The Ventura County Transportation Commission (VCTC) is seeking proposals from qualified consultants to update the Ventura County Comprehensive Transportation Plan (CTP), as described in the Request for Proposals. The Ventura County CTP Update is funded by a grant from the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) Sustainable Transportation Planning – Sustainable Communities Grant Program, with matching funds from VCTC.

VCTC adopted the original Ventura County Comprehensive Transportation Plan in 2013. The CTP Update will be developed as a long-range policy document, built from community-based, local priorities and community-expressed need to enhance regional connections. The Plan is aimed at ensuring mobility and enhancing quality of life for all Ventura County residents, and will examine key regional issues, such as equity and access, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, enhancing climate-resilient transportation networks, improving mobility across all modes of transportation, and exploring various funding strategies and options from the federal, state, regional, and local levels. The CTP Update is intended to provide a framework for future community-based planning and collaboration and will inform Ventura County's longrange transportation decisions. VCTC plans to incorporate an update to the Congestion Management Program (CMP) in conjunction with the CTP Update. The CMP was last updated in 2009.

The CTP update will address these issues through robust community engagement and will incorporate existing land use, transportation, and housing plans to identify current community transit and transportation priorities. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, public outreach is expected to incorporate best practices in online and other alternative community engagement tools to supplement in-person workshops and public meetings, if and when public health guidelines permit gatherings.

Key components of the scope of work include a Community Needs Assessment, Existing Conditions Report, Public Outreach, and the Draft and Final versions of the Comprehensive Transportation Plan Update.

A Pre-Proposal Conference will be held on January 22, 2021 at 10:00 AM Pacific using the Zoom platform. Proposals are due no later than 4:00PM Pacific on February 5, 2021. For more information and to download the RFP, please visit https://www.goventura.org/work-with-vctc/contracts/.