RFP-Visit Rhode Island Tourism Analytics and Impact Reporting

The Rhode Island Commerce Corporation is seeking a vendor to design, host, and maintain a comprehensive tourism‑analytics platform, provide ongoing monthly data‑refresh, analysis, and advisory services, and produce an annual tourism‑economic‑impact report for calendar year 2025. The effort includes ingesting multiple data sources (website analytics, lodging, short‑term rentals, credit‑card spend, media attribution, air‑service data), building a multi‑user dashboard with exportable visualizations, delivering written insights each month, and delivering a detailed impact study with regional breakdowns. • Provide a vendor‑hosted, secure dashboard (minimum 10 user logins) that integrates and manages all tourism‑related datasets and supports role‑based security and exportable outputs. • Deliver monthly reporting cadence: data refresh, quality‑assurance, updated dashboards, written insights memo, leadership scorecard, and review call, plus ad‑hoc support. • Produce the 2025 Annual Tourism Economic Impact Report (visitor volumes, spending, jobs, tax impacts, GDP, regional analysis) with methodology documentation and presentation‑ready deliverables by Oct/Nov 2026. • Include a full data‑source responsibility matrix, training/on‑boarding plan, and transition documentation to minimize vendor lock‑in. • Meet Rhode Island minority‑business participation requirements (minimum 15 % overall, 7.5 % each for minority‑owned and women‑owned firms).