REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ)

FOR

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

ESRI ARCGIS URBAN

SCENARIO PLANNING CREATION OF

DIGITAL DESIGN OF MODELS

FOR THE

TOWN OF ITHACA

PLANNING DEPARTMENT

LOCATED AT

215 N TIOGA STREET, ITHACA, NY 14850

TOMPKINS COUNTY, NY

ISSUED: 6/29/2026

DEADLINE: 7/30/2026 at 4 pm ET

PREPARED BY:

PLANNING DEPARTMENT

215 NORTH TIOGA STREET

ITHACA, NY 14850

Contents A. Introduction

B. Purpose

C. Collaborators

D. Process Overview

E. Scope of Services

F. Anticipated Scope of Work

G. Consultant Selection

H. Submission Requirements

J. Submission Deadline

Appendices:

Exhibit A – Town of Ithaca Future Land Use Map

A. Introduction

Located in the southern part of the Town of Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, the South Hill

Traditional Neighborhood Development (TND) envisions a walkable community comprised of diverse housing types. This includes single-family dwellings, duplexes, townhomes, apartments, and mixed-use developments connected to recreational areas and commercial amenities, all in one cohesive neighborhood unit. Developed using the New Neighborhood Code (NNC) — the enabling zoning adopted by the Town

Board in 2020 — this project completed an important next step in the process for bringing the community’s vision to life. The NNC offers an alternative to the Town’s current conventional development regulations, with tools that are suited to building new complete neighborhoods; the NNC is located on the Town’s website here: https://townithacany.gov/new-neighborhood-code/.

As the Town grows, the 2014 Comprehensive Plan sets priorities for ensuring implementation of Smart

Growth principles. Because the Town prioritizes and highly values protection of farmland and open space while also ensuring the quality and livability of the Town’s business and residential neighborhoods, the

Town’s Future Land Use Map identified areas within the municipality where development intensity and housing density take the form of a TND. The TND is a form of development that is focused on Smart

Growth principles, including walkability, a wide cross-section of uses, densities, and building types in new neighborhoods, various housing prices, and connectivity to existing infrastructure, including transportation networks and utility services. These areas also have large unsubdivided parcels of land that make land acquisition, planning, and development of a cohesive mixed-use neighborhood much more feasible than in other parts of the Town where the land ownership pattern is more fragmented.

In coordination with Brown & Associates, on October 25, 26, and 27, 2021, the Town of Ithaca held a virtual charrette exploring the capabilities of one specific TND area, known as the South Hill TND. This project, located at the intersection of Danby Road (New York State Route 96-B) and King Road East

(County Road 179), utilized the process and development guidelines outlined in the NNC to develop a regulating plan that guides the built environment on a ±167-acre area just south of Ithaca College. At the conclusion of the charrette on October 27, Brown & Associates premiered a preliminary conceptual plan, which is located on the Town’s website here: https://townithacany.gov/south-hill-tnd/.

The Town of Ithaca, in collaboration with internal Departments, intends to engage consultants with geospatial design and development understanding to provide scenario planning and fiscal analysis for the

South Hill TND, TND Medium Density, and TND High Density areas shared on the Town’s Future Land

Use Map, in accordance with the NNC and existing municipal zoning requirements.

The goal of this project includes implementation of existing regulating plan concepts from the South Hill

TND project, scenario planning for neighborhoods units in the TND areas in accordance with the NNC, and visualization of impacts to development based on underlying zoning conditions. Along with accompanying metrics analyzing fiscal, land use, housing, infrastructure, and environmental impacts in an ArcGIS Urban digital environment.

https://townithacany.gov/new-neighborhood-code/ https://townithacany.gov/south-hill-tnd/

B. Purpose

This project as outlined in this Request for Qualification (RFQ) is to create a digitized scenario planning model; the project is funded by the New York State Homes and Community Renewal Technical Assistance to Grow Pro-Housing Communities Grant.

The purpose of this RFQ is to solicit qualified vendors (hereinafter called “Consultants”) to assist with the implementation of Esri ArcGIS Urban for detailed scenario planning analysis of the South Hill TND, TND Medium Density areas, and TND High Density areas located on the Town of Ithaca’s (Town) Future

Land Use Map. The Town is seeking a vendor to provide comprehensive services to apply its existing

GIS environment that currently uses ArcGIS Pro, Utility Network, and Cartegraph and integrate them into ArcGIS Urban. This effort should create ArcGIS Urban methodology for site capacity and cost to serve analysis, specifically to help determine the most productive development scenarios, maximizing the value per acre and minimizing the public costs per acre over the long-term, and ultimately evaluating development based on realistic absorption forecasts.

This project proposes building robust models within the ArcGIS framework allowing for modulation in assumptions of land uses, densities, and population in these development focus areas. Land use assumptions will assist the Town in determining the need and timing of capital improvements to serve future planned development. While this tool is anticipated mainly for internal use for large-scale development projects, the Town envisions a public facing interactive experience where community members — ranging from residents to real estate investors and developers — can locate an area of interest to learn of development impacts during the initial phase of a project’s lifecycle.

The ArcGIS Urban methodologies developed by the consultant should be able to perform site capacity and fiscal analysis for development scenarios and regulating plans located in TND developments. This in turn will be able to provide the basis for calculating development costs and expectations for projects within the municipality. This tool will guide municipal officials and the development community by establishing clear expectations associated with development costs, including costs per unit and square foot for the following: water (residential and non-residential), sewer, roads, recreation, park land, fire protection, transportation, and Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS) preparation for development proposals within a TND area.

This RFQ also seeks qualified vendors to provide clear and concise documentation and training for Town

Staff. The finished analysis methodologies, intended to be user-friendly and accessible to Town staff, will require hands-on training upon completion.

C. Collaborators

The Town of Ithaca (Planning and Engineering Departments), in collaboration with Esri Professional

Services, intends to establish foundational data for implementation in a robust ArcGIS Urban development impact analysis model. Esri Professional Services will lead platform configuration.

Stakeholders also include, but are not limited to Town of Ithaca Public Works Department, Town of

Ithaca Finance Officers, Ithaca Fire Department, Tompkins County Department of Planning and

Sustainability, Southern Cayuga Lake Intermunicipal Water Commission (Bolton Point), Tompkins

County Highway Department, New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT), New York

State Electric & Gas (NYSEG) utility, and the Ithaca-Tompkins County Transportation Council (ITCTC), which is the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for Tompkins County.

D. Process Overview

The primary objective of the project will be to prepare scenario planning models used for analysis of development proposals and long-term capital improvement planning for the South Hill TND and TND

Areas, as identified on the Town of Ithaca Future Land Use Map (Exhibit A).

E. Scope of Services

The Town is seeking qualifications from firms that have demonstrated expertise providing geospatial analysis, economic development analysis, land value economics, and/or revenue modeling, suitability analysis, or identifying spatial patterns supporting data-driven planning decisions in one or more of the following areas:

• Data Collection and Analysis

• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

• Fiscal Analysis of Development

• Scenario Planning

• Master Planning

• Digital Twins

• Transect-based Development

• Environmental Assessments

F. Anticipated Scope of Work

1. Utilize data prepared by the Town and Esri Professional Services, including data outlining the

Town Zoning Code, the New Neighborhood Code (NNC), parcels, street centerlines, development costs (sewer, water, road construction cost per mile, and the like), and land use to conduct cost of service analysis, revenue modeling, and scenario planning for development in

TND areas.

2. Establish templates for analyzing fiscal, housing, infrastructure, and related development impacts for TND areas.

3. Support existing integrations with critical operational and enterprise systems, including

Cartegraph (now OpenGov) Asset Management and the Esri-suite (ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS

Utility Network).

4. Align ArcGIS Urban workflows with Esri best practices and future-ready GIS architecture.

5. Digitize road profiles from the Town of Ithaca’s forthcoming Site Design and Development

Criteria Manual.

6. Incorporate existing infrastructure capacity and utility network data into ArcGIS Urban analysis to estimate impacts and associated costs to serve development projects.

7. Establish fiscal analysis review principles methodology to incorporate them as future metrics in ArcGIS Urban, including parameters that detail revenue impacts of proposed new developments and revenue impacts resulting from public infrastructure investment.

8. Incorporate accessible design practices in all models.

9. Provide effective knowledge transfer materials to Town Staff for successful operation and maintenance of project data.

Qualifications should be submitted to the Town of Ithaca Planning Department (submission details identified at end of RFQ).

G. Consultant Selection

The Consultant(s) selected through this Request for Qualifications process will finalize a scope of work and total fee for professional services once a Consultant(s) is selected. The Consultant(s) shall carry out the scope of services identified in the Notice to Proceed. Answers to technical questions may be deferred to the Scope and Contract Negotiation phase of the selection schedule.

It is anticipated that the consultant selection will be based on the following schedule:

Consultant Selection Schedule

Advertise Request for Qualifications (RFQ) June 29, 2026

Deadline for Questions July 10, 2026

Addenda published (if needed) July 17, 2026

Response Due July 30, 2026 by 4 p.m. ET

Presentations (as requested) August 11, 2026 at 1 p.m. ET

Notice of Preliminary Selection August 25, 2026

Scope and Contract Negotiation Summer 2026

Project Initiation Meeting Fall 2026

H. Submission Requirements

Responses to this RFQ should include the following:

1. Lead Consultant Information. For the lead consulting firm, provide the following information:

a. Firm name

b. Mailing address

c. Website

d. Contact name, email, telephone number

e. Form of Organization (partnership, corporation, sole proprietorship, etc.)

f. Where Organized

g. Names of principals, officers, and directors

h. Confirmation of Access to Professional Plus User Type License

2. Sub-consultants. For each member of the consultant team, provide the following:

a. Firm name

b. Mailing address

c. Contact name, email, telephone number

d. Website

3. Personnel and respective Fee Structure. For personnel involved in the project, please provide names, titles, period of service with the firm, a resume or description of experience, and an all-inclusive flat hourly rate for the actions in the project scope.

4. Statement of Qualifications. Provide a narrative description (up to ten pages) of the qualifications of the consulting firm, or consulting team, for the proposed project.

5. Statement of Availability. Provide a brief statement on the availability of key personnel to undertake the project.

6. List of Relevant Projects. Provide a list, with brief project descriptions, of no fewer than three and up to five projects of similar nature to the type of work proposed that have been successfully completed within the last five years by the consulting firm, consulting team, or key personnel.

Indicate which projects were within New York State. Provide descriptions of the fiscal, spatial, infrastructure, housing, components of past projects, as well as the analytical tools and processes employed. Include specific examples of how Esri applications (ArcGIS Urban, ArcGIS City

Engine, ArcGIS Pro, etc.), GeoDesign frameworks, and GeoAI were used to achieve project goals.

Discuss the proposed planning, organization, and management tools to be used to control schedule and costs.

7. References. Provide names, telephone numbers, and emails of people to be contacted for references regarding past performance of the consulting firm, consulting team, or key personnel on each of the 3-5 similar projects cited in paragraph 6 above.

8. Equal Employment Opportunity. Provide a description of efforts to solicit collaboration with Minority/Women-Owned Business Enterprise (M/WBE) and NYS-Certified Service-

Disabled Veteran-Owned Businesses (SDVOBs) in accordance with the New York State

Department of Empowerment, Compliance and Opportunity (DECO).

Consultant selection will be based on a rating of Consultant qualifications. The criteria will be as follows:

Firm Qualifications (10% of total score), Technical Qualifications (40% of total score), and Team

Qualifications (50% of total score).

The Qualification response (with transmittal letter) shall address the following at a minimum:

Firm Qualifications (10% of total score)

Firm Identification & Qualifications: A description of the firm, including the number of employees and their disciplines, location, and number of years the firm has been in the business of conducting the described services.

Technical Qualifications (40% of total score)

Understanding and Approach for Professional Services: The Consultant must demonstrate that they have the capability and resources.

Technical Experience, Recent Clients, & Relevant Projects: Demonstrate specific qualifications and areas of expertise with brief examples of projects or work related to the anticipated tasks listed herein. Include a summary list of relevant projects including client name and contact information, specific dates when the work was performed, and type of work services performed. Provide the name of the client and approximate dates the work was performed at a minimum.

Technical Understanding: Provide a summary to demonstrate an understanding of the scope of services for the completion of the tasks identified in this RFQ including, but not limited to, the following:

• Demonstrates understanding of the GIS, fiscal, and planning services requested by the Town;

• Demonstrates understanding of administering projects on budget and on schedule;

• Demonstrates understanding of implementing projects of varied scope with subconsultants;

• Demonstrates internal redundancy and ability to administer projects on time.

Team Qualifications (50% of total score)

Team Organization: Present a detailed organizational chart of the Respondent’s internal team showing the names and roles of all key personnel. This section should showcase, as applicable, team members’ experience and demonstrate capabilities relevant to their proposed area of expertise.

Team Summary: Any other factors that would be helpful to the Selection Committee in evaluating the

Consultant based on the types of services and requirements described in this RFQ.

Team Resumes: Include for all key team members that are proposed to provide professional services, including a list of their specific relevant projects. Include summaries of the work specifically performed by each team member. For any projects included in this section, provide the name of the client and approximate dates the work was performed at a minimum.

Collaboration with M/WBE & SDVOBs Summary: Provide a summary to demonstrate how the firm plans support opportunities for meaningful collaboration with M/WBE & SDVOBs through good-faith outreach efforts to solicit their participation in this project. For this section, provide utilization plans and previous examples of outreach strategies.

By submitting Qualifications, the Consultant certifies that it is not currently debarred from submitting bids for contracts issued by any political subdivision or agency of the State of New York and that it is not an agent of a person or entity that is currently debarred from submitting bids or contracts issued by any political subdivision or agency of the State of New York.

Conflict of Interest

The Consultant shall prepare and submit a statement that no conflict-of-interest issues exist with the

Statements of qualifications. In addition, non-conflict of interest statements must also be provided for any sub-consultant.

Agreement

The Consultant selected to provide the above-referenced services will be expected to enter into a

Consulting Agreement contract with the Town of Ithaca.

Insurance

The Consultant shall maintain minimum insurance coverage as outlined in the Agreement.

J. Submission Deadline

Statements of qualifications are due at the close of business (4:00 PM Eastern Time) on July 30, 2026.

Responses must be sent electronically, in PDF format, with the subject line: ‘Esri ArcGIS Urban Scenario

Planning – response’ to:

nquiltykoval@townithacany.gov

To ensure that all Respondents have a clear understanding of the scope and requirements of this RFQ, the

Town will respond to all questions submitted in writing to the Town contact

(nquiltykoval@townithacany.gov) by the deadline for questions stated above.

The Town of Ithaca reserves the right to reject any and all of the responses received as a result of this

RFQ. The Town of Ithaca does not intend to award a contract solely on the basis of responses to this RFQ or otherwise pay for the information solicited or obtained in response to this RFQ.

The Town will make every reasonable effort to keep Respondents informed about the RFQ process.

Questions and responses, notifications about timeline date changes, amendments to the RFQ and other information will be sent via email to all Respondents who have provided an email address to the Town contact. There are no site visits scheduled.

Questions or requests for clarification regarding the RFQ should be submitted via email, citing the RFQ page and section in accordance with the Timeline section, to nquiltykoval@townithacany.gov. Questions will not be accepted orally, and any question received after the deadline may not be answered. This RFQ is only available electronically. Interested parties may download this RFQ, any comprehensive list of questions/requests for clarifications, as well as the official responses at no cost on both the New York

State Contract Reporter and BidNet websites.

The Town of Ithaca will not be liable for any cost incurred by the Consultant for any work performed through, and including the execution of, a contract for professional services prior to the execution of a contract.

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*Roads shown are not necessarily representative of town highway standards but recognized as established access routes.

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Map produced 2025-07-09 by Town of Ithaca Engineering.

Basemap data from the 2024 O�cial Town Map.

Future Land Use data from the 2014 Town Comprehensive Plan.