Transportation Planning and Design Services

The City of Somerville, Massachusetts, is seeking a vendor to provide comprehensive transportation planning and design services. The agency needs to address various municipal transit challenges through data collection, infrastructure design, and community engagement. The scope of work covers long-range transportation planning studies, transportation impact assessments, and transportation demand management projects and programs. To support these initiatives, the agency requires parking counts, curb utilization data collection analysis, and pedestrian, bicycle, and transit passenger counts. The selected vendor must also deliver parking demand models, GIS mapping support, walk audits, and street renderings. Engineering requirements include stamped sign and pavement markings plans for quick-build projects, stamped traffic signal plans, and transit signal priority plans. The project also involves public-facing components, including street outreach with customer intercept surveys and placemaking services such as public art installation. Only onshore organizations based in the United States are eligible to bid on this opportunity. The agency expects the performance of all contracted work to take place offsite. The agency has not disclosed a specific budget and is looking for cost proposals from interested bidders. All questions regarding this procurement must be submitted to the agency no later than June 24, 2026.