RFP - High Injury Network Update and Safety Analysis

All questions must be submitted via Public Purchase, and staff will only respond to questions submitted via Public Purchase. Teton County is seeking proposals from qualified professional engineering and planning consultants to help translate the County’s existing safety planning into specific, actionable safety improvements that can be implemented in the near term while also informing larger, longer-term investments.

The County adopted its Comprehensive Safety Action Plan (SAP) in 2025, which established a High Injury Network and identified systemic safety concerns and potential countermeasures throughout the County.

The County intends to build on that work rather than repeat it. Since the adoption of the SAP, several fatal crashes have occurred on Town, County, and state roadways, reinforcing the need to move quickly from identifying safety risks to implementing specific countermeasures. In June 2025, a cyclist was fatally struck by a drunk driver on South Park Loop Road. In December 2025, a pedestrian in the Glenwood/Broadway crosswalk was fatally struck by an allegedly distracted driver (case pending).

In July 2026, two drivers in two separate vehicles were struck by a runaway dump truck around mile marker 6 on Teton Pass; in August 2026, another serious injury occurred near the same location. Neither investigation has concluded as of this writing; however, driver education and familiarity with mountain roads are suspected to be among the causes in both crashes just above the census-designated place of Wilson, WY.

The County is seeking a consultant who can use the existing SAP, current crash data, and other available information to identify where additional action is most needed and what strategies will be most effective given our trends.

The primary outcome of this project is a prioritized list of practical safety countermeasures and projects that the County can advance toward implementation. The analysis should identify priority locations, diagnose the factors contributing to crashes and safety risk, and recommend context-appropriate engineering, operational, speed management, and other countermeasures.

Recommendations should distinguish between improvements that can be implemented quickly and longer-term improvements requiring additional planning, design, funding, or reconstruction. The County is particularly interested in near-term opportunities to implement meaningful safety improvements, as well as locations where the analysis can directly inform projects already under consideration.

For example, the County has developed a conceptual design for High School Road and needs timely safety analysis to ensure that future improvements address identified crash risks and provide the greatest possible safety benefit.

Other priority locations may similarly present opportunities for safety improvements through planned maintenance, capital projects, or other programmed work. The project should use the existing High Injury Network as an important starting point for prioritization, while incorporating the most recent crash data and considering whether recent crash patterns or other conditions warrant additional locations or areas of focus.

The consultant should avoid duplicating analysis already completed through the SAP and instead focus available resources on diagnosing priority locations and developing specific, feasible countermeasures that can be carried forward into implementation.

The scope also includes opportunities to evaluate broader tools that can strengthen the County’s future safety program, including context-sensitive speed management practices, predictive safety analysis, and benefit-cost analysis. These elements should support—not distract from—the primary objective of identifying and advancing safety improvements.

The County is seeking a practical, implementation-oriented product, not another study that documents existing safety conditions. The final deliverables should provide County staff and policymakers with a clear understanding of: (1) where action is most needed, (2) what countermeasures are recommended and why, (3) which improvements can be implemented in the near term, (4) which require additional design or investment, and (5) what additional analysis is needed to advance larger projects.