Title
Workplace Readiness Skills Training - Professional Services Contract (Ordinance S-48312)
Description
Request to authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to enter into an agreement with AVID Consulting, LLC to provide workplace readiness skills training. Further request to authorize the City Controller to disburse all funds related to this item. The total contract amount will not exceed $300,000. Funds are available from the City’s allocation of Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) grant funds.
Report
Summary
This contract will provide training services to develop and deliver behavioral training services to clients enrolled as an adult or dislocated worker to help build and refine soft-skills, increase workplace readiness and increase opportunities for attaining employment in high-growth industry positions at family-sustaining wages.
Procurement Information
Request for Proposals, RFP-21-BWDD-45, was conducted in accordance with the City of Phoenix Administrative Regulation 3.10. The Human Services Department received six offers on Oct. 29, 2021, and determined four were responsive and responsible to the solicitation requirements.
The Evaluation Committee evaluated all proposals based on the outlined evaluation criteria, responsiveness to all the specifications, terms and conditions, and responsibility to provide the required service. The Evaluation Criteria was as follows:
Soft-Skills Training Curriculum: 250 possible points;
Service Methodology: 250 possible points;
Qualifications and Experience of Key Personnel: 200 possible points;
Bid Price Schedule: 200 possible points; and
Organizational Capacity: 100 possible points.
The Evaluation Committee reached consensus and recommends that the contract be awarded to AVID Consulting LLC, as the highest-scoring, responsive and responsible offeror, which is most advantageous to the City.
Contract Term
The term of the contract will begin on or about July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023, with four one-year options to extend, which may be exercised by the City Manager or his designee.
Financial Impact
The total contract value shall not exceed $300,000. Funds are available from WIOA grant funds in the Human Services Department's budget.
Department
Responsible Department
This item is submitted by Deputy City Manager Gina Montes and the Human Services Department.