Santa Clara Valley Water District PlanetBids #VW0742

On-call classification and compensation consulting services for Valley Water

Santa Clara Valley Water District is seeking firms for on-call classification and compensation consulting under RFP VW0742. - Government buyer: Santa Clara Valley Water District (Valley Water), including Consultant Contracts Services Unit #820 and the Human Resources Division, Talent Acquisition & Career Pathways Unit. - Requested services: As-needed classification and compensation studies; classification recommendations and job-structure design; reviews of classification disputes and rebuttals; job-specification development; compensation analysis, market studies, and benchmarking; implementation and ad hoc consulting. - Project support: Task-order coordination, work plans and schedules, budget and progress monitoring, status reporting, meetings and workshops, and related deliverables. Additional meetings, reports, calls, and site visits may be requested. - Contract value and term: One or more firms may share a five-year agreement with an aggregate not-to-exceed amount of $495,000. No minimum work is guaranteed. The agreement template notes a $500 payment if no services are requested during the term. - Qualifications: Firms are expected to have at least five years of relevant consulting experience, including public-sector work, and at least three comparable completed projects. Project managers should have at least seven years of relevant experience and analysts at least five. At least three professional references are required; CCP, SHRM-SCP, SPHR, or equivalent credentials are preferred. - Cost proposal: Consultants must provide proposed labor rates, including overhead, profit, and total burdened rates, plus estimated costs for other direct costs (ODCs). - OEMs and vendors: No product OEMs or consulting vendors are named in the supplied materials; this is a professional-services procurement, not a product purchase.

Description

Santa Clara Valley Water District seeks proposals from qualified firms to provide on-call classification and compensation support services. Work may include classification and compensation studies, classification dispute and rebuttal reviews, job structure and specification development, market benchmarking, and ongoing consulting or implementation support. The District anticipates awarding agreements to one or more firms for a five-year term, with an estimated not-to-exceed aggregate amount of $495,000 shared among the agreements; no amount of work is guaranteed. Proposals are due electronically by November 13, 2026, at 2:00 PM UTC.

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