Request for Qualifications:?Wake Transit On-Call for?Transit Planning, Engineering, Marketing/Communications, Technology, Management and Financial?Services

Location:	North Carolina
Posted:	Mar 18, 2026
Due:	Apr 13, 2026
Agency:	NC Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization
Type of Government:	State & Local
Category:	R - Professional, Administrative and Management Support Services
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Request for Qualifications: Wake Transit On-Call for Transit Planning, Engineering, Marketing/Communications, Technology, Management and Financial Services

The North Carolina Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (CAMPO), through a joint procurement process with the City of Raleigh, Town of Cary, and the Research Triangle Regional Public Transportation Authority (GoTriangle), is inviting interested and qualified consulting firms or individuals to submit Statements of Qualifications (SOQs) demonstrating the ability to perform a variety of planning, marketing and communications, engineering and environmental, technology, program and project oversight/management, and financial services for a multi-jurisdictional group of transit agencies and transportation planning organizations on an "on-call" basis. Consultants or individuals are expected to have expertise in a variety of disciplines. This solicitation of professional services intends to constitute an "on-call" consulting services relationship with qualified consulting firms or individuals for a three (3) year period from Fiscal Year 2027 through Fiscal Year 2029 (June 1, 2026 - June 30, 2029).

Scope of Service Areas:

Planning Services
Engineering/Environmental/Land Acquisition Services
Marketing, Communications and Engagement Services
Technology Services
Program and Project Oversight/Management Services
Financial Services

Responding firms or individuals may submit an SOQ to be considered and compete for any or all of the six (6) categories of services. However, all SOQ submissions must be submitted for a minimum of one (1) category of services. Completed Proposals are due no later than 1:00 p. m. on Monday, April 13, 2026, with selection of a list of on-call consultants by May 22, 2026.

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TASK	TIME	DATE
Advertise the RFP		March 18, 2026
RFP Question Submittal Deadline Questions should be submitted via email to: Ben Howell .	5 PM EDT	March 30, 2026
Pre-Qualification Meeting Meeting Registration Link	10 AM - 11 AM EDT	April 1, 2026
CAMPO Responses to Questions	5 PM EDT	April 2, 2026
Submittal Deadline for Proposals Deliver Proposals, per instructions in the full RFQ.	1 PM EDT	April 13, 2026
Candidate Selection		May 22, 2026

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REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS

FOR

ON-CALL TRANSIT PLANNING, ENGINEERING,

MARKETING/COMMUNICATIONS, TECHNOLOGY,

MANAGEMENT, AND FINANCIAL SERVICES

(FYs 2027-2029)

Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization

City of Raleigh

Research Triangle Regional Public Transportation Authority

Town of Cary

March 18, 2026

Introduction and Background

The Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (CAMPO), through a joint procurement process with the

City of Raleigh, the Town of Cary, and the Research Triangle Regional Public Transportation Authority

(GoTriangle), is inviting interested and qualified consulting firms or individuals to submit Statements of

Qualifications (SOQs) demonstrating the ability to perform a variety of planning, marketing and

communications, engineering and environmental, technology, program and project oversight/management,

and financial services for a multi-jurisdictional group of transit agencies and transportation planning

organizations on an “on-call” basis. Consultants or individuals are expected to have expertise in a variety of

disciplines.

In November of 2016, Wake County voters approved a one-half percent sales tax to be dedicated to the further

development and enhancement of public transportation systems within the county. The approval by the voters

of the sales tax, for which collection began in April 2017, was a significant milestone for allowing transportation

planning and transit-providing organizations in Wake County to implement an ambitious and community-

transformative 10-year countywide transit plan. The plan, known as the Wake County Transit Plan, was

originally adopted in May and June of 2016 by CAMPO, Wake County, and GoTriangle and covered a planning

horizon through 2027. The first update to the plan that extended its horizon to 2030 was adopted by CAMPO

and GoTriangle in April of 2021, and the second update to the plan that extended its horizon to 2035 was

adopted by CAMPO and GoTriangle in November of 2025. The Wake County Transit Plan allocates significant

resources to a number of project sponsors, including the City of Raleigh, the Town of Cary, GoTriangle, and

a host of other municipalities.

The Wake County Transit Plan calls for major improvements in four (4) key areas: (1) Connecting regionally;

(2) Connecting all Wake County communities; (3) Providing frequent and reliable urban mobility; and (4)

Enhancing access to transit. Meeting these goals will involve:

• Expanding the frequent bus network (routes operating at 15-minute frequencies of better) from 99

miles to over 300 miles

• Increasing service coverage such that the proportion of Wake County residents within ½-mile of all

day fixed-route transit service will grow from 40% to 44%

• Increasing service coverage such that the proportion of Wake County jobs within ½-mile of all day

fixed-route transit service will grow from 62% to 67%

• Strengthening cross-county links with express bus, bus rapid transit and regional rail investments

• Providing opportunities for community-centric and regional transit connectivity investment in every

Wake County municipality

• Implementing over 40 miles of bus rapid transit (BRT) service with supporting speed- and reliability-

enhancing infrastructure

• Extending the number of hours per day and days per week transit systems operate

• Improving transit operations, connectivity, and access through investment in a network of transfer

points, transit centers, operations and maintenance facilities, and new and improved bus stops.

The complete plan is accessible by visiting:

https://www.campo-nc.us/about-us/committees/wake-county-transit-planning-advisory-committee-

tpac/document-library/

The 2035 plan represents a total investment of greater than $3 billion over 10 years to be implemented by a

multitude of transit agencies and municipal governments in a synchronized and coordinated fashion. With the

initiation of multiple bus service improvements and new routes, construction of new and improved passenger-

facing facilities, and continued planning and design for BRT, much progress has been made toward

effectuating the plan’s overarching goals since the original plan’s adoption in 2016. To date, over $1.8 billion

in additional transit investment has been authorized for specific projects. However, an abundance of effort

remains necessary in the coming years to fully realize the vision set by the Wake County Transit Plan.

The first procurement occurred in 2016, and in 2022 CAMPO, City of Raleigh, Town of Cary and GoTriangle

executed a Joint Procurement MOU and conducted an on-call procurement for FYs 2023 through 2026. The

2022 procurement resulted in a list of qualified consulting firms/individuals available to perform five (5)

categories of professional services on an on-call basis for a three (3)-year period from 2023-2026. Activities

performed under these solicitations included, but were not limited to:

• Fixed-guideway corridor major investment studies and alternatives analyses

• Multi-year bus service implementation plans

• A transit plan implementation public engagement policy

• Staffing Plans for transit plan implementation

• Program management plans for the Wake Transit Community Funding Area Program

• Customer and community attitudinal surveys

• Two updates to the Wake County Transit Plan

• A GoCary systemwide comprehensive operations analysis

• Regional transit technology integration studies

• Development of an online public-facing program implementation mapping and progress dashboard

tool

• Feasibility studies and site planning for transit facilities

City of Raleigh (GoRaleigh)—Operates 35 fixed bus routes and two microtransit services, and serves as the

project sponsor for the Wake Transit Plan’s program of BRT projects, multiple transit centers and transfer

points, and bus stop improvements

Town of Cary (GoCary)—Operates 9 fixed bus routes and serves as the project sponsor for a significant

regional multimodal facility and transfer point and bus stop improvements

GoTriangle Tax District Administration (TDA) – A department of GoTriangle that is responsible for

management and oversight of the Wake Transit Financial Plan and financial model, as well as the financial

plans and models for the Durham and Orange County Transit Plans

GoTriangle—Regional transit agency operating primarily in Wake, Durham, and Orange Counties with 15

fixed bus routes and serves as the project sponsor for a significant regional transit center and bus stop

improvements

CAMPO—Metropolitan Planning Organization serving Wake County and portions of Franklin, Granville,

Harnett, Chatham and Johnston Counties.

This 2026 solicitation of professional services intends to both reconstitute an ‘on-call’ consulting services

relationship with qualified consulting firms or individuals for a three (3)-year period from Fiscal Year 2027

through Fiscal Year 2029 (June 1, 2026 – June 30, 2029)and expand the range of services procured to better

match with the current and projected needs of the Wake County Transit Plan project sponsors over this

ensuing time period. While the need to retain transit planning services will persist, specific capital projects

funded with Wake Transit tax revenues continue to move beyond feasibility and alternatives planning phases

to more advanced implementation phases. This reality requires the joint procurement partners to procure

services to support these advanced phases, such as engineering/design, environmental investigation and

review, real property acquisition-related services, financial services, program and project oversight and

management services, etc. Because this is a joint solicitation of professional services among CAMPO, the

City of Raleigh, the Town of Cary, and GoTriangle, all four (4) of these parties were involved in the

development of the scope of services and will be involved in the qualifications review and consultant selection

process.

RFQ Schedule

ACTION

DATE

Advertise RFQ

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Deadline for Questions

5:00 pm, Monday, March 30, 2026

Questions must be submitted in writing (no phone calls) no later than 5:00 pm on March 30, 2026, to

ben.howell@campo-nc.us. Questions and responses will be posted on www.campo-nc.us no

later than 5:00pm on April 2, 2026.

Pre-Qualifications Meeting (Question and Answer

Session for Potential Respondents)

10:00-11:00 am, Wednesday, April 1, 2026

A Pre-Qualifications Meeting is scheduled to be held virtually through Microsoft Teams. The pre-

qualifications meeting is not a requirement of potential SOQ Respondents, but registration is required

to attend. Register here:

https://events.gcc.teams.microsoft.com/event/35d2b1ba-7657-494c-b944-8c5e9b6e1fcb@23f98eb6-

c8ce-4a93-8562-44f005daf93f

Statements of Qualifications Due

By 1:00 pm, Monday, April 13, 2026

Deliver in PDF format via email with “SOQ for Wake Transit On-Call Consultant Services” on the email

subject line by 1pm EDT to: ben.howell@campo-nc.us.

SOQs opening

2:00 pm, Monday, April 13, 2026

Candidate Interviews (if necessary)

May 11 – May 15, 2026

Preferred Candidate(s) Selection

May 22, 2026

Scope of Services

All agencies involved in any transit planning, engineering, or technology development processes have a desire

to coordinate transit services regionally and to ensure appropriate integration of transit services that may be

operated by others, if applicable. While this solicitation for professional services is expected to lead to a

contractor-client relationship with CAMPO, the City of Raleigh, the Town of Cary, or GoTriangle, or a

combination thereof, coordination with other local governments and agencies will be required for successful

delivery of services that require regional coordination.

Throughout the life of the ‘on-call’ arrangement procured through this solicitation, it is anticipated that most

task orders to be deployed that may lead to a vendor contract will be initiated independently by one of the

parties to this joint solicitation. Consequently, selected consultants will negotiate any services to be provided

and the appropriate consideration to be paid, as well as specific contract terms, individually with either the

Town of Cary, City of Raleigh, CAMPO, or GoTriangle. Selected consultants will also report directly to the

respective procurement party throughout the life of the contractual relationship with that party. In some limited

cases, more than one of the procurement parties may wish to jointly contract with a selected consultant, and

accordingly, the selected consultant will report to those respective parties as detailed in a vendor contract.

The services or products of consultant(s) selected from this solicitation may also be procured by other

agencies or municipalities through a piggybacking approach, if those agencies deem it to be permitted and

lawful to do so.

This prospective opportunity for on-call services will cover a duration of three (3) fiscal years (FY 2027 – FY

2029) with the option to terminate for convenience and the option to renew for a period of up to an additional

two (2) fiscal years (FY 2030 – FY 2031), not to exceed a total duration of five (5) fiscal years (FY2027 –

FY2031). The scope of services for this solicitation is broken down into six (6) categories of services.

Responding firms or individuals may submit an SOQ to be considered and compete for any or all of the six (6)

categories of services. However, all SOQ submissions must be submitted for a minimum of one (1) category

of services. It is envisioned that the following services may be needed during this period of time:

PLANNING SERVICES

• Public transportation planning, including but not limited to the following: corridor studies, feasibility

studies, high-capacity transit investment alternatives analyses, development of short- and long-range

transit service and infrastructure plans, blocking/runcutting, scheduling, Title VI analysis, Americans

with Disabilities Act (ADA) service planning, multi-modal coordination, etc.

• Transit-supportive land use planning and development coordination, which may include but would not

necessarily be limited to:

o Station area land use plans,

o Land use planning elements of corridor studies,

o Development of transit-supportive land use implementation tools, such as zoning and

development codes,

o Land development-specific negotiations and coordination,

o Development and negotiation of public-private partnerships,

o Affordable housing policy development and planning

• Multi-modal coordination planning to account for transit’s intersection with other transportation modes

• Site selection and site planning for transit facilities

• Development of performance standards, guidelines, measures, and targets for transit services,

investment in supporting capital assets, and ongoing asset management

• Analysis and development of program- and project-level policies to support the integrity and necessary

program control for countywide plan implementation

• Assistance with grant funding applications for transit projects that are at the planning stage

• Embedded staff to support agency transit planning activities

• Financial planning that is ancillary to and supports transit planning activities

• Public/community engagement that is ancillary to and supports transit planning activities

• Preparing and delivering presentations that are ancillary to and support transit planning activities

• Production of reports, memos, etc. that are ancillary to and support transit planning activities

ENGINEERING/ENVIRONMENTAL/LAND ACQUISITION SERVICES

• Development of preliminary and final designs for transit facilities/infrastructure

• Management, including change management, for design processes

This is the opportunity summary page. It provides an overview of this opportunity and a preview of the attached documentation.

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