On-Call Professional Services to Support the City of Rancho Cordova Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program

The City of Rancho Cordova, Community Development Department is soliciting request for proposals for on-call On Call Professional Services to Support the City of Rancho Cordova Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program.

Introduction

The City of Rancho Cordova (“City”) is soliciting proposals from experienced and qualified consultants (“Consultant” or “Firm”) to provide professional services in support of the City’s Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program and other federally funded housing and community development programs administered by the City, including but not limited to the HOME Investment Partnerships (HOME) Program. The City receives annual entitlement funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and seeks consultant support to ensure compliant and effective program implementation.

Through this Request for Proposals (RFP), the City intends to establish a pool of qualified consultants to provide on-call, as-needed services, with assignments issued on a task order or work order basis. Services may include, but are not limited to, planning, regulatory compliance, environmental review, subrecipient monitoring, public services oversight, capital project administration, housing program support, and preparation of HUD-required documentation.

Project Details

• Department: Community Development
• Department Head: Darcy Goulart (Community Development Director)

Important Dates

• Questions Due: 2026-04-28T00:00:00.000Z

Evaluation Criteria

• Firm Qualifications & Experience with CDBG, HOME, and other HUD-Funded Programs (25 pts)
• Experience working with California/Sacramento Region Jurisdictions (15 pts)
• Staff Expertise and Professional Qualifications (25 pts)
• Proposed Approach and Ability to Meet City Needs (20 pts)
• Clarity, Organization, and Completeness of Submission (5 pts)
• Cost/Rate Schedule (10 pts)

Submission Requirements

• Complete Proposal (required) —

  Please Upload your COMPLETE Proposal here. 

• Proposal Without Cost (required) —

  Please Upload your proposal WITHOUT ANY COST INFORMATION here. You will be prompted to upload your Cost Information in another location.

  NOTE: Including Cost Information in your upload here may cause your proposal to be deemed non-responsive.

• Separate Cost File (required) —

  The fees/costs portion of your proposal should NOT be attached and uploaded with the rest of your Proposal. All cost/fees/pricing schedule information should be attached separately HERE.

  NOTE: Failure to upload your cost information in the proper manner may cause your proposal to be deemed non-responsive.

• Additional Information (if needed) —

  For any additional information requested or required by any of your provided answers please upload that additional documentation here.

• Proposer Confirmation (required) —

  By confirming here and submitting a proposal, Proposer confirms their authority (and has uploaded necessary documentation proving such) to execute this Proposal in its entirety as submitted and enter into a contract on behalf of the Company Name stated in said Proposal. Such confirmation will be understood as certification by the Proposer that they have completely read and understand this Request For Proposals in its entirety including any and all Addenda released prior to the time of submittal.

• Basic Project Description (required) —

  What is the goal of this procurement? Complete the following sentence:

  The City of Rancho Cordova, <DEPARTMENT NAME> Department is soliciting request for proposals for _____________. 

  NOTE: Do not worry about the Department Name, that will be added on its own, just type into the box as if completing the highlighted area.

• Electronic Pricing (required) —

  Do you wish to use the electronic pricing table available within OpenGov to collect pricing/cost information for this RFP? This does not prevent the use of a cost breakdown file to further expand on pricing provided or to receive pricing for additional services.

• Cost File Submittal (required) —

  If you are requiring Proposers to submit a cost breakdown or pricing information either instead of or in addition to the use of the electronic pricing table, would you like to require said cost information be submitted separately from the rest of the proposal?

  Typically this is done to allow evaluators to see proposals without seeing cost or without it being a factor in the initial evaluation of proposals.

• Proposal Page Limit (required) —

  What is the maximum number of pages that you wish to state as the limit for proposals?

• Federal Funding (required) —

  Is this a federally funded project?

• DBE Goal (required) —

  You have indicated that this is a federally funded project. What is the DBE Goal in % ?

  Do NOT INCLUDE the % sign. Simply state the numeric value.