Institutional Space Planning and Management Services

The public authority in Michigan is seeking a vendor to provide strategic planning, programming, and utilization analysis of instructional and academic-support environments within higher education settings. The agency is trying to optimize teaching and learning spaces to improve capacity, efficiency, scheduling performance, and alignment with evolving pedagogical models. This initiative focuses on teaching and learning delivery and student-facing academic support, excluding research-intensive lab programming. The required scope of work covers classroom utilization analysis, instructional capacity modeling, functional space-to-program alignment assessment, and active learning typology assessment. The selected vendor will also perform departmental instructional footprint analysis, space standards benchmarking, conceptual test-fitting, conceptual rendering, and the identification of underutilized instructional spaces. Additional tasks include developing scenarios for reallocation or renovation concepts, recommending phasing and sequencing, and providing high-level, order-of-magnitude funding implications for planning purposes. The project further encompasses planning-level departmental programming for offices, advising, study areas, and shared support, alongside planning for teaching labs, studios, and student-facing academic support functions. Bidders must be onshore organizations based in the United States to be eligible for this opportunity. The agency expects the performance of the work to take place offsite. The agency is requesting proposals to determine the budget for this project. Bidders must submit all questions regarding this opportunity no later than July 2, 2026.