RIHousing: Rent Relief Outreach and Assistance RFP

Request for Proposals

Rent Relief Outreach and Assistance

Application Deadline: 3 p.m. Friday, November 19, 2021

RIHousing seeks to establish a roster of qualified vendors to provide services for RentReliefRI, the Emergency Rental Assistance program funded by the federal government and administered by RIHousing. Vendors would be engaged on an as needed basis to provide one or more of the below services:

• RentReliefRI Application Assistance
• RentReliefRI Outreach
• RentReliefRI Legal Assistance
• RentReliefRI Application Processing

It is a priority under this RFP to engage a diverse set of partners to ensure outreach and assistance for RentReliefRI is provided across a range of populations, language groups, and cultural communities. RIHousing encourages traditional and non-traditional partners to apply including: for- and non-profits, social service entities, neighborhood organizations, cultural entities representing a variety of populations, places of worship, community groups and organizations who serve as trusted resources of information.

The program is slated to run through December 2022.

QUESTIONS?

A virtual Q&A session will take place on Wednesday, November 10, 2021 at 3PM to provide technical answers to any questions interested organizations may have.

Access the virtual session here >

ADDITONAL INFORMATION

Selected vendors will be engaged for a term of one (1) year, which may be extended for an additional two, one (1) year terms at the sole discretion of RIHousing. As the projects have not yet been identified, vendors selected for RIHousing's roster will enter into an “on-call” style agreement and will be selected for particular assignments based on expertise, availability and price. There is no guarantee of any level of spending activity to a vendor selected for this roster.

Vendors may bid on one, multiple, or all services listed in this RFP. Respondents must clearly identify which services they are proposing to provide and detail their capacity and costs to provide those services. Respondents are advised that all submissions (including those not selected for engagement) may be made available to the public on request upon completion of the process and award of a contract(s).

Please Note: Existing RentReliefRI partners do NOT need to respond to this RFP unless they are seeking to expand their current Scope of Work or change their services or pricing.

Electronic submissions of the proposal(s) should be submitted via email to:

Attn: Christine Hunsinger | research@rihousing.com

Proposals should be concise and include all attachments and work samples. Proposals should be presented on business letterhead.

Proposals must be received no later than 3:00 p.m. on Friday, November 19, 2021

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