What the buyer needs
AI summaryThe Cooperative Council of Governments, on behalf of Equalis Group, seeks cybersecurity products and services under RFP # COG-2192. The required scope covers governing risk management, identifying risks, protecting critical services, detecting attacks, responding to incidents—including retainers, digital forensics, and breach response—and recovering affected assets and operations. Only onshore USA organizations are eligible to bid, and work will be performed both onsite and offsite. Applicants must submit all questions by December 3, 2026, and submit proposals digitally via email or online, including a technical proposal, a separate Excel cost proposal, and required certification forms. The buyer will keep cost proposals sealed and open them only for respondents meeting the minimum technical proposal score threshold. The resulting contract will run for a four-year term, and the winning supplier must execute an administration agreement with Equalis Group after award.
Scope of work
- Govern: Establish, communicate, and monitor cybersecurity risk management strategy, expectations, and policy
- Identify: Develop organizational understanding of cybersecurity risks to systems, people, assets, data, and capabilities
- Protect: Develop and implement safeguards to manage cybersecurity risk and ensure delivery of critical services
- Detect: Develop and implement activities to find and analyze possible cybersecurity attacks and compromises
- Respond: Take action regarding detected cybersecurity incidents, including incident management, analysis, reporting, and mitigation
- Incident response retainers, digital forensics, breach coaching, notification, call center, and credit/identity monitoring
- Recover: Maintain resilience plans and restore assets and operations affected by cybersecurity incidents
Minimum qualifications
- Onshore (USA Organization Only)
- Not debarred, suspended, or otherwise ineligible for federal or Ohio contracts
- Experience Modification Rating not greater than 1.5
- No unresolved findings for recovery under Ohio Revised Code Section 9.24
- Compliance with all federal, state, and local tax filing and payment requirements
- Authorized dealer, reseller, or distributor if not the manufacturer
Documents to include with your response
- Proposal Form 1: Technical Proposal
- Proposal Form 2: Cost Proposal (Attachment B Excel file)
- Proposal Form 3: Diversity Vendor Certification Participation
- Proposal Form 4: Certifications and Licenses
- Proposal Form 5: Unresolved Findings for Recovery
- Proposal Form 6: Mandatory Disclosures
- Proposal Form 7: Dealer, Reseller, and Distributor Authorization
- Proposal Form 8: Mandatory Supplier & Proposal Certifications
- Proposal Form 14: Federal Funds Certification Forms
- Proposal Form 20: Master Agreement Signature Form
How to submit
- Method
- Digital via Email or Online
- Instructions
- Submit Proposal Form 1 (Technical Proposal), Proposal Form 2 (Cost Proposal as separate Attachment B Excel file), and Proposal Forms 3-20.
