2532-61760 Legal Notice for Solid Ground.docx
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- 2532-61760
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- Adams County, Asotin County, Benton County, Chelan County, Clallam County, Clark County, Columbia County, Cowlitz County, Douglas County, Ferry County, Franklin County, Garfield County, Grant County, Grays Harbor County, Island County, Jefferson County, King County, Kitsap County, Kittitas County, Klickitat County, Lewis County, Lincoln County, Mason County, Okanogan County, Pacific County, Pend Oreille County, Pierce County, San Juan County, Skagit County, Skamania County, Snohomish County, Spokane County, Stevens County, Thurston County, Wahkiakum County, Walla Walla County, Whatcom County, Whitman County, Yakima County, Asotin City, Clarkston City, Clarkston Heights-Vineland CDP, West Clarkston-Highland CDP, Benton City, Chelan City, Chelan Falls CDP, Clallam Bay CDP, Lewisville CDP, Rock Island City, Pacific Beach CDP, Whidbey Island Station CDP, Mercer Island City, Pacific City, Bainbridge Island City, Kingston CDP, Kitsap Lake CDP, Kittitas City, Klickitat CDP, Okanogan City, Anderson Island CDP, Fort Lewis CDP, Fox Island CDP, Herron Island CDP, Ketron Island CDP, North Fort Lewis CDP, Raft Island CDP, Stevenson City, Hat Island CDP, Lake Stevens City, Snohomish City, Spokane City, Spokane Valley City, Puget Island CDP, Garfield Town, Yakima City, Washington
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This is a Sole Source Posting from the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) for a contract with Solid Ground Washington (dba Statewide Poverty Network). The contract, valued at $56,861, will run for approximately two months starting on or after June 16, 2025, and focuses on providing leadership and coordination for a community assembly planning grant in rural Washington. The primary objectives include implementing up to two Community Assemblies in a rural part of the state, facilitating partnerships between policy experts, legislators, nonprofits, and low-income individuals, and supporting the Community Compensation Distribution awarded by the Office of Equity.
Vendors are required to submit capability statements within ten working days of the announcement, demonstrating their ability to lead nonprofits in implementing the Just Futures Community Assembly model, compensate lived experts according to Office of Equity standards, and bring diverse stakeholders together to co-create solutions to the state's most pressing problems. The contract is being pursued as a sole source award, with Solid Ground Washington selected based on their existing experience facilitating community assembly processes in urban and rural areas and their current work conducting listening sessions in rural communities. The ultimate goal is to inform policy, program, and budget decisions while leveraging public-private partnerships.
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| 2532-61760 Sole Source Justification.docx | DOCX document | |
| Contract 2532-61760 Solid Ground.docx | DOCX document |
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STATE OF WASHINGTON
Department of Social and Health Services
SOLE SOURCE POSTING
May 20, 2025
The Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) contemplates awarding a sole source contract to Solid Ground Washington (doing business as (dba)) Statewide Poverty Network to provide leadership and coordination of a community assembly planning grant for rural Washington & provide Community Compensation Distribution. The purpose of this Contract is to establish the terms and conditions under which the Contractor works with DSHS, and other state and community partners, to plan for the implementation of up to two (2) Community Assemblies in a rural part of the State of Washington. The findings will be used by DSHS and other stakeholders to inform policy, program, and budget decisions as well as to leverage the public-private partnerships that are available for this work. The activity of Community Compensation Distribution has been awarded by the Office of Equity to the Economic Justice Alliance to compensate the lived experts who have actively participated in the Alliance.
The Contractor must have experience facilitiating this community assembly process in both urban and rural areas AND have experience with compensation of lived experts with low-incomes. Solid Ground Washington dba Statewide Poverty Network currenly holds listening sessions in rural communities and has the capacity and resources to bolster these sessions to talk about the assembly model which goes even deeper into relational partnership that leads to either policy, program or budgetary outcomes.
DSHS will enter into a two-month contract with Solid Ground Washington dba Statewide Poverty Network. The contract, with a projected value of $56,861 will be issued on or after June 16, 2025 and will continue for approximately two months with no further amendment extensions.
Vendors contemplating the above requirements are required to submit capability statements detailing their ability to meet the state’s requirements within ten (10) working days of this announcement.
Capability statements should address the following state requirements:
1. Participation in leading nonprofits to implement the Just Futures Community Assembly model.
2. Ability to compensate lived experts according to Office of Equity standards and compliance needs.
3. Ability to bring policy experts, legislators, nonprofits, and those with low incomes to a table to co-create solutions to the state’s most pressing problems.
In the absence of other qualified sources, it is the state’s intent to make a sole source award for this contract.
To submit capability statements or for questions, contact:
| Contact Name: | James O’Brien, Contracts Counsel, DSHS | |
| E-mail: | james.obrien2@dshs.wa.gov | |
| Phone: | 360-664-6055 |
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