Fargo committee adopts weighted RFP scoring approach, directs staff to draft RFP and proposes public timeline

Members of a Visit Fargo Moorhead selection committee agreed to use a weighted scoring matrix to evaluate proposals and asked city staff to draft a request for proposals that would be presented to the Fargo City Commission for approval before issuance.

The matrix assigns 40% of total weight to the top section and 30% to each of the other two sections, with individual line items inside each section summing to 100%, Visit Fargo Moorhead committee member Mallory Ackerman said. "Each section had to have a 100% right?" Ackerman said while walking the group through the calculation method and the 1-to-5 scoring scale used to produce weighted totals.

Charlie Johnson of Visit Fargo Moorhead said the spreadsheet on screen shows the averages of committee members' inputs and that the document explains the formulas used to produce the weighted scores. "What you see on the screen are the averages based on your votes," Johnson said, describing the SurveyMonkey responses the committee used to produce the sample results.

City staff member Jim Gilmore said he has a draft RFP in progress and offered to…