DISASTER RECOVERY AND MITIGATION TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

The Town of Hardwick is soliciting proposals from qualified firms to provide on-call disaster recovery, mitigation, and grant management technical assistance for current and future disasters. This Request for Proposals (RFP) seeks to establish a master services agreement with one qualified consultant or consultant team to support FEMA Public Assistance (PA), FEMA Hazard Mitigation Assistance (HMA), and related federal, state, and other recovery or resilience funding programs, as requested by the Town of Hardwick. Services may include project formulation, eligibility strategy, damage and cost documentation, cost and schedule development, engineering coordination and review, FEMA Grants Portal support, reimbursement support, procurement and compliance guidance, hazard mitigation application support, benefit-cost analysis support, appeals, closeout, and related task-order assignments. This RFP will result in one or more master services agreement(s) between the selected Consultant(s) and the Town of Hardwick for an initial three-year term, with two optional one-year extensions. The Town of Hardwick does not guarantee the selected Consultant(s) any minimum fee, task order, or volume of work. Following execution of the master services agreement, the Town of Hardwick may negotiate specific scopes of work, schedules, deliverables, and not-to-exceed budgets through individual task orders.