Recruitment and Retention Services

The Region IX Education Cooperative in Ruidoso, New Mexico, is seeking a vendor to provide recruitment and retention services to scale the educator pipeline and strengthen institutional ecosystems. The agency is trying to solve teacher shortage challenges by recruiting high school juniors and seniors, lower-division college students, and community college candidates into accredited Educator Preparation Programs and facilitating their seamless transition through to full teacher licensure. The project covers delivering specialized professional development, ensuring data-driven accountability, targeting enrollment, and engaging with Career Technical Service Organizations. The scope of work also requires strategic geographic reach, high-needs specialization, tracking training completion rates, reporting, communication, staffing, logistics, and evaluation. Eligible bidders must be onshore organizations based in the United States. The agency requires the performance of the work to be conducted offsite. The agency is looking for budget proposals from bidders to determine the cost of the project. Evaluation criteria will focus on the vendor's ability to meet the specified recruitment, retention, and reporting requirements. The deadline for submitting questions regarding this opportunity was June 3, 2026.