing conditions, needs assessment, and project prioritization. These include the construction and

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Vision Zero Strategic Plan, creation of the Indianapolis Asset Management Plan (IAMP), and rollout of the Community-Powered Infrastructure program. Additionally, a new Land Use Pattern

Book, Greenways For All Plan, and ADA Transition Plan are currently working through their final stages and will need to be incorporated into a new long-range transportation plan (LRTP).

Indianapolis DPW has also expanded their transportation planning capabilities. In addition to on-call consultants capable of providing corridor and intersection-level planning services, DPW has hired transportation planning staff to manage implementation of the new LRTP. This will be a change from the management of Indy Moves, which was primarily managed by a Transportation Planner in the

Department of Metropolitan Development (DMD). Embedding the new LRTP as a responsibility of DPW and treating it as a guide for its capital program is meant to increase the department’s ability to conduct transportation planning functions in a data-informed and resident-responsive manner.

A key goal of the new LRTP is to extend DPW’s Transportation Development timeline from five years to ten. This allows for proper planning, scoping, partner engagement, and planning-level cost estimation before a facility moves on to the design and construction phases. Currently, scoping is taking place during the design phase, which does not allow for adequate engagement, assessment, planning, and alternative evaluation across projects. Other components of the effort include a financially constrained CIP for projects to be constructed from

2032-2037 and a new thoroughfare plan that is responsive to land-use contexts around roadway facilities.

2. Plan Description and Goals

The 2028 Indianapolis-Marion County LRTP, titled Moving Indy Forward, is meant to be a plan that is consistently updated to incorporate periodic resident and representative engagement, changes in funding, infrastructure condition assessment, and other datapoints. The goals of Moving Indy

Forward include:

• Creating a living plan that is meant to be resilient, flexible, and responsive to change

• Assessing the existing transportation conditions and needs of DPW’s transportation network

• Creating a new Thoroughfare Plan utilizing a Context-Classification Process

• Assisting with identification of a Capital Improvement Program for 2027-37, based on a combination of prioritization output, engagement-informed strategies, existing infrastructure

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Indianapolis DPW, in partnership with DMD, will be the lead agency managing the project. While this project is being primarily led by DPW, it is critical that DMD be involved due to the close connection of land use and transportation. DMD will provide land use guidance, transportation-planning expertise, data gathering and analysis, and engagement staffing for Moving Indy Forward.

Project Team

DPW Project Manager Nick Badman, Senior Project Manager, DPW – Engineering

DMD Project Lead Logan Lane, Administrator, DMD – Long Range Planning

DPW Leadership Advisor Mark St. John, Chief Engineer, DPW – Engineering

Key Deliverables

• 2028 Long-Range Transportation Plan

• Identifies existing conditions and transportation network needs through data analysis and public engagement

• Informs the Thoroughfare Plan and 2027-2037 Capital Improvement Program

• Identify revenue sources and alternative project delivery methods

• Identifies 2038-2042 illustrative project list

• 2028 Thoroughfare Plan

• Establishes a new throughfare network identified through a context-classification analysis

• Analysis helps DPW scope transportation improvements based on their connectivity, speed, traffic, and adjacent land use

• 2028 – 2037 Capital Improvement Program and Illustrative Project List

• Identifies the next five years of projects already programmed in the CIP (2028-2032)

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• Identifies the next 6-10 construction years of Capital Projects that will go through planning and scoping (2033-2037)

Schedule

Procurement Schedule:

• A pre-bid meeting will be held on August 27th.

• Questions will be due by September 3rd.

• Responses from DPW are scheduled to be posted by August 31st.

• RFQ response submissions are due to the selection team by September 25th.

• Teams chosen for interviews will be notified by September 30th.

• The interview and selection process will take place from October 3rd to October 14th.

• A winning project team is to be selected and notified by October 30th.

• Work is scheduled to begin in January 2027.

Project Schedule:

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3. Anticipated Scope of Work

Task 1: Project Management

Subtask 1A: Project Coordination and Documentation

• Schedule and manage Kickoff and Coordination Meetings with City-County Project Managers

• Present findings and solicit guidance from the project Steering Committee; schedule and manage Steering Committee meetings.

• Creation and management of a Data Library, containing all digital project outputs.

Subtask 1B: Plan Document Creation

• Creation of a plan document template

• Creation of document content in the form of draft and final chapters

Subtask 1C: Online Tools

• LRTP Public Engagement ArcPortal Dashboard

• Project Prioritization and CIP Online Map

• Thoroughfare Plan and Context Classification Story Map

• LRTP Story Map

Task 2: Engagement

Subtask 2A: Online Survey

• The LRTP Online Survey will assess resident preferences for infrastructure investments and identify transportation issues in Marion County.

Subtask 2B: Intentional Engagement

• A significant concern with engagement efforts for Moving Indy Forward is the effect of “Plan

Fatigue” on the county’s residents and representatives. Recently completed and in-progress plans such as the Vision Zero Strategic Plan, IAMP, Greenways for All Plan, and Land Use

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Pattern Book updates have engaged many multiple times, often with overlapping subject matter and intent. To reduce the negative impacts of plan fatigue on Marion County residents, the project team will work to inventory relevant existing engagement data from recent efforts before soliciting input on transportation needs.

• To ensure the LRTP incorporates the needs and preferences of the public, the effort will require engagement of Marion County residents through a limited number of town halls or by partnering with pre-existing local events.

• In addition to engaging local residents at larger meetings and events, the selected team will engage key organizations in smaller focus groups, including:

• Non-governmental partners, such as community-based organizations, anchor institutions, economic development organizations, and advocacy organizations

• Internal City-County departments and emergency services

• Political representatives within Marion County, including City-County Councilors, Township

Trustees, and Excluded City Representatives

• Adjacent Local Planning Agencies and other Transportation Planning Partners, such as

INDOT, IndyGo, and the Indianapolis MPO

Task 3: DPW’s Network and Plan / Policy Review

Subtask 3A: DPW Transportation 101

• Define which transportation facilities, such as roads, trails, sidewalks, and signals, that DPW is responsible for maintaining and improving.

Subtask 3B: Work Completed Under Indy Moves

• Summarize improvements and investments that have been completed since 2018 and quantify key metrics, such as resurfaced road lane-miles, repaired / replaced bridges, new bikeways, and other facilities. This section will also summarize projects that are currently in development.

Subtask 3C: Plan and Policy Review

• Summarize impactful transportation projects and policies from:

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• Excluded Cities

• Adjacent Local Planning Agencies (Cities, Towns, and Counties)

• Regional Plans from the Indianapolis MPO

• State-Level Plans from relevant agencies within the Indiana state government

• Conduct review of unbuilt or unprogrammed projects from Indy Moves

Task 4: Existing Conditions

Subtask 4A: Resident and Representative Input

• Categorize and map data received from the engagement process and summarize engagement findings.

Subtask 4B: Housing and Land Use Impacts on Transportation

• Define the connection between land use and transportation.

• Assess organic development trends from planning and building permit data, identify Transit and Greenway-Oriented Development zones, intentional development sites (such as those held for redevelopment by the City-County government), and areas of recent and forecasted population growth within, and adjacent to, Marion County.

Subtask 4C: Health Justice Areas and Essential Destinations

• Identify Health Justice Areas (parts of the county where residents are less likely to operate, or have access to, a passenger vehicle), Essential Destinations, and a Safe Routes Network that identifies DPW roadways used to connect Health Justice populations with Essential

Destinations.

Subtask 4D: Context Classification Analysis

• Conduct and summarize the Context Classification Analysis that will align design standards for local streets, collectors, and arterials within land use typologies derived from DMD’s Land Use

Pattern Book update.

Subtask 4E: Safety and Vision Zero Priorities

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• Summarize safety work completed since 2018, integrate existing data and strategies from the

Indy Vision Zero Action Plan, and identify existing safety issues.

Subtask 4F: Surface Network Operations and Connectivity

• Identify programmed and planned expansions, road diets, and other operational improvements. Identify existing operational issues, barriers to the transportation network, and conditions assessment of existing signals and intersections.

Task 5: Transportation Needs

Subtask 5A: Maintenance

• Summarize the findings and goals of the IAMP, identify methods of implementing Vision Zero and Complete Streets through maintenance work with case studies and best practices, and assess unmet needs not outlined in the IAMP.

Subtask 5B: Alleyways

• Provide an overview of the location and conditions of Indy’s existing alleyway network, outline current methods for improving alleys, and highlight case studies and best practices for incorporating alleyway improvements when scoping transportation projects on parallel thoroughfares.

Subtask 5C: Roadway Operational Improvements and New Connections

• Identify areas in need of operational improvements, including two-way conversions, road diets, and congestion management, as well as areas with low connectivity that may benefit from new roads and bridges.

Subtask 5D: Sidewalks and Accessibility

• Assess barriers and safety risks to an accessible pedestrian network, including areas missing sidewalk, natural and human-made barriers, and fatal and incapacitating pedestrian crash areas.

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Subtask 5E: Bike Network

• Assess the existing bike network, incorporate proposed projects from the Greenways for All plan, update the Neighborways map, and assess Complete Streets conformance for all roadway segments under DPW’s purview.

Subtask 5F: Transit Planning

• Assess the current state of IndyGo’s transition to their frequent grid, CIRTA routes, and planned improvements. This information will be used to identify transit-oriented pedestrian and bike-rider needs, specifically around transit stop access and safety improvements. It will also be used to ensure adequate coordination and planning is taking place to accommodate transit service on DPW’s network.

Subtask 5G: Freight Planning

• Assess existing freight conditions, forecasted freight growth, strategies for safe freight accommodation and local delivery management, and other freight-supportive needs.

Subtask 5H: Transportation Safety Planning

• Identify transportation safety needs based on regional and local High Injury Networks, Vulnerable Road User data, and crash rate density.

Subtask 5I: Identified Needs Summary

• Consolidate identified needs across four broad domains that will be used to prioritize projects:

• Multimodal Needs

• Safety Needs

• Operational Needs

• Maintenance Needs

Task 6: Project Prioritization and Capital Improvement Program

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Subtask 6A: Funding and Financial Constraints

• Summarize existing funding sources for DPW, identify other capital funding options that are available, but not currently implemented, by the City-County. This subtask will also include a summary of alternative avenues for project development and funding sources (such as the Community-Powered Infrastructure program and INIP), and funding conformance for the

2032-2037 project timeframe.

Subtask 6B: Project Prioritization and Evaluation

• Conduct evaluation of prioritized projects based on needs analysis, best practices, financial constraints, and public input. This will include assessment of the existing Indy Moves project list and which projects should be carried into Moving Indy Forward’s project list.

• The project prioritization tool created for this effort will need to have the ability for DPW staff to update prioritization input data, scoring, and weighting, as well as calculation of new project prioritization lists, without the need for an outside vendor to complete tasks.

Task 7: 2027-2037 Capital Improvement Program

Subtask 7A: 2027-2037 CIP

• Display and summarize projects currently in design and construction for the next five years

(2027-2031)

• Priority Projects identified within the Prioritization and Evaluation process move forward for planning and scoping over the next five years, and to be constructed within the next five to ten years (2032-2037).

Task 8: 2028 Thoroughfare Plan

Subtask 8A: Thoroughfare Typologies

• Define and map the Thoroughfare Plan’s Thoroughfare Typologies, their traffic volumes, access density, and other factors.

Subtask 8B: Land Use Contexts

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• Define and map the Land Use Context designation. Land use contexts will align with those listed in the Greenways for All Plan, which uses a consolidated version of DMD’s updated

Land Use Pattern Book.

Subtask 8C: Context Classification Standards

• Define and map the Context Classification Network, which displays the thoroughfare type and land use context each facility on DPW’s transportation network. The selected team will also create a Context Classification Standards Table that will assist with informing planning-level scoping for various facility elements, such as number of travel lanes, preferred bikeway types, and spacing of traffic calming elements (curb bumpouts, controlled intersection, mid-block crossings, etc.).

Subtask 8D: Secondary Thoroughfare Enhancements

• Identify unique corridor types that should include enhancements for corridors with special uses, such as Greenway Corridors, Frequent Transit Corridors, Freight Corridors, and Safe

Routes Network.

Task 9: Executive Summary and Appendices

Subtask 9A: Executive Summary

• Draft an Executive Summary for Moving Indy Forward.

Subtask 9B: Appendices

• Create appendices specifically documenting engagement materials, summaries, methodologies and other sections as identified during the planning process (if needed).

3. Submission Requirements

All submittals must include the following:

3.1. Cover Letter

Organization name, contact name, address, phone number, and email address.

3.2. Qualifications Criteria

• General Information

Request For Qualification #RFQual-14DPW-2026-2 15 o Description of the organization & team.

o Organizational chart with names and titles.

o Special certificates and /or licenses.

• Team Experience and Qualifications o Detail each team member’s role on this project.

3.3. Relevant Organizational Experience

• Provide a description of the organization’s experience servicing Indianapolis-Marion County

Long-Range Transportation Plan.

• Document the organization’s capacity and intent to proceed without delay if selected for this work.

• Provide a detailed description of the Organization’s ability to implement the Anticipated Scope of Work.

• An outline of qualifications and experience in performing similar services for each service your firm wishes to provide. List any educational degrees, active licenses/certifications and relative work experience. NOTE: A statement of interest is not required for each service.

• Three (3) business references; preference will be given to references where similarly requested services were performed. Do not include references that are currently employed by

City. References should be formatted as follows:

o Name:

o Title:

o Address:

o Phone Number:

o Email Address:

o Brief description of the services performed:

• If applicable, please provide a list of lawsuits that your company has been a party to as related to the types of services provided in this RFQUAL. For each lawsuit, please provide a brief description of the facts at issue as well as the resulting outcome.

3.4. MBE/WBE/VBE/DOBE (“XBE”) participation form or waiver

It is the policy of the City that Minority Business Enterprises (MBEs), Women Business Enterprises

(WBEs), Veteran Business Enterprises (VBEs), and Disability-Owned Business Enterprises (DOBEs) shall have the maximum feasible opportunity to participate in the performance of contracts. Consequently, the City, through Article IV, Section 202-401 of the revised municipal code

& The Consolidated City of Indianapolis and Marion County MBE/WBE/VBE/DOBE Business

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Utilization Plan in Indianapolis, has established MBE participation goals of 15%, WBE participation goals of 8%, VBE participation goals of 3%, and DOBE participation goals of 1% for its dollars spent on public works, goods, and services.

In order to help accomplish this goal, the City is requesting that you include with your submittal information regarding your status as an MBE, WBE, VBE, or DOBE. Additionally, please include contact information for any MBE, WBE, VBE, or DOBE owned Vendors directly participating in your business operations. The City also requests contact information for any MBE, WBE, VBE, or DOBE sub-contractors that you might use in the course of doing business with the City. Some examples of this kind of service include, but are not limited to: office suppliers, courier services, shipping services, etc. These services can occur at the local, state, or national level. Please include an estimated percentage or dollar amount that you anticipate using.

Be advised that the information provided on MBE/WBE/VBE/DOBE participation will be included as part of the scoring criteria for this RFQUAL. Accordingly, it is imperative that you do everything possible to obtain the information above and supply it as part of the submittal.

In order to be recognized by the City of Indianapolis/Marion County as an MBE/WBE/VBE/DOBE participant, your company must be certified with the Office of Minority &Women Business

Development (OMWBD). The City will recognize only City of Indianapolis certified firms regardless of any other state or national affiliation.

If you should need assistance in obtaining information or certification for possible participation in a contract, please contact the OMWBD on the Internet at www.indy.gov/omwbd or by phone at (317)

327-5262.

Respondents can view a list of City OMWBD approved MBE/WBE/VBE/DOBE vendors by going to this web page: https://www.indy.gov/activity/find-omwbd-contractor and selecting the appropriate monthly “Vendor Listing” spreadsheet.

3.5. Compensation / Cost

Since this is a Request for Qualifications only, any Vendor submission of compensation / costs will cause your submittal to be rejected. After the City selects a short list of candidates, negotiations will begin with each Vendor and the City will encourage, only at that time, innovative responses regarding compensation / costs for representing the City in providing consulting services.

3.6. Submission Instructions

Submissions must be received before 12:00 pm Eastern Time on Friday, September 25, 2026.

Late submissions will not be accepted or considered.

Please send your submission via the Procurement Portal.

Submissions must be signed by a representative of the respondent organization authorized to submit and establish fees on behalf of the respondent organization and bind the respondent organization to the terms and conditions of this RFQUAL.

4. Vendor Questionnaire

1. Exception Sheet* http://www.indy.gov/omwbd https://www.indy.gov/activity/find-omwbd-contractor

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Please download the below documents, complete, and upload.

• Exception_Sheet.pdf

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