(1) Vendor needs to provide strategic direction development consulting services to the government authority located in Ontario.– Strategic framing, market analysis, and future direction of the Development Department.– Conduct a competitive analysis comparing with peer organizations to identify differentiation opportunities.– Provide risk mitigation advice for over–dependence on specific funding categories.– Develop a funder alignment matrix ranking prospects by gift potential, values alignment, and probability of success.– Provide a one–page priority funder list for internal use.– Include guidance on relationship–building protocols with Indigenous rights holders and corporate reconciliation policies.– High–level engagement and solicitation strategies.– Level of effort and strategic priority.– Strategic priority level.– Associated investment requirements (staffing resources and suggested staffing structure, tools, marketing).– Projected revenue potential and anticipated return on investment (monetary and non–monetary).– Recommended donor acquisition strategies.– Stewardship activities embedded into annual work plans to deepen long–term relationships.– Include specific recommendations for developing a legacy and planned giving stream, integrated into the broader revenue development strategy.– Recommended strategies for each revenue stream.