Request for Proposals: Transportation Equity Needs and Barriers Assessment

Through this Request for Proposals (“RFP”) the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (“MassCEC”) is seeking qualified consultants or professionals with experience in stakeholder engagement and facilitation; working with and understanding the needs of burdened populations and community-based organizations (“CBOs”); data collection/synthesis; communication; project management; and clean transportation technologies to serve as a project manager under MassCEC’s Transportation Equity Needs and Barriers Assessment.

Previous MassCEC programming has funded equitable, innovative, replicable, and scalable demonstration projects with the dual goals of increasing clean transportation access and decreasing existing transportation burdens for Burdened Areas. The goal of this Initiative is to coordinate robust stakeholder engagement and synthesize key transportation needs and barriers identified through this engagement, which can then inform future MassCEC and other state clean transportation programming.

The Consultant will be responsible for:

1. Ongoing management and reporting;
2. Partnering with and compensating CBOs to provide input on transportation needs and barriers and to assist with engagement efforts;
3. Facilitating robust outreach and engagement to residents of Burdened Areas through surveys, interviews, focus groups, attendance at community events, and other methods to collect feedback on key transportation needs and barriers; and
4. Synthesizing information collected to identify and prioritize key transportation needs and barriers that should be addressed by the state.

Please note: MassCEC will release a separate Request for Information (RFI) to solicit responses from CBOs that are interested in partnering on this Initiative in May 2026.