West Sac Forward Transit Priority Plan

Tender summary

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE The City of West Sacramento is soliciting proposals from qualified firms or individuals ("Proposer") to provide technical and planning guidance to develop a clear vision and plan for near-term (2035) and long-term (2050+) public transit implementation strategies to connect major activity centers, mobility hubs, and the active transportation network within West Sacramento. This plan, called the West Sac Forward Transit Priority Plan (Plan), requires proposers to examine the status quo, think creatively, and apply a combination of tested best practices and innovation as a positive change maker to both optimize the existing transit network and prescribe future transit strategies to serve planned growth with consideration of varying geography, user needs, and rider behavior both within the City and surrounding region. Given West Sacramento's location, overlapping transit service providers, and the realities of limited operating and capital funding, the consultant team selected to develop the Plan will want to consider and address several key questions: What is the best division of roles among transit providers to optimize both local and regional connectivity for West Sacramento residents? How well does the current network actually serve the places people need to go, and where do service gaps and redundancies exist? What would a cleaner, more efficient, and affordable transit network look like? West Sacramento is also physically separated from Sacramento by the river, making bridge crossings and potential future connections critical chokepoints in the regional network. How will infrastructure investments like the C Street-Railyards Bridge, Broadway Bridge, and Enterprise Crossing change that calculus? Can ridership and available funding support expanding LRT or BRT in West Sacramento? What does ridership data actually tell us about suppressed versus low demand — and which corridors, if improved, could unlock significant latent ridership and meaningful mode shift? The objectives of this Plan include conducting a thorough evaluation of existing conditions within the City and its primary transit corridors, and analysis of transit services, ridership data, and transit demand to recommend actionable steps to increase transit travel time savings, reliability, and resiliency; grow ridership and support mode shift; improve access and mobility for equity priority communities and transit-dependent populations; reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, traffic congestion, and Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT); and improve public safety — all while balancing service cost and system performance. The Plan is intended to be a living, active document that is continuously referenced, informs local Short Range Transit Plans, and is updated regularly as the transit system improves, technologies evolve, and West Sacramento and the surrounding region grows. This Plan and its analysis, outreach and public participation process, and recommendations will provide the City of West Sacramento (City) and our transit partners Sacramento Regional Transit District (SacRT), Yolo Transportation District (YoloTD), and current West Sacramento On-Demand microtransit service provider, Via Transportation, Inc., (Via) with recommended strategies to enhance the preservation and performance of existing bus, paratransit, and public on-demand microtransit services in the near-term, and guide long-term implementation of transit service investments including electric regional Light Rail service and potential future Bus Rapid Transit connecting West Sacramento to surrounding cities and the greater Sacramento region, should market demand indicate their viability. More details on the City's needs for this work are provided in the Scope of Work . This is a partially grant-funded project awarded by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) under their Sustainable Transportation Planning grant program. It is anticipated that the contract for this project will be awarded August 5, 2026. All work must be concluded by the consultant team and all final invoices must be received and approved by the City before June 30, 2028. Each qualified Proposer is to submit a proposal in conformity with the terms of this Request for Proposal ("RFP") by the deadline below ("Proposal"). The Proposer selected by the City pursuant to the terms of this RFP and the City's contracting procedures, if any is selected, is referred to herein as "Contractor." SYNONYMOUS TERMS Unless the use indicates otherwise, as used throughout this bid and its attachments, the following terms are synonymous: a. Firm, Consultant, Supplier, Vendor, Contractor, Successful Bidder, Offeror b. Purchase Order, Contract, Agreement c. Services, Work, Scope, and Project d. Pricing proposal/sheet, Cost proposal/sheet, Rate table/sheet

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• Issued by City of West Sacramento.
• Located in United States.
• Source notice cityofwestsacramento:26-043-RFP on US OpenGov.
• Notice published 24 Apr 2026; Tenqual indexed it 30 Apr 2026.
• Deadline listed as 3 Jun 2026.
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