# Santa Clara County Biddingo #RFP-CEO-FY26-0615

Santa Clara County shoreline adaptation planning and community engagement services

**Posted:** October 15, 2026
**Respond By:** November 06, 2026
**Identifier:** RFP-CEO-FY26-0615
**NAICS:** 541620, 541330, 541720, 541820

Santa Clara County is seeking a multidisciplinary team to prepare a shoreline adaptation plan and engage communities across participating jurisdictions.
- **Government buyer:** County of Santa Clara, Office of Sustainability and Resilience (OSR).
- **Requested team:** A technical and facilitation contractor, plus a community-based organization (CBO) to lead engagement. The County may procure these components together or separately.
- **Participating jurisdictions and partners:** Cities of Palo Alto, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, San Jose, Santa Clara, and Milpitas; Valley Water; and the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA). The Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) provides regional guidance and reviews the plan.
- **Services requested:** Project management and coordination; existing-conditions analysis; multi-jurisdictional vulnerability and economic-consequences assessment; adaptation strategies for 0.8-foot and 3.1-foot sea-level-rise scenarios; implementation, funding, and monitoring plans; priority projects; plan packaging and jurisdictional annexes; adoption support; and equitable community engagement.
- **Community engagement:** Provide multilingual and targeted outreach, including outreach to California Native American Tribes. For each of the existing-conditions/vulnerability, local-visioning, and adaptation-strategy phases, hold at least four workshops in the Santa Clara Valley OLU, three in the Stevens OLU, and one in the San Francisquito OLU. The adaptation-strategy phase also requires one survey per OLU.
- **Notable requirements and outputs:** Align the SCCSAP with BCDC’s Regional Shoreline Adaptation Plan (RSAP) Guidelines and minimum categories; prepare draft RSAP Elements A–G, analyses and maps, strategy alternatives and conceptual plans, implementation and funding materials, CEQA planning support, adoption presentations, and a final plan for BCDC review. Address equity, frontline and vulnerable communities, tradeoffs and adverse equity effects, interagency coordination, and prioritization of nature-based or green/gray-green infrastructure.
- **OEMs and named vendors:** No OEMs, product brands, or prospective contractor vendors are named. No products or quantities are requested.

### Description

Santa Clara County is seeking a contractor team to develop the Santa Clara County Subregional Shoreline Adaptation Plan (SCCSAP), aligned with the Bay Conservation and Development Commission’s Regional Shoreline Adaptation Plan Guidelines. The work includes existing-conditions analysis, a multi-jurisdictional vulnerability assessment, adaptation strategies and pathways, implementation and funding plans, priority projects, plan packaging and local adoption support, and community engagement. The team is to include a technical/facilitation contractor and a community-based organization leading engagement; the County may award one contract covering both components or contract separately for Task 6. The plan is intended to address sea-level-rise risks in unincorporated areas and participating jurisdictions, with submissions covering RSAP Elements A–G and jurisdictional annexes.

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