Tender: Environmental Master Plan Background Research for Rocky View County

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Rocky View County is seeking a qualified environmental planning consultant or multidisciplinary consulting team to complete background research, analysis, and reporting that will establish the technical and policy foundation for a future Environmental Master Plan (EMP). The assignment will organize existing information, identify gaps and opportunities, compare leading municipal approaches, and provide options to guide the subsequent EMP process. The EMP is intended as an outward-facing plan focused on the County’s role in land use planning, development, stewardship, partnerships, and community-facing environmental programs and is explicitly not a corporate sustainability plan addressing internal operations; the contractor must maintain this distinction and identify corporate matters for a separate future process. Preliminary EMP focus areas are water, watersheds, riparian areas, and wetlands; natural areas and landscape systems; biodiversity and ecological connectivity; the agriculture–environment interface (focusing on environmental matters not fully addressed through the Agriculture Master Plan); environmental development standards, conservation tools, and community stewardship; and natural assets and the ecosystem services they provide, which must be considered across the focus areas. Climate adaptation—particularly flood, drought, wildfire, water-supply, and landscape-resilience considerations—must be integrated throughout the analysis rather than treated as a stand-alone topic. The base assignment does not include full EMP drafting, broad public engagement, statutory-plan amendments, primary field investigations, or a complete County-wide natural asset valuation, but it must provide an evidence-based roadmap and engagement questions for later phases.