Economic Development Strategy Services - Budget - Up to 70,000 CAD

The Village is seeking economic development strategy services to establish a realistic, authentic, and comprehensive framework for its community. This framework must include a vision, goals, economic context, priority sectors, opportunity areas, and high-level strategic directions. The agency needs to balance economic, environmental, and social realities with ambitions of attracting investment, residents, and entrepreneurs while fostering business expansion and retention. The project scope requires engaging residents, businesses, property owners, surrounding governments, economic development agencies, corporations, and non-profit organizations. The strategy must recognize the limited staffing and budget resources of the Village during implementation. Additionally, the work must build local capacity and resilience by supporting entrepreneurship and long-term community economic governance structures. The agency is requesting opportunities for improved understanding and relationship building with Indigenous economic development, business, and entrepreneurial interests. This effort must examine regional economic drivers that complement the larger community. All performance of the work will take place offsite. Only Canadian organizations operating onshore are eligible to bid on this opportunity. Bidders must submit their responses digitally via email or online. The agency has established a budget of up to 70,000 CAD for these services, and the submission deadline is June 12, 2026.