California eProcure #SGC26005

Technical assistance and capacity-building services for California climate-program grantees

California is seeking one provider to help climate-program grantees move projects from planning and pre-development into implementation. - Government buyer: State of California; Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation (LCI), through the Strategic Growth Council (SGC). The Department of Conservation implements the Transformative Climate Communities (TCC) Program, and SGC administers the Community Resilience Centers (CRC) Program. - Opportunity: Implementation technical assistance for TCC Round 6 and CRC Round 2 grantees, including Planning, Project Development, and Implementation Grant recipients. - Services requested: Individual grant-management, invoicing, reporting, budgeting, work planning, project-management, infrastructure pre-development, and climate-resilience support; TCC project greenhouse-gas quantification; and TCC capacity-building activities such as workshops, peer learning, guides, reports, and templates. - Scale and budget: Support is estimated for approximately 9–14 TCC grantee teams and 15 CRC grantee teams. The capacity-building task budgets approximately 1,300 hours. The contract ceiling is $3,050,000, with up to $2,000,000 for TCC technical assistance and capacity-building tasks and $1,050,000 for CRC technical assistance. - Notable requirements: Provide occasional in-person assistance across California while supporting remote delivery; use accessible, ADA-compliant materials; demonstrate experience with California infrastructure projects and underserved, rural, unincorporated, or tribal communities; and address tribal cultural competency and data sovereignty. Tribal experience is desirable, and conflict-of-interest restrictions apply. - OEMs and vendors: No product manufacturers, OEMs, or contractor vendors are named. No physical products or product part numbers are requested. - Performance period: Expected to begin in 2027 after required Department of General Services approval and continue through 2032, approximately five and a half years. No option years or annual subscription are specified.

Description

The solicitation seeks a provider to deliver implementation technical assistance to Round 6 grantees of the Transformative Climate Communities Program and Round 2 grantees of the Community Resilience Centers Program. The provider will build grantee capacity and support implementation of grant-funded Planning Grants, Project Development Grants, and Implementation Grants. Services include individualized assistance with grant management, invoicing and reporting, project management, and infrastructure and climate-resilience subject-matter expertise, as well as designing and carrying out capacity-building programming. Proposals are due January 15, 2027, at 5:00 PM PST; the notice lists a maximum contract budget of $3,050,000.

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