1. Purpose/Background
The Boulder County Community Services Department is interested in receiving bids from qualified individuals and firms for the provision of 1) Group Process Facilitation and Planning and Evaluation Services related to the County’s Opioid Abatement effort. This work is designed to provide direction to the county on the development of a strategic plan that can guide investments over the longer term that will result in meaningful impacts on opioid issues and, separately, evaluation of this strategy. The goals of the work are to: 1) Provide support to a planning group known as the Boulder County Region Opioid Operations Board in their efforts to develop a comprehensive plan for the use of Opioid Settlement dollars, and 2) Develop and implement a long-term evaluation plan to measure the effectiveness of investments designed to impact opioid issue across the county. Applicants may bid on one or both of these components.

If you bid on RFP #7417-23 – Opioid Process Facilitation and Evaluation, you are still required to submit to this RFP.

2. Written Inquiries
All inquiries regarding this RFP will be submitted via email to the Boulder County Purchasing Office at purchasing@bouldercounty.gov on or before 2:00 p.m. August 3, 2023. A response from the county to all inquiries will be posted and sent via email no later than August 8, 2023.

Do not contact any other county department or personnel with questions or for information regarding this solicitation.

3. Submittal Instructions
Submittals are due at the email box only, listed below, for time and date recording on or before 2:00 p.m. Mountain Time on August 16, 2023.

Vendors must answer whether line-item pricing information submitted with a bid is confidential or closely held.

Please note that email responses to this solicitation are limited to a maximum of 50MB capacity.

NO ZIP FILES OR LINKS TO EXTERNAL SITES WILL BE ACCEPTED. THIS INCLUDES GOOGLE DOCS AND SIMILAR SITES. ALL SUBMITTALS MUST BE RECEIVED AS AN ATTACHMENT (E.G. PDF, WORD, EXCEL).

Electronic Submittals must be received in the email box listed below. Submittals sent to any other box will NOT be forwarded or accepted. This email box is only accessed on the due date of your questions or proposals. Please use the Delivery Receipt option to verify receipt of your email. It is the sole responsibility of the proposer to ensure their documents are received before the deadline specified above. Boulder County does not accept responsibility under any circumstance for delayed or failed email or mailed submittals.

RFP #7495-23