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Bid Date/Time: June 16, 4 p.m.

Clackamas County is soliciting proposals for the services of a qualified consultant to develop the policy framework for updating the county’s transportation system plan for urban and rural areas.

The plan will identify a system of transportation facilities and services adequate to meet community needs and to achieve compliance with the transportation planning rule. The plan will replace the transportation element of the comprehensive plan and the public facilities plan for transportation.

Despite the severe recession of the last two years, Metro is projecting continued population growth, much of which will occur through in-fill – although urban reserves bordering the metropolitan urban growth boundary were established recently. Rural cities also are expected to grow and add traffic to the county road system. Plans to accommodate additional traffic have historically been under-funded, and that pattern is expected to continue.

The updated transportation system plan needs to be innovative in the sense of the practical design of road systems and identifying lower cost, effective projects that benefit community health and safety, and meeting transportation needs addressed by the plan.

This project is funded with 100 percent county funds, and the budget is not to exceed $50,000 for the work to be done over a four-month period.

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