Announcement of Request for Proposals (RFP’s) For Direct Service Provider /One-Stop Operator for Kentucky Career Center – Bluegrass/American Job Center

The Bluegrass Workforce Innovation Board (BGWIB) is one of Kentucky’s ten Local Workforce Development Boards established to provide direction and oversight of Workforce Innovation Opportunity Act (WIOA) service delivery throughout a 17-county area of central Kentucky.  The BGWIB is the area’s workforce development board for Anderson, Bourbon, Boyle, Clark, Estill, Fayette, Franklin, Garrard, Harrison, Jessamine, Lincoln, Madison, Mercer, Nicholas, Powell, Scott, and Woodford counties.  The BGWIB is requesting proposals with new innovative ideas for programs that demonstrate high performance in WIOA service delivery, efficiencies in administration and operations, creative uses of technology, social media, and information management. Additionally, the BGWIB is looking for collaborative strategies to strengthen and expand WIOA services delivery in alignment with economic development and direct connection to businesses throughout the Bluegrass area.

The timetable for this RFP is as follows:

• Original release of RFP: 03/14/2025

• Press Release of RFP 03/14/2025

• Public Advertisement announcing release of RFP: 03/14/2025

• Written Questions Due: 03/21/2025

• Posting of Final Questions and Answers: 03/28/2025

• Proposals due by: 04/30/2025 by 4:30pm

• Evaluation Panel Review: 05/07/2025

  
  
  
  

• Notification of Contract Recommendation: 05/30/2025

• Contract and Services Begin: 07/01/2025

Interested parties should check the Bluegrass Workforce Innovation Board website to access the RFPs and revisit regularly for updates: https://www.bgwib.com/rfp. All questions about the RFP or review process must be submitted in writing. All questions will be responded to in writing and published on https://www.bgwib.com/rfp by 4:30pm March 28th, 2025. Bidders may submit their questions between the dates of March 14th, 2025 and March 21, 2025, by 4:30pm EDT from the BGWIB’s RFP page: https://www.bgwib.com/rfp. No questions will be accepted after the time designated above.  Throughout the entire RFP schedule, no Bluegrass Workforce Innovation Board member, BGWIB staff, or Chief Elected Official for the Bluegrass area may be sought out for advice or assistance. Such communication will constitute grounds for eliminating a proposal submission from consideration. The BGWIB Board members and/or Chief Elected Officials for the area reserve the right to amend the RFP process and/or the RFP schedule without advance notification.

SUGGESTED READING BEFORE RESPONDING TO THE RFP:

·         Local and Regional Plans for the Bluegrass: https://www.bgwib.com/planning

·         Strategic Plan: https://www.bgwib.com/planning

·         Registered Apprenticeship Programs: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/advisories/training-and-employment-notice-no-04-15     

·         WIOA – General Guidance for One-Stop Operations: https://wdr.doleta.gov/directives/attach/TEGL/TEGL_16-16.pdf      

·         Guidance on Services provided through the Adult and Dislocated Worker Programs under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) and the Wagner-Peyser Act Employment Service (ES), as amended by title III of WIOA, and for Implementation of the WIOA Final Rules: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/advisories/training-and-employment-guidance-letter-no-19-16