Fiscal Note
The funding for the proposed consulting and data services contract is included in the MPO’s 2021 purchased services budget. No additional City appropriation is required.
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Authorizing, on behalf of the Greater Madison MPO, a noncompetitive sole source contract for a one-year subscription renewal to an online transportation data analytics software platform from StreetLight Data, Inc. to support MPO and City of Madison planning activities
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WHEREAS, the City of Madison is responsible for providing professional staff services to the Greater Madison MPO (“MPO”), the designated metropolitan planning organization for the Madison area, as provided for in the 2007 MPO designation agreement; and
WHEREAS, the City of Madison is the administrative and fiscal agent for the MPO and is a legally constituted entity under the laws of the State of Wisconsin and able to receive the federal and state grant funding, which covers 84% of the MPO budget; and
WHEREAS, as the designated MPO for the Madison area the Greater Madison MPO has responsibilities to perform metropolitan transportation planning and programming activities, including development of a long-range multi-modal regional transportation plan and transportation improvement program; and
WHEREAS, due to limitations in scale, cost, and time, traditional travel data collection methods alone are not sufficient to support effective transportation planning and project design given the changing transportation landscape as evidenced by the impact of COVID-19 on travel, and transportation professionals are therefore turning to “big data” sources from mobile devices and connected vehicles to support planning for the future in our dynamic transportation world; and
WHEREAS, the MPO has had a subscription to StreetLight InSight, StreetLight Data’s on-demand transportation analytics software platform for two years to support MPO planning activities; and
WHEREAS, the original subscription was purchased through...
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