Santa Clara Valley Water District PlanetBids #VW0740

On-call external investigative services for Valley Water

Santa Clara Valley Water District is seeking on-call firms to investigate workplace, ethics, and equal-opportunity matters. - Government buyer: Santa Clara Valley Water District (Valley Water), through its Office of Ethics and Equal Opportunity Programs (EEOP) and Labor Relations team; the agreement template also references the Deputy Operating Officer. - Services requested: On-call, task-order-based external investigations into ethics, equal opportunity, workplace conduct, and alleged violations of laws, policies, rules, or procedures. Work may include investigation planning, evidence review, witness interviews and credibility assessments, findings, reports, file management, status updates, optional mediation, and support for hearings, depositions, arbitration, litigation, or trial. - Requirements: Firms must have at least five years of relevant neutral workplace-investigation experience. Investigations are expected to be impartial, prompt, thorough, trauma-informed, and well documented, with applicable federal and California employment-law knowledge. Confidentiality, records-retention, public-records, and conflict-of-interest requirements apply. - Contract structure and value: Valley Water may select multiple firms and assign work through authorized task orders. No minimum workload is guaranteed. The shared aggregate not-to-exceed amount across agreements is $500,000. - OEMs and vendors: No specific OEMs, service-provider vendors, or prospective firms are named. No products, product quantities, or product part numbers are requested.

Description

Santa Clara Valley Water District is seeking proposals from qualified firms to provide impartial, thorough investigative services on an on-call, as-needed basis. Investigations may concern ethics, equal opportunity, workplace conduct, and alleged violations of applicable laws, policies, rules, and procedures. Services may include fact-finding, policy-compliance assessments, investigative reports, mediation when appropriate, and support for hearings, depositions, or trial as authorized by Valley Water. The RFP anticipates agreements for a three-year term, with options for two one-year extensions, and states an estimated not-to-exceed amount of $500,000.

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