What the buyer needs
AI summaryValley Water seeks a vendor to provide offsite recruitment services for its operations in San Jose, California. The requested scope includes full-cycle recruitment, candidate sourcing and outreach, executive search, specialized recruitment for difficult-to-fill and technical roles, talent pipeline development, screening, background checks, labor market research, workforce planning, and ad hoc recruitment consulting across classified, unclassified, executive, management, professional, technical, administrative, supervisory, and skilled trades positions. Only onshore U.S. organizations are eligible to bid, and proposers may submit responses digitally via email or online. Applicants must submit all questions by November 25, 2026. An authorized representative with authority to bind the proposer must sign all required proposal documents. Proposers must also include any written exceptions or modifications to the RFP, sample Agreement for Services, or insurance requirements with their proposal, as Valley Water is currently seeking proposals without a stated budget.
Scope of work
- Full-cycle recruitment services for classified, unclassified, executive, management, professional, technical, administrative, supervisory, and skilled trades positions
- Recruitment support and candidate sourcing fee services
- Executive search and specialized recruitment for difficult-to-fill and technical positions
- Talent pipeline development, candidate screening, assessment, and interview and selection support
- Background and reference checks
- Labor market research and analysis
- Recruitment process evaluation, improvement, program audits, and workforce and succession planning
- Ad Hoc recruitment consulting services
Minimum qualifications
- Onshore (US Organization Only)
- Minimum of three (3) former clients and representative projects from the last five (5) years
Documents to include with your response
- Technical Proposal
- Exceptions List
- Key Personnel & Subconsultants Form (MS Word, tables only, no resumes)
- Affidavit Small Business Enterprise Outreach Program
- Local Business Enterprise Consideration
- Non-Collusion Declaration
- Conflict of Interest Disclosure
- Preliminary Project Schedule (or state NA if On-Call)
- Client References (three separate MS Word files)
- Cost Proposal (MS Excel as a separate file)
How to submit
- Method
- Digital via Email or Online
- Instructions
- Upload all RFP Required Submittal Documents as separate files per RFP Sections 3.3, 3.4, and 3.5.
