Bid Contract

Request for Proposals

Website Redesign

March 23, 2020 - April 24, 2020

The Village of Valemount is seeking a re-design of its website (www.valemount.ca) and the consultation and implantation of Word Press Content Management System (CMS). The website will need to enhance user experience, simplify content management, and provide better information and customer service to the community while meeting high standards for design quality and visual appeal.

The Village of Valemount is seeking an experienced company that can accomplish all of the functionality in this RFP and that has the capability of integrating additional features that may be identified in the future. The experienced company should have a team of experts who understand local government, to help us achieve our vision.

For full details please visit BC Bid at www.bcbid.gov.bc.ca

Proposals must be received by 12:00 pm on April 24, 2020.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Official Community Plan & Zoning Bylaw Update

March 18, 2020 - April 30, 2020

The Village of Valemount is seeking proposals for a professional community planning consultant to undertake the preparation of a new:

• Village of Valemount Official Community Plan (OCP) Bylaw
• Village of Valemount Zoning Bylaw

Current planning documentation (Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 595, 2006 and Zoning Bylaw No. 610, 2007) needs updating to better reflect the direction the Village of Valemount, as a Resort Municipality, is heading.  To create a proper foundation upon which land use and development decisions can be based. The Village seeks the services of a consultant or team of consultants to complete a comprehensive re-write of both documents.

A re-write of the OCP and the Zoning bylaws will incorporate current land use controls to carry out the Village's goals of encouraging improved urban design, creating pedestrian friendly neighbourhoods and commercial areas, promoting affordable housing, and sustainable development. We need a creative approach to community engagement that gets residents talking, submitting ideas, and gives them a sense of ownership of the final documents.

As outputs, we need a dynamic OCP that is flexible and open to creative solutions for development, benefits the community as a whole, and is interesting as a matter of visual presentation and writing style. We need an efficient Zoning Bylaw that does not impose unnecessary regulations, and gives land owners a sense of security regarding neighbouring uses, while encouraging creative and flexible options and solutions for new proposals and existing properties.

Accordingly, we request proposals from consultants with proven inter-disciplinary experience in master planning, urban design, community and stakeholder consultation, zoning regulations, and bylaw preparation to assist the Village of Valemount in generating new, vision-driven OCP and Zoning bylaws that are technically sound, and consistent with each other.

This initiative will have a significant public consultation component that helps the community identify with and feel ownership of a new direction for development proposals, and to otherwise shape a robust and inclusive direction for the Village of Valemount.

Relevant documents including the current OCP Bylaw, Zoning Bylaw, Economic Development Strategy, and additional background information can be found as attachments to this Request for Proposal at www.bcbid.gov.bc.ca

Closing date – April 30, 2020, 2:00pm