MCC RFP 202701

Morgan Community College, a rural Colorado community college within the Colorado Community College System serving an 11,500-square-mile service area across five campuses in northeastern Colorado, is requesting proposals for consulting services to develop a comprehensive Strategic Enrollment Plan under RFP MCC-RFP-202701, with proposals due October 1, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. MST.

The scope includes facilitating discovery and data collection to establish key performance indicators and enrollment baselines; developing strategy action plans with timelines and ROI projections; prioritizing strategies through stakeholder engagement; implementing solutions through annual and multi-year playbooks; and delivering final documentation and training. Required deliverables are a customized enrollment strategic plan, playbooks with prioritized action plans and benchmarks, enrollment projections with recommended milestones, and recommendations for continued data analysis. The consultant will have direct access to raw historic applicant and student data from Recruit, Banner, and EAB Navigate 360 systems and will lead the establishment of an internal Strategic Enrollment Management Council with the college. MCC expects post-delivery support for implementation, monitoring, and change management, which may be itemized separately in the cost proposal. The college anticipates completing most deliverables by late summer or fall 2027 with no rigid institutional deadlines.

The contract is anticipated to begin in November 2026. The offeror must demonstrate experience with strategic enrollment planning for higher education institutions, propose the number of in-person site visits required with optional per-visit itemization, and provide a detailed cost proposal by project phases or lump sum, wage schedules for hourly or piecemeal work, and reimbursable expenses. All work must comply with Colorado accessibility requirements and Level AA Web Content Accessibility Guidelines standards. Certificate of liability insurance naming Morgan Community College and the State of Colorado as insured parties with minimum $1,000,000 per occurrence coverage and a W-9 form are required submissions.

Evaluation criteria: Qualifications & Experience of Offeror (15 points), Qualification & Experience of Personnel (15 points), Understanding of Project and Diverse Student Populations (15 points), Approach to Project (15 points), Plan to Implement Solutions (15 points), References (10 points), and Price Proposal (15 points). The deadline for written inquiries was September 10, 2026. The anticipated Intent to Award publication date is October 16, 2026.