Career, Technical, Workforce Training and Employment Services

The government authority located in Boston, Massachusetts is seeking career, technical, workforce training, and employment services for youth in residential and community settings. The agency is trying to reduce recidivism, lower employment barriers, and improve transition opportunities for youth returning to the community from residential treatment programs. To solve these challenges, the agency wants to implement an enhanced, comprehensive workforce development model that builds academic, technical, and employability skills leading to meaningful employment in high-demand regional jobs. The scope of work covers high-quality career, technical, workforce training, and employment programs designed and operated as small, entrepreneurial businesses that help youth build workforce competencies, skills, and experience along with a wage. The agency is developing a broad network of career, vocational, and employability services under its recent skill up initiative and wishes to regularly examine needs and add to this network. The requested services must build employer partnerships, reduce access and engagement barriers, and provide youth with transferable skills, pro-social behaviors, and credentials that enable them to secure and advance in employment with family-sustaining wages. Eligible entities include vocational and higher education institutions, unions, businesses, nonprofit organizations, community-based organizations, and other entities. Bidders must be onshore USA organizations only. The agency requires the performance of the work to be offsite. The agency is looking for proposals to establish the budget for this initiative. Bidders must submit their responses digitally via email or online. The source document does not specify evaluation criteria or key dates for this opportunity.