Choice Neighborhood Planning & implementation

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) intends to procure the services of a vendor to provide and coordinate comprehensive technical assistance (TA) to planning and implementation grantees of HUD's Choice Neighborhoods program. It is anticipated that two task orders will be added for the vendor to provide and coordinate TA to the grantees of the Department of Education's (ED) Promise Neighborhoods program and the Department of Justice's (DOJ) proposed Byrne Criminal Justice innovation program, subject to the availability of FY2011 funding for those two programs. Choice Neighborhoods, Promise Neighborhoods and Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation are among the centerpiece place-based programs of the White House Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative. Through joint technical assistance, HUD, ED, and DOJ seek to increase program alignments where grantees have shared needs and will benefit from a common learning platform. The proposed NAICS for this procurement is 541611 with $7.5 in annual receipts. HUD estimates a period of performance of a two-year base period and a one-year option year. At this time HUD has not determined whether to solicit the service as a sole source direct 8a award, competitive small business, an unrestricted basis or under the GSA Schedule under FAR Part 8. A decision will be made after reviewing responses to this notice. Interested vendors shall provide a detailed Capability Statement that addresses (1) working knowledge of comprehensive planning and implementation for neighborhood revitalization across a range of neighborhood assets, including integrating solution across the domains of housing and community development, education and child development, and public safety; (2) successful experience in improving the quality, scope and sustainability of grantee activities by providing and coordinating TA through a variety of delivery methods (i.e, direct consultation, assessments, facilitation, peer knowledge-sharing forums, structured online tools, conferences, written guides, and reports); (3) successful experience providing and coordinating TA to community organizations that maximizes the impact of activities similar in type and scope to the required activities of the three federal programs; (4) successful experience identifying, leveraging and coordinating partners to supplement the TA the vendor is able to provide; (5) successful experience helping community organizations integrate federal programs and communicate programs and policy barriers and recommendations; and (6) successful experience promoting the adoption of effective practices by rapidly sharing information, including case studies that are emerging. If interested, please submit your Capability Statement to Gay.E.Julian@hud.gov and Selena.P.Anderson@hud.gov not later than 4:30 ET March 18, 2011.