Purpose
The purpose of this Request for Qualifications and Quotations (RFQQ) is to solicit Bidders that have the adequate skills and expertise to manage, support, and implement adaptive management of the 2026-2030 Action Agenda for Puget Sound.

Background
The Puget Sound Partnership (PSP) is the state agency formed to support the region’s collective effort to restore and protect Puget Sound. The Partnership works with hundreds of partners to coordinate and catalyze action around a common plan, the Puget Sound Action Agenda (Action Agenda).

The Action Agenda charts the course for Puget Sound recovery as our community's shared plan for advancing protection and restoration efforts across the region. It outlines an adaptive management framework to accelerate Puget Sound recovery and be responsive to ongoing scientific discovery. The Action Agenda also serves as the Puget Sound Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan (CCMP) for the Puget Sound National Estuary Program (NEP). The NEP is a non-regulatory initiative and a forum for engaging and aligning diverse organizations in partnership to create, implement and monitor approaches to achieve economic and environmental health of the Puget Sound. In 2016, Region X of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) implemented a funding model intended to accelerate recovery and protection of Puget Sound. Under this model, the Puget Sound Partnership acts as a convener of the Puget Sound Management Conference – the governments, organizations, businesses, and individuals engaged in Puget Sound recovery – and curates the Puget Sound Action Agenda.

The Action Agenda includes a vision of a healthy and resilient Puget Sound and describes what we must achieve, how we will achieve it, and how we will hold ourselves accountable to ensure we make progress. The Action Agenda represents the collective work of federal, tribal, state, local, nongovernmental, and private organizations to recover Puget Sound. Hundreds of partners from across Puget Sound invest their leadership and resources to adaptively manage and implement this bold and effective plan to accelerate Puget Sound recovery.

The Action Agenda is comprised of two components: the Comprehensive Plan and the Implementation Plan. The Comprehensive Plan (including appendices) charts the longer-term vision for recovery and explains the recovery framework. The Implementation Plan provides the shared focus and implementation guidance for recovery over the next four years. Most of the Implementation Plan content is captured in the on-line Action Agenda Explorer.

PSP leads the development and adaptive management of the Action Agenda, an undertaking that requires extensive coordination and collaboration with a diversity of recovery partners throughout the Puget Sound region. The 2026-2030 Action Agenda update will build off the groundwork of the 2022-2026 Action Agenda and focus on targeted improvements to enhance our recovery work.

WEBS Posting: WEBS (wa.gov)

PSP Website: Puget Sound Partnership - Fiscal Notifications (wa.gov)