Title
Head Start Birth to Five Program Professional Development Training Services Qualified Vendors List - RFQu-22-EDU-72 (Ordinance S-49552)
Description
Request to authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to approve a Qualified Vendors List (QVL) and enter into agreements with responsive offerors, on an as needed basis, to provide professional development training to parents, staff and community partners through professional speakers and trainers. The aggregate value of all contracts issued under the QVL will not exceed $500,000. Further request to authorize the City Controller to disburse all funds related to this item.
Report
Summary
Head Start prepares America’s most vulnerable young children to succeed in school and life beyond school. To achieve this, Head Start programs deliver services to children and families in the core areas of early learning, health and family well-being while engaging parents.
Professional development for Head Start Birth to Five staff and parent education for enrolled families is essential to ensure high-quality services are being delivered to support families on the road to well-being and self-sufficiency. The Head Start Birth to Five Program is seeking experts in the field of early education, social services, parent engagement, family well-being, health and safety, fatherhood, and mental health to provide in-depth comprehensive training to staff and parents. The presentations must be geared toward adult learners, include multiple modalities, be engaging, and vary based on learning formats.
The QVL is meant to identify highly qualified professionals who can provide information or skill development that may lead to behavioral changes for families, staff members, and/or community partners.
Procurement Information
A Request for Qualifications procurement was conducted in accordance with City of Phoenix Administrative Regulation 3.10.
Eighteen proposals were received on Jan. 20, 2023. Seventeen were deemed responsive and responsible to the solicitation requirements. The procurement officer evaluated the offers using a pass/fail evaluation matrix under the following criteria:
- Five years of experience.
- Professional license, certificate, credential, degree in area of expertise, or publication verification.
- Provided documentation of a minimum of one professional development event or five hours of technical assistance each year for the last three years.
- Reference checks with positive results.
- Provided a description of the training sessions and topics including measurable outcomes, process improvements, unique information, tools/takeaways, and attendee involvement.
- No active exclusions found on the System for Award Management database.
- In good standing with the Arizona Corporation Commission.
The following offerors met all solicitation criteria and are recommended to be added to the QVL:
- AVID Consulting, LLC
- Children’s Literacy Initiative
- Emperador Enterprises dba Sol Discovery
- Family and Community Educational Services of AZ, LLC dba FACES of AZ, LLC
- Dr. Maria Church International, LLC
- Gurian Institute, LLC
- Highscope Educational Research Foundation
- Jinny Smith
- Lakeshore Parent, LLC and Lakeshore Learning Materials, LLC
- RONSPEAK, LLC
- SEAR, LLC dba Institute for Child Preparedness
- Southwest Human Development, Inc.
- Teaching Strategies, LLC
- Time to Sign, Inc.
- Western Kentucky University Research Foundation, Inc. dba Training & Technical Assistance Services (T/TAS)
- White’s Premiere Consultants
- ZERO TO THREE
Contract Term
The QVL will be in effect on or about April 5, 2023, for a five-year term with no options to extend.
Financial Impact
Expenditures shall not exceed $500,000 over the life of the QVL. Funding for Head Start is available from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration of Children, Youth and Families. No additional General Funds are required.
Concurrence/Previous Council Action
On Sept. 28, 2022, the Head Start Birth to Five Policy Council approved the request to release Financial Literacy Training and Coaching Services Request for Qualifications.
Department
Responsible Department
This item is submitted by Deputy City Manager Gina Montes and the Human Services Department.