Intent to Single Source Tampa Economic Dashboard Migration & Deployment

The City of Tampa's Economic Opportunity Department is pursuing a single-source procurement for the migration and deployment of the Tampa Economic Dashboard, with Assemblage Consulting LLC as the sole proposed vendor. The project involves transferring the existing CityEconomy.org dashboard from its current maintenance by Bloomberg Associates to city-owned infrastructure, with a critical transition scheduled between late August and December 2025. The procurement specifically requires migrating a complex backend data ingestion application, MongoDB database, and frontend web application that were originally developed by Assemblage Consulting. Key deliverables include design and infrastructure planning, complete data and code migration, configuration revisions, comprehensive testing, and final system deployment by December 2025. The procurement is unique in that it requires highly specialized technical expertise in the dashboard's architecture, data processes, and maintenance routines, which are not publicly documented or easily replicable. The posted opportunity (ID: 685ee1b2453e55f5fa069354) was released on May 8, 2025, with a due date of May 7, 2025, covering Hillsborough County, Florida.

No specific set-aside designations or restrictions on respondent organizations are mentioned in the documentation. The incumbent vendor is Assemblage Consulting, which originally designed the dashboard for Tampa, Phoenix, and Baltimore with Bloomberg Associates' support. The existing infrastructure includes a specialized codebase with unique data ingestion processes and deployment mechanisms that require intimate knowledge of the system's architecture. The total project cost is $10,000, to be paid in two equal installments of $5,000 - one at project start and the other upon migration completion and system acceptance. The City of Tampa will retain full rights to the system, source code, and associated data, with future infrastructure and hosting costs being the city's responsibility. Long-term system support will require a separate maintenance agreement, and all data will be handled according to best practices for security and confidentiality. The procurement is structured as a sole-source contract due to Assemblage Consulting's exclusive expertise and the system's complexity, which would make alternative vendor involvement prohibitively expensive and risky.