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ANNOUNCEMENT: Call for Planning Vendor RFP
The DEC seeks proposals from qualified individuals or firms to support equitable community planning and bring skill sets that will benefit the MVP 2.0 process.
Click here to download the RFP.
Click here to download the Addendum / RFP Response to Questions (updated September 19, 2025).
Contact Beth Suedmeyer with questions and to request the budget template in a modifiable format: e-mail: bethsuedmeyer@devensec.com.
RFP Timeline:
– Questions Due: September 15, 2025, at 4:00 pm
– Addenda with Answers: September 18, 2025, at 4:00 pm
– Proposal Submittal Deadline: September 25, 2025, at 4:00 pm
Project Overview
Devens has been awarded a MVP 2.0 program grant. The grant program, run by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, funds communities throughout Massachusetts to identify climate vulnerabilities and invest in resilience. The MVP 2.0 program expands on the work communities have done to date, revisits resilience priorities, and supports communities with new methods, tools, and resources. The process focuses on equity to ultimately translate resiliency priorities into action through project development and implementation. Here is an overview of the 2.0 process and the Governor's press release announcing the grant award.
This work will be different than the original MVP Planning Grant (MVP 1.0) approach, as It focuses less on understanding how extreme weather events will impact infrastructural and environmental assets in the community, and more on building social resilience. This includes exploring the factors that create vulnerability or resilience for people living or working in the community. It involves digging deeper into issues like food security and housing affordability and understanding how those factors shape what is needed for building resilience to climate change.
2018 Devens Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness Plan
Through a Grant from the State Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness Program, Devens completed a comprehensive Climate Change and Natural Hazard Vulnerability Assessment, Preparedness, and Action Plan. Priorities herein will be reviewed and updated in the MVP 2.0 Planning Process. View the full report.