Palo Alto Opengov #IRFP199425

Palo Alto Utilities Fiber Enterprise Financial Model and Strategy Consulting

The City of Palo Alto Utilities Department seeks consulting support to assess and plan its fiber enterprise through an updateable financial model and related decision analysis. - Government buyer: City of Palo Alto, Utilities Department; Palo Alto, Santa Clara County, California. - OEMs and vendors: No OEMs, manufacturers, or prospective consulting vendors are named in the opportunity. - Requested services: Four one-lot tasks: project initiation and information review; supporting analysis and assumption development; Fiber Enterprise Pro Forma development and testing; and findings, recommendations, and knowledge transfer. - Scope: Review City financial, operational, customer, infrastructure, and planning information; analyze and test assumptions; model existing dark fiber, backbone investments, internal City use, residential fiber internet service, and potential future services or expansion. Illustrative scenarios may address dark fiber services, enterprise offerings, multi-dwelling-unit opportunities, FTTP expansion, and deployment sequencing. - Deliverables and requirements: Editable, transparent, staff-maintainable model; assumptions and analysis documentation; user guide, testing summary, and analysis outputs; training, staff working sessions, recommendations, and complete handoff. Optional services require written City authorization. A stand-alone market study, detailed engineering or design, rate study, or cost-of-service study is not required unless separately authorized. - Contract and pricing: Cost proposal identifies one lot for each of the four tasks; no actual prices or contract value are provided. The initial notice anticipates a one-year contract, while the sample agreement describes task-order-specific terms.

Description

The City of Palo Alto Utilities is seeking consulting services to develop an updateable Fiber Enterprise Pro Forma and related decision-support analysis. The consultant will create a transparent, staff-maintainable financial model and analyze market, customer, operating, and future-service assumptions to support scenario planning for the City's fiber enterprise. Work includes project initiation and information review, supporting analysis, model development and testing, and findings, recommendations, and knowledge transfer. The analysis will address existing dark fiber services, backbone investments, internal City use, residential fiber internet service, and potential future services and expansion.

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