The Public School Facilities Authority (PSFA) is seeking proposals from qualified consulting teams to lead a comprehensive update of New Mexico’s school facilities planning framework, including the Adequacy Planning Guide (APG), Statewide Adequacy Standards, and Maximum Allowable Gross Square Foot (GSF) Calculator.

The Scope of Work for this project focuses on modernizing the state’s core planning tools to better reflect current educational practice, enrollment trends, emerging instructional programs, and the evolving needs of school communities across New Mexico.

The APG will be redesigned to improve its clarity, usability, and visual coherence in alignment with New Mexico’s statewide adequacy framework. The Statewide Adequacy Standards will be reviewed to identify potential statutory amendments and ensure alignment with current educational practice and facility needs. The GSF Calculator will be fully redesigned to determine facility size based not only on enrollment but also on educational programming, while also providing expanded outputs related to the staffing, energy consumption, and lifecycle cost implications of facility sizing decisions. The intent will be to strengthen alignment between statutory requirements and planning guidance while improving the transparency, usability, equity, and defensibility of facility planning decisions.

The project will include a robust statewide stakeholder engagement process that will include school district staff, teachers, students, elected officials, legislative staff, PSFA staff, planning professionals, design professionals, community members, and other relevant stakeholders. Engagement will occur across urban, rural, remote rural, and tribal contexts and will inform all phases of the work.

The work will require demonstrated expertise in project management and quality control, stakeholder engagement and facilitation, development of clear and usable planning tools, understanding of cost and lifecycle implications, and educational facilities planning and design with experience in climate-responsive design, multimodal transportation access and circulation (e.g., Safe Routes to Schools, charging for electric buses), and planning for specialized or nontraditional school environments, including schools serving students who are deaf or blind, military schools, residential education programs, and other similar educational settings.

Proposals will be evaluated based on qualifications and experience, technical approach, stakeholder engagement strategy, expertise in school facilities planning and design, ability to develop clear and usable tools, understanding of cost and operational impacts, and professional integrity.