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Request for Interest Ankeny Square Activation Request For Interest Ankeny Square Activation Portland Parks & Recreation (PP&R) invites interest from individuals, for-profit and non-profit organizations and businesses to propose business ideas and/or programing activities that will support activation at and provide a unique identity to Ankeny Square, part of the North Park Blocks. Ankeny Square is between SW Ankeny and W Burnside Streets, as attached in Exhibit A. PP&R recognizes that an effective public-private agreement has the potential to not only generate revenue but also positively enhance the experience of park users, businesses and residents surrounding Ankeny Square as well as visitor experience to The North Park Block as a whole. This Request For Interest (RFI) is encouraging and creating the competitive environment for new agreement(s) to be created. This RFI is designed to give all who may be interested an opportunity to suggest public-private partnerships, including those for permits or lease agreements depending on the nature of the response. PP&R Program Objective: This RFI seeks to support activities that will be quick to start and responsive to critical community needs in the area for positive park experience. PP&R will provide Ankeny Square for $1/year in rent for up to two (2) year; with successful proposer(s) responsible for all utility costs. In addition to other ideas, the concepts listed below represent the current feedback from stakeholders in the area to be considered for award: • Concessions such as food and/or beverage carts • Retail such as flower shop, souvenir shop, or art/book/jewelry cart • Bike related such as hub for storage, rentals or repair – This location has been identified by Portland Bureau of Transportation as a possible location for the City Bike Share, and will be part of the City Bike Share public process. • Portland information booth • Recreational programing promoting physical activity • Programing promoting arts and culture PP&R public-private agreement response precepts: • Proposals must demonstrate a sound business plan with financial sustainability. • Proposals must clearly explain how the proposed idea/activity produce clearly defined positive financial, social, environmental and/or cultural impact to Ankeny Square and the surrounding neighborhood, and provide positive park experience. Evaluation Criteria: This RFI requires proposers to provide the following: • Cover Letter must include the following (5 points): RFI title, Name(s) of person(s) authorized to represent the Proposer in any agreement negotiations and execution, contact information (street address, phone and email addresses). • Business Plan must include the following (20 points): Concise summary of the proposal and identify how proposed idea/activity will meet PP&R’s program objective; Proposer’s qualifications and experience; details of expected startup costs; and description of the capabilities of the Proposer including financial capacity to start and operate proposed idea/activity. • Concept site plan (5 points): Provide description of space and utility needs for your proposed idea/activity in narrative form, a simple site plan sketch, and other graphics including but not limited images of your concept and/or site photos of areas of intended use. Proposer may use attached site map as the base for your site plan sketch; and identify what utilities you will need access to. Proposal Evaluation: An evaluation review committee will evaluate the proposals received. For the purpose of scoring proposals, each of the committee members will evaluate each proposal in accordance with the criteria and point factors listed above. The evaluation committee may seek outside expertise, including but not limited to input from technical advisors, to assist in evaluating proposals. The successful proposer shall be selected by the following process: 1. An evaluation committee will be appointed to evaluate submitted written proposals. 2. The committee will score the written proposals based on the information submitted according to the evaluation criteria and point factors. 3. The committee will require a minimum of 10 working days to evaluate and score the written proposals. 4. A short list of proposers may be selected for oral interviews if deemed necessary. The City reserves the right to increase or decrease the number of proposers on the short list depending on whether the proposers have a reasonable chance of being awarded a contract. PP&R reserves the right to approve one or multiple proposals with compatible uses/activities. Following the proposal evaluation, PP&R may select one of these options: 1. Approval of one or multiple proposals and enter into negotiations; 2. Request additional information from the proposer(s); or 3. Reject the proposal(s). Proposal Submission: • Optional pre-submittal meeting will be on Friday, April 8, 2016 at 1:00pm – 2:00pm at Ankeny Square • Proposals deadline has been extended to Friday, April 22, 2016 at 4:00pm (PP&R reserves the right to extend RFI period. If extension is issued, all submitted Proposals will have the opportunity to use this extra time to update their proposals if they desire.) • Proposals submitted will be no more than 10 pages. • Please submit five (5) hard copies and one electronic copy to the PP&R Contact listed below by due date. PP&R Contact: Trang K. Lam, Property and Business Development Manager 1120 SW Fifth Avenue, Suite 1302 Portland, Oregon 97204 503.823.5229 [email protected] Attachment A Ankeny Square Ankeny Square .
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