Rental Market Study Services

The City of Unalaska Department of Planning (“Department”) is seeking proposals from qualified firms to provide professional consulting services to develop, administer, and evaluate the results of a residential and commercial/industrial property rent survey. The rent study should collect and analyzes terms, conditions, and market trends pertaining to monthly rent rates for residential housing and commercial/industrial properties located in Unalaska. City of Unalaska will use the rent survey to evaluate the current monthly rent schedules of various city-owned properties as well as for strategic planning for future housing and commercial/industrial development.

The Department intends to enter into a professional services contract with the consultant selected by this request for proposal (“RFP”) process.  Background information, scope of work, proposal contents and format, consultant selection criteria, and insurance requirements are included in this RFP.

Seven complete copies of qualifications and proposals must be submitted to the Office of the City Clerk by 5 P.M. local time, April 14, 2023.  Email proposals may be accepted.  It is the respondent’s sole and independent responsibility to timely submit their proposals and respondents assume the risk of delays in delivery of mail or delay or interruption of facsimile transmissions.  Note that mail service to Unalaska is regularly delayed due to bad weather.  The City may, in its sole discretion, relax or extend the submission deadline if reasonably deemed necessary in the interest of justice and fair administration of the project.

The qualifications and proposals must be in a package clearly marked UNALASKA RENT STUDY RFP and submitted to:

Office of the City Clerk
City of Unalaska
43 Raven Way
P.O. Box 610
Unalaska, AK 99685

Or emailed to [email protected] and [email protected] with the email subject:

[Name of Firm] – City of Unalaska Rent Study RFP

Emailed quotes will be accepted before and on the published date, and until the time specified, and must be submitted in a single email no larger than 15 megabytes.

Additional information will be posted to the City of Unalaska website for download at: https://www.ci.unalaska.ak.us/RFPs