Announcement to Communities on Availability of CBP3 Technical Resource Support
Background
The National Municipal Stormwater Alliance (NMSA) is offering technical resources to a limited number of communities who are interested in utilizing the Community-Based Public-Private Partnership (CBP3) program approach to implement large scale green infrastructure at a significant cost savings for reducing stormwater runoff, localized flooding, and making green economic improvements to their communities. The CBP3 program approach was developed by the U.S. EPA to help communities accelerate environmental infrastructure investments – especially distributed infrastructure types such as green stormwater infrastructure – in a more efficient and cost-effective manner through project bundling, fixed-fee infrastructure implementation, and efficient project delivery approaches that reduce frictional costs and maximize aligned interests between service providers (design, build, O&M).
In addition, the CBP3 program approach provides a framework that maximizes the benefit to local workers and small and minority-owned businesses by requiring specific utilization of these local human resources and workforce development assets. Just as important, this new and innovative approach provides a platform for long-term and large-scale infrastructure investing that can leverage funding and financing options providing the best deal for the community, whether that be through public or private sources.
A number of communities have implemented or are in the process of developing a CBP3 with each program uniquely matching the needs identified by each community. NMSA, through their recently launched Community-Based Public-Private Partnership Center for Water, Energy and Equitable Economic Resilience, is accepting applications for communities who wish to explore how the CBP3 program approach can work for them.
Information on Technical Assistance Offered
Assistance will take the form of expertise and technical support and will include background research and remote engagement with key municipal department staff to gain knowledge on community issues such as stormwater management program needs, workforce and small and minority business development efforts, affordable housing, infrastructure funding/financing, economic development, and other environmental and/or infrastructure challenges and needs. The overall objective of this assistance is to understand community goals and priorities and if/how the CBP3 program approach may work for the community to meet these goals and needs, and the documenting of the information to obtain direct feedback from the private sector on the interest and capacity to address these goals and needs through the CBP3 program approach.
The output will be an assessment report provided to municipal staff and leadership on the potential for the CBP3 to be used within their community to meet identified needs and goals. A PowerPoint presentation will also be developed using this same information in order to convey this information more readily to others within the municipal government as well as other stakeholders on the local potential for the CBP3 program. In addition, a procurement document (RFI/RFQ/RFP) tailored to the CBP3 program approach will be developed to enable the community to seek out engagement from the private sector on the interest and capacity to use this approach to address identified goals/needs. Finally, a web-based meeting will be held with municipal staff and leadership to go over all of the information provided.
Deadline and Registration Information
For those interested in applying, please fill out information directly in this electronic form or download the fillable form and send to Seth Brown, NMSA Executive Director at seth.brown@nationalstormwateralliance.org. Note that only public sector/municipal staff can seek out technical assistance. It is anticipated that communities will be selected to to reflect varying geographies, sizes/scales, and priorities in terms of environmental, social, and economic challenges/needs.
