Public Engagement and Alternatives Analysis Service

The government authority in Ann Arbor, MI requires a vendor to provide public engagement, alternatives analysis, schematic design, early preliminary engineering, and cost estimation services for an approximately 1-mile, highly constrained trail section. The buyer expects the vendor to facilitate a public process and alternatives analysis to establish a basis of design, then advance that basis to 30% preliminary engineering plans. These plans and reports will support construction grant applications, future detailed engineering, and permitting. Completion of the work demands expertise in public engagement, civil engineering, non-motorized trail bridge design, landscape architecture, environmental permitting, traffic studies, and constructability analysis. The buyer limits eligibility to USA-based onshore organizations and specifies that work performance will occur offsite. The buyer has not set a fixed budget and is looking for proposals to establish costs. Interested vendors may attend an optional pre-bid meeting on September 29, 2026.