Active SLED Opportunity · ARIZONA · AGUA FRIA UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT
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Agua Fria Union High School District seeks vendors for Fire & Rescue / EMS instructional services in its CTE program. The RFP focuses on industry-aligned training, certification prep, and workforce readiness for high school students in Arizona.
Agua Fria Union High School District is seeking qualified vendors to provide Fire & Rescue / Emergency Medical Services (EMS) instructional services for its Career and Technical Education (CTE) program. The District is seeking a partner capable of delivering industry-aligned instruction that prepares students for certification opportunities, workforce readiness, and career pathways in emergency medical services and related public safety fields.
The selected vendor will provide comprehensive EMS instructional services, including classroom instruction, hands-on skills training, certification preparation, student assessment, and program support. The District encourages proposals from experienced organizations with demonstrated success delivering EMS, EMT, healthcare, public safety, or workforce development training programs.
The Agua Fria Union High School District serves approximately 10,000 students in grades 9-12 across six comprehensive high schools located in Goodyear, Avondale, and Buckeye, Arizona.
The District is committed to providing high-quality Career and Technical Education programs that prepare students for postsecondary education, industry certifications, and employment opportunities. As part of this commitment, the District offers career pathway opportunities in public safety and emergency medical services and seeks instructional partners that can provide relevant, industry-aligned training experiences for high school students.
The selected vendor will work collaboratively with District staff to support student success through instruction that aligns with Arizona CTE standards, applicable EMS education standards, and District program requirements.
The proposed cost of services. Price is an important consideration but will not be the sole determining factor in the award recommendation.
The Offeror's proposed instructional model, implementation approach, Fire & Rescue and EMS training methodologies, certification preparation processes, staffing plan, student assessment methods, and overall ability to successfully perform the services described in the Scope of Work.
The responsiveness of the Proposal to the requirements of the RFP, including an understanding of the scope of work and how it can be achieved most efficiently and effectively.
The Offeror's experience providing Fire & Rescue, EMS, EMT, public safety, healthcare, workforce development, or Career and Technical Education instructional services. Evaluation may include company experience, instructor qualifications, references, demonstrated success in similar programs, certifications, and the ability to meet District requirements.
Explanatory Note: The purpose of this question is to confirm the Bidder’s or Offeror’s acknowledgement and acceptance of the terms and conditions of the Solicitation, subject to any exceptions or modifications to terms or conditions that are expressly requested in the form or that have been requested and approved prior to submission of the Offer. All exceptions or modifications to the Solicitation, regardless of whether the District approved such items prior to submission of the Offer, must be clearly set forth in this form.
The Offeror, by the undersigned representative, acknowledges and accepts all terms and conditions of the Solicitation, except as expressly noted below or in the additional pages attached hereto. As used in this form, “terms and conditions of Solicitation” means all terms, conditions, specifications, certifications and warranties set forth in the documents that comprise the Solicitation, including the Uniform Instructions for Offers, Special Rules for Offers (if any), General Terms and Conditions of Contract, Special Requirements of Solicitation (if any), Specifications/Scope of Work, and Solicitation Addendums (if any).
If you requested an exception under the Acknowledgement and Acceptance of Terms and Conditions of the Solicitation, please clearly explain the requested exception/deviation. Reference the specific language that you are taking exceptions/deviations to. Unacceptable exceptions shall remove your proposal from consideration for award. Agua Fria High School District # 216 shall be the sole judge on the acceptance of exceptions/deviations and their decision shall be final.)
Enter N/A if this does not apply
Explanatory Note: The purpose of this form is to request that the District treat as confidential specific information in the Offer that the Offeror or Bidder believes is a trade secret or other proprietary information. All information that is the subject of the request for confidentiality must be designated on the page or pages of the Offer in which it appears. An explanatory statement for the request must be clearly set forth in this form. Additional pages may be attached to the form. The District Representative shall review the statement and provide the determination in writing whether the information shall be protected. If the District Representative determines that the information shall be protected from disclosure, the District Representative shall inform the Bidder or Offeror in writing of such determination. Requests to protect pricing information or the entire Offer from disclosure will be denied.
The Offeror, by the undersigned representative, requests that the specific information, described below and identified on the page or pages of the Offer in which it appears, be treated as confidential information and protected from disclosure to the public.
1. Description of specific information that is the subject of the request.
2. The reason or reasons why the information should be treated as confidential.
Enter N/A if this does not apply
List any subcontractors, instructors, testing partners, certification providers, or other organizations that will assist in performing services under this contract. If none, enter N/A.
List any subcontractors, instructors, testing partners, certification providers, curriculum providers, or other organizations that will assist in performing services under this contract.
For each organization listed, provide:
If no subcontractors or partner organizations will be utilized, enter N/A.
You the Vendor do confirm that your persons, corporation, or company who makes the accompanying Proposal, having first been duly sworn, deposes and says:
That such Proposal is genuine and not sham or collusive, nor made in the interest of, or behalf of, any persons not herein named, and that the Offeror has not directly or indirectly induced or solicited any other Offeror to put in a sham proposal, or any other person, firm or corporation to refrain from offering, and that the Offeror has not in any manner sought by collusion to secure for itself an advantage over any other Offeror.
Please download the below documents, complete, and upload.
Please complete the following downloadable forms and upload them in their respective questions.
Please upload your complete W-9 here
Please upload your complete COI here
The form of contract for any award made as a result of this proposal will be a district purchase order, referencing this bid, which shall be considered a part of the contract. The amount will be based upon the fees shown in the bid, and will take into consideration previous and anticipated expenses for the forthcoming year. If your firm will require the District to sign an additional or separate contract, a copy of the proposal contract must be included with the proposal.
Please Upload your RFP Response HERE. Do NOT including pricing in this area. There will be another place to upload your Cost Proposal.
Please upload your complete COST PROPOSAL here. Please make sure that this information is NOT included in the RFP Response Area.
These questions will be utilized to confirm information you provide
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Please note that if any of the following apply to the Contractor, then the Offeror shall select the “Exempt Contractor” option below:
Pursuant to A.R.S. § 35-394, written certification is required to show that the company entering into a contract with a public entity does not use the forced labor, or any goods or services produced by the forced labor, of ethnic Uyghurs in the People's Republic of China.
Under A.R.S. § 35-394:
1. "Company" means an organization, association, corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, limited liability company or other entity or business association, including a wholly owned subsidiary, majority-owned subsidiary, parent company or affiliate, that engages in for-profit activity and that has ten or more full-time employees.
2. "Public entity" means this State, a political subdivision of this State or an agency, board, commission or department of this State or a political subdivision of this State.
In compliance with A.R.S. §§ 35-394 et seq., all offerors must select one of the following:
If you choose option 3 above please answer the additional question, If you did not please mark Not Applicable.
Indicate which of the following statements applies to the Contractor (may be more than one):
Do you need an Electronic Pricing Table for this solicitation?
Would you like to add an area for the vendor to upload a cost proposal?
Please check all you will require in Special Terms and Conditions
If you click yes this document will be added to attachments
If you click yes, Subcontractors verbiage will be added to Special Requirements and the subcontractors list will be added to attachments.
If you click yes, additional verbiage will be added to special requirements tab
Please choose which insurance requirements you will need for this project
Yes = Acceptable
No = Unacceptable
SLED stands for State, Local, and Education. These are solicitations issued by state governments, counties, cities, school districts, utilities, and higher education institutions — as opposed to federal agencies.
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