RFP/RFQ Title
Abilene MPO On-Call Performance-Based Planning and Programming Process Enhancement
Posting Date
07/02/2026
RFP/RFQ Description
The purpose of this procurement is making highly qualified Consultant resources available to the Abilene MPO to support the MPO transportation planning activities described in the current FY 2026-FY 2027 Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP). The Abilene Metropolitan Planning Organization (Abilene MPO) requests highly qualified consultants submit their qualifications for competitive selection of professional transportation planning services. A Metropolitan Transportation Plan is a 20-to-25-year roadmap for how to spend billions of dollars on roads, transit, and other big projects; and once that money is spent, it’s very hard to undo. The problem is that nobody can reliably predict what the next 25 years will look like: Will most cars be electric? Will people keep working from home? How fast will the population grow, and where? How much worse will floods and heat waves get? How much money will actually come in? These aren’t questions you can answer with a confident guess, and the old way of planning (predict the single most likely future and build for it) falls apart when that prediction turns out wrong, leaving the region stuck with the wrong projects. Decision-Making under Deep Uncertainty (DMDU) flips the approach: instead of betting everything on one forecast, it tests a bunch of possible plans against hundreds of different “what if” futures, finds the exact situations where each plan would fail, and then picks the plan that holds up reasonably well no matter what happens and can be adjusted later as the real future comes into focus. That’s why it makes sense as the backbone of building an MTP. It forces planners to be honest about what could go wrong, it matches what federal rules now expect, and it gives the public a clear, defensible record showing the chosen projects were tested against the many futures the region might actually face, not just the one somebody hoped for.
Link to RFP/RFQ:
https://www.abilenetx.gov/DocumentCenter/View/41669/CB-2643-Request-for-Proposals-PDF?bidId=
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