Valdez Civicplus #448

Valdez Comprehensive Safety Action Plan consulting services

The City of Valdez is seeking a consultant to create a community-focused roadway safety plan under the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Safe Streets and Roads for All program. - Government buyer: City of Valdez, Alaska; work involves the Community Development and Capital Facilities departments and a local Safety Task Force. - Procurement: One comprehensive Safety Action Plan consulting engagement; stated project budget is $350,000. - Services requested: - Manage the project and coordinate with City staff and the Safety Task Force. - Analyze road conditions, traffic, crash data, field observations, and systemic safety risks for all road users, including pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists, and freight. - Engage the public and stakeholders, and identify and map a High-Injury Network using a methodology suited to a small community. - Develop and prioritize context-sensitive safety projects and programs, with planning-level cost estimates and conceptual illustrations for selected projects where useful. - Prepare draft and final plans, implementation strategies, performance measures, a public-facing executive summary, and presentation materials; support plan adoption. - Notable requirements: Address Valdez’s snow, ice, reduced daylight, snow storage, winter maintenance, visitor traffic, and local travel patterns. Recommendations should use evidence-based approaches across engineering, education, enforcement, and other measures, with emphasis on low-cost, high-impact improvements. Seasonal field observations should be included where feasible. - Deliverables: Existing-conditions and safety analysis, public engagement summary, High-Injury Network mapping, executive summary, draft and final Safety Action Plans, and presentation materials. - Named OEMs or consulting vendors: None. Microsoft OneDrive is identified as the proposal submission platform, not as a requested product or service.

Description

The City of Valdez seeks proposals from qualified consultants to develop a Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) Comprehensive Safety Action Plan. The work includes transportation safety analysis, public and stakeholder engagement, High-Injury Network identification, development and prioritization of safety strategies and projects, and preparation of plan deliverables. The plan must address safety for all roadway users and account for local and seasonal conditions, and meet applicable USDOT SS4A requirements. The stated project budget is $350,000; Addendum 2 extends the proposal submission deadline to November 10, 2026, at 5:00 p.m. Alaska Time.

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