About this opportunity
AI summaryThe buyer requires administrative structure and organizational effectiveness review services for a government authority in Indiana. The selected vendor must establish a current-state baseline, assess organizational effectiveness, evaluate service-delivery choices, clarify roles, identify efficiency and investment opportunities, and develop an actionable implementation plan. Performance of the work will take place onsite. Only onshore USA-based vendors are eligible to bid on this opportunity. Vendors can submit their responses digitally through email or online, and the buyer is looking for proposals to determine the budget. Interested bidders must submit all questions no later than October 16, 2026. The resulting contract period will run for one year.
Buyer and opportunity details
- Client
- INDIANA UNIVERSITY PURCHASING DEPARTMENT
Scope of work
- Phase I: Current-State Diagnostic
- Phase II: Future-State Operating Model and Organizational Recommendations
- Phase III: Implementation Roadmap
- Optional Phase IV: Implementation Support
- Kickoff and detailed workplan deliverable
- Current-state organizational baseline deliverable
- Final recommendations deliverable
- Executive presentation and underlying analytic files deliverables
How proposals are evaluated
| Criterion | Weight / scoring |
|---|---|
| Methodology, analytic rigor, benchmarking capabilities, and stakeholder approach | Not specified |
| Relevant academic medicine/organizational redesign experience (client references) | Not specified |
| Quality, seniority, and availability of the proposed team members | Not specified |
| Implementation experience and change management capability and approach | Not specified |
| Overall value and pricing | Not specified |
| Understanding of the assignment and fit with IUSM's guiding principles | Not specified |
| Acceptance of terms & conditions | Not specified |
Minimum qualifications
- Significant experience with organizational design, operating-model design, spans/layers, service-delivery models, and large-scale organizational transformation.
- Direct experience with academic medical centers, schools of medicine, research universities, faculty practice environments, and/or complex health systems.
- Ability to integrate academic, research, clinical, administrative, and enterprise considerations.
- Strong quantitative organizational analytics and benchmarking capabilities, with transparent methodology and appropriate peer selection.
- Experience evaluating centralized, decentralized, and shared-service models and distinguishing structural efficiency from simple headcount reduction.
- Change-management, implementation-planning, and benefits-realization capability.
- A senior team that will remain substantively engaged throughout the project.
Documents to include with your response
- Authorized Representative and Company Information
- Executive Summary and Understanding of the Assignment
- Relevant Experience and Qualifications including 3 client references from the past 3 to 5 years
- Proposed Approach and Methodology
- Benchmarking Approach
- Stakeholder Engagement and Change Approach
- Proposed Project Team details and staffing commitments
- Subcontractor information (if applicable)
- Workplan, Timeline, and Deliverables
- Detailed Pricing Proposal by phase
Key dates
- Request for Proposal issued
- 9/30
- Participants' questions due
- 10/16 5:00 pm Eastern Time
- Email response or status of response provided
- 10/23 5:00 pm
- Proposals due
- 11/20 5:00 pm Eastern Time
- Remote or on-site presentations
- 12/4
- Selection of supplier
- 12/11
- Beginning of work
- January 2027
How to submit
- Method
- Digitally via Email or Online via JAGGAER Supplier Portal
- Instructions
- Responses must be submitted no later than 5:00 p.m. (EST-Indiana) on November 20, 2026. All questions must be submitted via the JAGGAER Supplier Portal Q&A Board.
Contract details
- Term
- One year
- Place of performance
- Onsite in Indiana