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Committee endorses staff move to issue ITN for master plan update; debates public interviews, scoring and negotiation procedures
Summary
Committee members directed staff to prepare an Invitation to Negotiate (ITN) to hire a consultant for the master plan update and debated interview transparency, evaluation weights and whether price should be a scored factor.
The committee directed staff to prepare an Invitation to Negotiate (ITN) for the downtown master plan update and debated how best to structure the procurement, shortlisting and interview process to balance fairness, creativity and transparency.
Renee Hayes, the city’s procurement official, reviewed the solicitation options and recommended an ITN approach that allows proposers to outline approaches while enabling staff to negotiate terms with shortlisted teams. Committee members discussed the relative merits of RFQ/RFP versus ITN, whether interviews should be in public and whether…
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