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Committee reviews retail recruitment tools as Retail Coach contract lapses
Summary
City staff and business partners told the Economic Development Plan Review Committee that the city's contract with Retail Coach expired in late December; members discussed data access, recruitment activity, and options for follow-through and staffing.
The Economic Development Plan Review Committee heard on Jan. 10 that the city's contract with Retail Coach expired about 10 days earlier and that the city is rebidding retail recruitment services.
Brian, city staff member, told the committee, "it expired about 10 days ago. It was for $27,000 annually for retail recruitment services for the city of Minot." He said the city issued an RFQ and will interview a respondent in about two weeks and urged members to review the Retail Coach community retail dashboard available at www.retail360.us/minot.
The committee heard that the contract previously purchased data access and analytics used for site selection and market-area analysis. "It's the access to the Esri data, which is your credit card and cell phone data that they pay for and have access, and then they do analytics," said a staff member involved in…
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