Heavy Civil
City of Camas State Road 500 Everett Street
Client
RS&H, Inc.
Project Owner
Washing State Department of Transportation
Location
Camas, Washington
Project Value
$12,417,000
Industry
Heavy Civil
Account Executive(s)
Joshua Harden, Trey Wilson
Services Provided
Proposal Development |
Heavy Civil
City of Camas State Road 500 Everett Street
Client
RS&H, Inc.
Project Owner
Washing State Department of Transportation
Location
Camas, Washington
Project Value
$12,417,000
Industry
Heavy Civil
Account Executive(s)
Joshua Harden, Trey Wilson
Services Provided
Proposal Development |
Project Overview
The City of Camas State Road 500 Everett Street project was a $12,417,000 roadway design and reconstruction effort in Camas, Washington. The project targeted the SR-500/Everett Street Corridor, a 1.3-mile state highway serving as the primary route to Camas High School, regional parks surrounding Lacamas, Round, and Fallen Leaf Lakes, and the city's North Shore Sub-Area. The corridor had been identified for improvement in city-wide planning documents for years, and the initial phase of design work addressed frontage and street improvements within a segment long constrained by aging infrastructure and the absence of pedestrian and bicycle facilities. The client engaged PRESWERX to produce the written proposal.
Client Challenges
The client faced a technically complex multimodal pursuit with high community visibility and a well-documented planning history to navigate:
Communicating a clear, technically credible approach to reconstructing a heavily used state highway corridor that the city had been studying for over a decade.
Framing the team's design strategy within the corridor's established planning context and the owner's long-standing multimodal improvement goals.
Differentiating the client's approach to a corridor serving thousands of students, park users, and local businesses in a competitive field.
Together, these challenges required a proposal that was technically rigorous, community-aware, and clearly aligned with the agency's planning priorities.
Scope of Work
PRESWERX developed the written proposal for the client's submission to the Washington State Department of Transportation for the SR-500/Everett Street Corridor project. The proposal organized the team's technical approach to the corridor's initial phase of street and frontage improvements, connecting the design strategy to the corridor's documented planning history and the agency's multimodal goals. PRESWERX structured the narrative to address the corridor's significance as a primary school and park access route, the constraints of the existing right-of-way, and the team's qualifications to deliver a project that had long been a priority for the City of Camas.
PRESWERX Approach
PRESWERX treated the proposal as both a technical document and a community story, recognizing that the corridor's significance extended well beyond its engineering scope.
Grounded the proposal narrative in the corridor's long planning history, positioning the team's approach as the logical next step in a process the agency had invested in for years.
Structured the technical approach to address the corridor's specific constraints, including right-of-way limitations, the absence of pedestrian and bicycle facilities, and its role as a primary school access route.
Built a narrative that demonstrated the team's understanding of both the engineering challenges and the community context surrounding the SR-500/Everett Street Corridor.
The result was a proposal that made the client's technical depth and community awareness equally legible to evaluators.
Results Delivered
PRESWERX delivered a written proposal built to the standards of a competitive state transportation agency pursuit, with content that addressed both the technical and community dimensions of the project.
The proposal connected the team's technical approach directly to the corridor's decade-long planning history, demonstrating alignment with the agency's stated priorities.
Structured narrative addressed the corridor's specific constraints and the team's qualifications to deliver improvements to a high-use, community-critical state highway segment.
A clear, well-organized format gave evaluators a complete picture of the team's approach and readiness without burying the key points in technical detail.
The client entered the selection with a proposal that presented their qualifications and approach as the right fit for a corridor the city had been waiting years to improve.
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