RFI 27-004 - Project Search Employment Training Partner

Request for Information Issued: October 9, 2026 Response Deadline: October 28, 2026 Procurement Officer: Dorothy Tauaese-Puletapuai Description: Through this Request for Information (RFI), the Alaska Governor's Council on Disabilities and Education (GCDSE) is seeking information from qualified disability services organizations that provide employment training services to fill the separate instructor and skills training staff roles at an identified potential new Project SEARCH adult or non-school district enrolled student site. For this RFI the specific site development is focused on an adult based program, where the interns are no longer enrolled in school or have graduated, and there would be no school district partner unlike typical school district or youth-based Project SEARCH site models. Responses to this Request for Information (RFI) are for informational purposes only. This RFI does not extend any rights to prospective vendors or obligate the State to conduct a solicitation or purchase any goods or services. Please see attached for further details. This notice governs the ownership, return, and disclosure of any respondent or other record a respondent submits in response to this Request for Information. (Herein, any reference to "Record" includes all such records and the offer; any reference to "Law" includes any federal or State of Alaska (State) law, including any court or administrative order or rule.) 1. All Records belong to the State. 2. The State has sole discretion regarding whether to return any Record. In exercising this discretion, the State will comply with all Laws. 3. Unless a notice of intent to award is issued, the State will, to the extent permitted by Law, consider all Records confidential and not subject to the Alaska Public Records Act (APRA). 4. If, and when a notice of intent to award is issued, the State will consider nonconfidential any Record unless, at the time of submission, the respondent undertook the following protective measures: a. Marked information confidential; b. For any information marked confidential, identified the authority that makes that specific information confidential; and c. Committed, in writing, to explain in detail, including with affidavits and briefs, why each authority applies in any court or administrative proceeding in which any nondisclosure is challenged. 5. If the respondent did not undertake each protective measure, the State will not consider any information in a Record confidential: the State will disclose the entire Record without any redaction in response to an APRA or other request or, if it chooses, in the absence of a request and the State will disclose the entire Record without notifying the bidder. 6. If the respondent undertook each protective measure, the State will withhold the information marked confidential to the following extent: a. The State agrees that the Law protects the information; and b. If the nondisclosure is challenged, the respondent fulfills its commitment to explain, including with affidavits and briefs, how each authority applies to the information marked confidential. 7. The State will only notify the respondent of a request for the Record and of a planned release if the respondent undertook each protective measure, but the State disagrees that the marked information is protected. If there is such a disagreement, then before releasing the Record, the State will, to the extent permitted by Law and practicable, notify the respondent that it will disclose the information unless the respondent convinces the State not to or obtain an order prohibiting disclosure.